Can vegans drink beer, eat pasta (whole-wheat or regular), or chocolate?

Question

Just curious. I am considering becoming vegan. I'm just starting to cut out foods. I cannot do it all at once but I think it's great for the environment and our health.

Answer 1

Yes vegans can drink beer. But a lot of beers/wines/ liquors are processed with/ or contain animal ingredients. For example, sometimes they use Isinglass (made from a fish) as a clearing agent in the beer or wine, or bone char to filter the liquor... other times the beer contains actual animal ingredients. I recently asked a question about beer (I found some vegan beer lists, but no good ones that included smaller brewery beers that I like, Yards/ Yuengling/ Lionshead/ Stegmeier.) Some one gave me this link, and it seemed like the best...
http://www.veganporn.com/booze.pl
**If you don't see the beer on there that you want, you could always try to contact the company, the beer breweries are usually more cooperative than certain food companies... I've never had a problem with them...

You'll have to get into the habit of reading the ingredient labels on foods... A lot of pastas are vegan, but some contain eggs, just check the ingredients (oh and be on the lookout for hidden animal ingredients) Here is a list of animal ingredients...
http://www.peta.com/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=72
(and just a hint, if you are not sure about a certain ingredient, just be safe and stay away from it...like "natural flavors")
***You could call/e mail the company and ask them about it though, they may give you a hard time... just tell them that you are allergic to all meats/ dairy/ eggs/ anything else you can think of that is not vegan... they might be more cooperative that way...I'm not sure though... I just always lie to them and tell them that I have severe food allergies...they should have to tell you whether the "natural flavor" contains any of that stuff.

And chocolate usually has some kind of dairy in it... you could just buy vegan chocolate online... If that is what you want to do.
I've heard that this online store has good chocolate:
http://www.veganstore.com/
-or- you could try this one
http://store.foodfightgrocery.com/index.html
(****Thank you GreenGhost...he discovered this one, but I just had to include it :)
Good luck.

Answer 2

"Can" would be an incorrect word here, as we all can do whatever we want; we just choose to do certain things and not do certain things.

Most beers are vegan. Refer to the list above.

Most pasta is vegan (check for eggs).

And chocolate is vegan. It's funny that people say chocolate has cow milk in it. Chocolate comes from cocao beans, a plant. If someone chooses to add cow milk to it, that does not make chocolate itself non-vegan. Look for Equal Exchange fair-trade organic dark chocolate with almonds - it's great!

Answer 3

Beer- many beers are vegan, but some are not. See this list:
http://www.veganconnection.com/veganbeer.htm

pasta- Most pasta is ok, but some contains egg (egg noodles and some Asian noodles.) Also some might be filled with cheese. Finally avoid pastas colored by squid ink.

Chocolate- chocolate itself is vegan, but you will often see milk added to it in products. You can find vegan candy bars, and for baking most stores have dairy-free chocolate chips. Cocoa powder should be fine.

Answer 4

there is vegan chocolate..just google it....

and a lot of health food stores will carry it.....

Answer 5

Yes, yes, and no. No chocolate....because there's milk in it. A vegan doesn't eat animal or animal by-products(eggs,cheese,milk). You should definitely study up on it before you start! Have fun:) Learn to cook for yourself.

Answer 6

pasta - yes
chocolote - no because of the milk
beer - im pretty sure you can

Answer 7

you can do whatever you want. There are true vegans and there are fake vegans.