question about milk?

Question

ok so i found some cheese made by Horizon that is rennet free. as a vegetarian i thought this was suitable but recently i noticed that it contains d3 which the internet says comes from animals . so what is the point of even making vegetarian cheese if they are going to put animal products in it? it doesnt make any sense , does this make sense to anyone?

Answer 1

D-3 is *always* animal based, Horizon says that their D-3 is vegetarian because D-3 comes from lanolin (which doesn't directly involve the death of an animal), totally ignoring that most of the chinese D-3 entering the US IS made from slaughterhouse trash and not from lanolin washed off sheared wool (they get more money selling that to cosmetics companies).

Does it make sense? To the companies it does! They get some extra profit with very little risk of lawsuit and NO risk of regulatory action. Even if they lose a lawsuit (like McDonald's did) the damages don't exceed the profit they made! Besides the 8th Continent (that VeggieTart cited) I can think of quite a few other companies that pull garbage like this.

Never forget that a company's FIRST obligation is to make a profit for the shareholders/owners! Everything else is secondary, EVERYTHING.

Edit:

Be VERY leery of companies telling you their ingredients are synthetic and not an animal ingredient! It's a common way for them to 'allay your fears' and keep selling you their stuff. In the case of D-3 it is considered to be "Synthetic D-3" and NOT animal based D-3 when 'purified' slaughterhouse junk is blasted with ultraviolet light to synthesize D-3 in the goo! Why? Because there was no D-3 in the junk until it was bombarded with UV light. Therefore the D-3 is synthetic and not of animal origin.

Answer 2

If it's vegan cheese as I suspect I think you worded it wrong I'd call the company and ask them if the d3 is vegan friendly.

If your just a vegetarian that focuses on getting rid of things like rennet. Can't help ya. Cows milk is considered vegetarian but it's still not right. That cow doesn't make that milk naturally. It has to have a baby every year to produce milk. To me it's considered wrong and why you would want to get rid of the rennet but not the milk itself baffles me. Sorry. That rennet is just as bad as the cows milk.

VEGAN cheese having rennet or some other animal byproduct in it makes not the tiniest bit of sense to me.

Answer 3

Vitamin D2 is sometimes vegan, but D3 never is. It's usually derived from lanolin. And lanolin (as well as wool) can sometimes be a slaughterhouse byproduct.

I would also warn the poster who suggested soy cheese that many brands contain casein, a dairy protein.

What's really whack is that 8th Continent Soymilk has D3 in it. I guess they're going for the lactose-intolerant market (like the Tofutti company), not the vegan market.

Answer 4

Does it matter? Dairy cows are treated terribly and their male calves are turned into veal. You do know that veal only exists because of the surplus of calves from the dairy industry (you know, because cows only give milk if they've just had a baby). The whole idea of breeding, and keeping penned up, gentle animals purely so we can drink their milk...why? No other animal drinks milk into adulthood. Certainly no other animal drinks the milk of another kind of animal. It's just weird. And have you seen the conditions most dairy cows are kept in? They suck them so dry they end up only living something like four years. And then they kill them as inhumanely as they do animals in the meat industry. At least the animals being killed for meat get to go to pasture for most of their lives. Dairy cows don't. Even "organic" dairy only means the cows have to get some sunlight for a few hours a day. Anyway, my point is, if none of that bothers you and you still want to drink milk/eat cheese/consume dairy products, then what does it matter where a little "d3" comes from?

Answer 5

I m lactose intolerant so I use soy mik. There is soy cheese maybe you could try that. Im new to all this vegetarian stuff and still finding my way around.

Answer 6

Vitamin D3 (as cholecalciferol) is usually derived from either lanolin (sheep's wool), animal hides or fish oil.

Answer 7

the milk in your cheese comes from animals.hm. its all an animal product.

Answer 8

not all d3 contains bits of animal, recently there has been many different ways to make it veggie freindly, if it has the logo then it has to be veggie (including all ingredience), its a legal requirement

Answer 9

No....
Most things will have some sort of animal bi product in them.
Being preservitives or similar.