What's Going on with Vegitarianism and Vegitarianism?

United States
August 13, 2009 9:29am CST
honestly, for some reason the meaning of the words keep on changing, first vegitarians were people who didn't eat any animal products, including milk and eggs, then too many people started calling themselves vegitarian even though they only didn't eat meat, so true vegitarians changed the name to vegan. And what do i see now? Vegan chese has milk protein in it? i went out yesterday to have a diner, they have vegan bar there and every dish lists exactly what they use to make it, one of the vegan dishes had dry milk in it, not so vegan if it has milk is it? Seriously, many vegans don't concume dairy because they don't like how cows are treated, but there is product made from the same milk that is added to vegan food? I can't even begin to tell you how much of a pain it is to stand in the isle with vegan chese and read every label just to find out that out of 20 vegan cheses they have, only 1-2 don't have milk protein. recently i also found out that meat industry made it's way into veganism and vegitarianism by making natural flavours made from meat, they add it to vegan and vegitarian food and keep calling it vegan and vegitarian, these additives are not even listed as meat based in the ingredients, it just named as natural flavour. Honestly, if people want to cut out animal products out of their diet, why trick them into eating these products anyway? why add things that people don't want in their food? I'm very concerned about this mainly because it makes my life very complicated, i want to be able to go to the store and buy vegan food and be sure it really is vegan. Same as i want to buy organic food and know that it really is organic (yes, some companies label their non organic produce as organic even though they spray it with perstcides that are not on the list of organic perticides)What is more simple then to label food with the proper label? doesn't it make sence that when you buy something it should be exactly what it says it is? Honestly, if you have an issue with a sertain food but the producer of this food tricks you into buying it anyway, how fair is that? why do they think it's ok to do it us, concumers? I'm actually really agrivated right now because i wanted to make vegan pizza and didn't have cheese, my boyfriend went out to buy cheese and when he brought it home, this vegan cheese had milk proteins in it. He had to go back and exchange it for another one.
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• United States
14 Aug 09
I had that same thing happen; I had bought some soy cheese, and ate it and then realized it had casein in it, and I had to regurgitate it. It is very misleading. I will only eat what has the certified vegan logo on it, AFTER checking the label twice.
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• United States
14 Aug 09
lol yes, i check labels all the time now, it's so frustrating to see that people who make vegan food do something like this. i only buy cheese in this one healthy food store, everyone who works there is vegitarian and vegan, so they always try to get the best product, but they just got sold to a new owner, so things are already changing in vegan section :(
• United States
15 Aug 09
Grrr! I have very few places to go, myself. Primarily Trader Joes, Whole Foods, and Follow Your Heart. What kind of stores do you have where you are? I finally got an awesome ready made vegan "cheese" pizza, in the frozen section at whole foods. It was so good, made out of a rice crust. It was rather expensive, so I can't buy it often, but I really want to try a pizza from Follow Your Heart, or when I can travel go down to San Diego to a restaurant known for its vegan pepperoni pizza. I really want to try that.
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• United States
17 Aug 09
Sry didn't answer earlier. I like shopping in trader joe's, health nuts, dr. bwells (thats the one that got bought and is going down the list of my fav stores) fairway (they suck when it comes to vegan cheese, but I love other things there) and recently started shoping in whole foods. I'm lucky to live in the area with so many health food stores :) I prefer raw food, so no frozen pizzas for me :( i just make it myself and only add very few cooked items, cheese being one of them.