FabSwingers.com forum: Vegans Fooled

By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Over one third of products in the UK labelled as vegan contain animal products according to a new scientific report. The reason is blamed on the fact that no legal definition of vegan food has been agreed by producers and authorities. So a manufacturer can call it's produce vegan even when it has animal products in it. In short, vegans have been fooled and have lied to and there's not a damn thing they an do about it. What's going on here. It's all over the news

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How do vegans feel about eating food grown with fertilisers containing things like blood & bone, chicken feather meal, fish, and other by-products or in soils where there are animals like insects and others living and dying? The backbone of sustainable organic "circle of life" farming. Those nutrients are being directly incorporated into the food being consumed. When we get preached to and accosted by the vocal minority crusader types that question stumps them immediately.

Anyone can choose to consume the diet they feel fits best with their personal convictions and we support that personal choice 10000000%!

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By *r WhispererMan
over a year ago

brynmawr

Anything that has tires metal bearings or an lcd screen uses beef products in its production. How many so called vegans drive fly cycle or have a phone or tv?

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By *icolerobbieCouple
over a year ago

walsall

The only ones fooled were the ones buying processed crap.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This thread sounds like a reason to bash on vegans for no reason. How about let people live their lives according to how they want and their own preferences as long as they aren't hurting anyone. Novel concept, I know but might just allow some people to get a fucking grip

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a vegan many years ago. Way before there were plant based options everywhere. It was this mindset that eventually made me Jack it all in after 8 years. I just thought it's like trying to hold back the tide. However, in that time animal testing on cosmetics ended, fox hunting was made illegal (yes, we know you rich scumbag cunts still do it though) and Animal fats and gelatine were removed from everyday food items like biscuits and sweets. If people genuinely want to be "the difference in the world that they want to see" then good for them. I find those pricks that bang on about being vegan whilst eating a mackky Ds bean burger.

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By *ee04Man
over a year ago

Essex

I’d good is being sold as vegan. This by definition should be food containing no animal products, (noun

a person who does not eat any food derived from animals and who typically does not use other animal products).

If it contains animal products. Then surely it contravenes the trade descriptions act 2011.

I am not a vegan or vegetarian. However I respect others right to choose for themselves.

I feel I’d this is a loophole in the law it needs to be closed. Just look at the Hue and Cry over the horse meat scandal. I mean people will quite happily eat Ermentrude but object to eating Mr Ed.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

"This thread sounds like a reason to bash on vegans for no reason. How about let people live their lives according to how they want and their own preferences as long as they aren't hurting anyone. Novel concept, I know but might just allow some people to get a fucking grip

It may well turn into that but I think the OP was saying more about the fact that there is no legal standard at present and as a consequence people who wish to choose vegan products are being shafted with little redress.

I am not a vegan myself but would be pretty hacked off if I were and found I had been inadvertently purchasing products that I believed in good faith were compatible with my lifestyle choice, only to find it was not the case.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Vegans .......... hmmmmmmmm

Veganism is not a religion.

Non meat eaters are not necessarily vegan.

I am not THAT vegan or THE OTHER vegan I'm THIS vegan and I don't give a fuck what you eat ....

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

There doesn’t need to be a ‘legal standard’. If it contains animal derived food stuffs then it’s not vegan. If it contains things not listed on the label then it’s also putting people with allergies who buy vegan options to avoid diary and eggs at serious risk.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

People with deadly allergies were also fooled. Haha, sucks to be them?

People should be able to figure out what they eat and have it be what they want.

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By *uckMan
over a year ago

Scunthorpe DN15

Let them eat cake in their leather shoes and woollen Christmas jumpers.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"I’d good is being sold as vegan. This by definition should be food containing no animal products, (noun

a person who does not eat any food derived from animals and who typically does not use other animal products).

If it contains animal products. Then surely it contravenes the trade descriptions act 2011.

I am not a vegan or vegetarian. However I respect others right to choose for themselves.

I feel I’d this is a loophole in the law it needs to be closed. Just look at the Hue and Cry over the horse meat scandal. I mean people will quite happily eat Ermentrude but object to eating Mr Ed.

As an aside, we once had a pet chicken called Ermintrude

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

It is morally repugnant that people have been deceived on such as alarming level. If nothing else, it highlights the extent to which food producers, at a minimum, should not be trusted to self-regulate. It highlights too, the wrongs of shrinking the state, such as during austerity, for ideological reasons.

Whenever you hear of 'cutting red tape', you can be certain that standards will plummet, to the detriment of the ordinary person.

Where food is not even labelled vegetarian but instead 'vegan', it should not contain any material that is of animal origin. It is sickening that so many people have been deceived to such an extraordinary extent.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Surely this could lead to a big lawsuit..?

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By *AYENCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

"Let them eat cake in their leather shoes and woollen Christmas jumpers."

Vegans might eat cake but they don't wear wool or leather, not even at Christmas

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By *ts the taking part thatMan
over a year ago

southampton

"Let them eat cake in their leather shoes and woollen Christmas jumpers.

Vegans might eat cake but they don't wear wool or leather, not even at Christmas

They don't know what they are missing.

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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

The big business have exploited a loophole and conned the most vulnerable..

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