Comments on: Buyer Beware: Animal Fat Lurks in These 7 Common ‘Vegetarian’ Foods

By: kTHERINE BONAVENTURA

kTHERINE BONAVENTURA — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:20:45 +0000

Ive been trying to buy only cheese from organically farmed ‘happy’ cows, as the cows from normal farms are over milked all day so their udders are too heavy and bursting. but weve genetically modified all the cows around today to produce way too much milk (cheese) anyway, which is why my mate buys vegan cheese, but ahh soya alternatives mean over farming of soya, which destroys ever growing areas of rainforest, but probably we can learn to be more renewable with farming, ive switched to soya milk. best thing you can do is get 2 chickens for your eggs if youve got a garden (theyre v easy to keep and they mainly eat worms and crap in the grass), and look in skips, then you can eat whatever because its getting thrown out, go at night find the tescos sainsburys whatever skip is local to you and forage every day, also vegetable markets just after they close throw lots of veg away every day, its quite shocking when you get into skipping how much good food is chucked.

By: J. Lynne

J. Lynne — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:33:10 +0000

@Kelly — Whose mashed Potatoes are you eating? I’ve never known anyone who uses oil in mashed potato preparation and I’m originally from the South.

By: Carla

Carla — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:11:18 +0000

I assume people are vegetarian for health reasons. Why would you eat junk food anyway? I’m not veg, but you would never see me NEAR candy and ice cream (maybe Coconut Bliss – but that’s even rare).

By: kelly

kelly — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:33:11 +0000

Excellent post! There’s 2 more that vegetarians (or vegans) need to be aware of:
1. Honey (has bee stomach compounds) and
2. Mashed potato (has deep-fried oil often used for frying chicken or other meat) are also non-vegetarian foods.

I replace meat with fresh coconut flesh. Vegetarian food is very exciting with nuts, sprouts and vege like romaine lettuce and yellow capsicum, olives, etc.

Quinoa seeds can be rice alternative or used to make fruit puddings. There are also many different spices and herbs that i’ve not tried with raw and cooked dishes too. Vege meals are actually very exciting!

Prof T Collin Campbells (of the China Study) proved meat’s protein is cancer-causing. Even more so when you try to cook meat with vege oil (heated vege oil is trans-fat). I urge vegetarians to switch to more stable and safe coconut oil but choose your oil wisely.

By: Lora K.

Lora K. — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:15:30 +0000

Take heart — on some of these, there are vegetarian alternatives. Calcium Stereate can be vegetable derived. Smarties, the American candy called Smarties anyway, uses calcium stereate that’s vegetable derived.

I DEFINITELY wish there were stricter rules on labeling. Especially if erring on the side of vegetarian caution means missing out on some of my childhood faves.

By: Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Caitlin Fitzsimmons — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:05:34 +0000

I think there are two sides to this. If you’re vegetarian and determined to cut out all meat, then it’s obviously concerning. I think it’s appalling that they don’t have to list their ingredients clearly. But if you eat meat, surely it’s a good thing if the by-products are used? I believe meat eaters should practice nose-to-tail eating so that none of the animal gets wasted.

By: lUANNE

lUANNE — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:20:54 +0000

Great post, Tina! It is really gross to think about how cows are used in food production. There just has to be a better way.

By: Amy DuFault

Amy DuFault — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:23:43 +0000

Thanks for completely depressing me!
No rest from this life!

By: Christine Vivian

Christine Vivian — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:47:20 +0000

Thank you so much for this information. I knew about lard and rennet, but the others were a surprise to me. If only companies were required to list the sources of these ingredients!

By: Tammi

Tammi — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:56:31 +0000

Wow, thanks for this info. How depressing this newfound knowledge. I make my own chocolate using coconut oil, raw cacao powder and other ingredients so at least I’m safe there.