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Vegan here ! I don't get an opportunity to use the boards as much as I'd like to, but you can add me as a friend or message me, if you'd like :)

Great work - many congratulations ! :)

I'm a fan of Vega Sport and Vega One. Vega One tastes delicious, has 15 g of protein, and works amazingly well as a base for smoothies, and I find myself using that one early in the morning, usually with breakfast. Vega Sport tastes more like a regular protein shake (i e, okay, but not delicious) but has 25 g of protein,…

'Extreme' is an understatement when it comes to the Esselstyn Diet LOL. Some vegan groups try and appeal to his one nonrandomized trial to make the claim that vegans can't have heart attacks, but in reality, the Esselstyn Diet is so much more restricted than a conventional vegan diet (the diet eaten by people concerned…

There's also conserves, preserves, fruit spread (when juice is used instead of sugar), etc. I have a recipe for a habanero-apricot jelly and a pectin jelly kit in my cabinet that I've been intending to use.

Indeed. I'm currently having a nice shot of afternoon espresso <3 I've read that Dr Esselstyn no longer allows caffienated coffee on his diet, so that version of the vegan diet tut tuts it. I also intend to have some vegan chili later atop which I will be placing several yummy avocado slices, which some of the very-low-fat…

That makes sense: there are supposedly animal parts in flour, too. Yep, veganism is all about intent. I realize that just by living, other animals will likely die. Fish can be killed in hydroelectric dams, insects smack one's windshield whilst driving, some animals are killed when crops are culled, etc, etc, but none are…

I read the same thing, too. I think it applied to a handful of cases, though it should still be investigated. Fair for Life is another certifier, and I'd imagine that products that can pass muster under a coupler of guidelines would be more likely to not involve slave labor, so perhaps the best solution is to look for…

Thank you, thank you, thank you ! Some people don't believe it's wrong to use animals, while others simply do. The fact that it's an open debate in philosophy indicates that there are well-reasoned arguments and intelligent individuals on both sides. The labor involved in coffee and chocolate are both issues. Are fair…

Yes, hunting, fishing, etc is considered as using an animal as a means to one's own end and is therefore not considered to be vegan. Again, not an official spokesperson, but if the Kopi Luwak beans are being intentionally fed to an Asian palm civet and the defecated beans are being sold for a profit, it would fall under…

Not sure how all chocolate contains bug bits ...? I have bars of chocolate in my cabinent that are Certified Vegan [1] and that standard requires that animal products not intentionally be included in a product. If they're in there incidentally, like fly legs in peanut butter, and not intentionally included, then it…

From the vegan society 'Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.' Abstaining from using water is not possible or practicable. Animal blood is also used in the manufacture of car…

LOL...yeah, when taken to ridiculous extremes (and some individuals do just this) a lot of things become non-vegan. If no animal part is left in the final product, then it's technically not considered an animal food by food scientists, and from the official vegan society page --'From 'junk food vegans' to raw food vegans -…

It's grey area amongst vegans. Certain manufacturers use animal bone char during the refinement process of cane sugar; no bone char remains in the final product, however, so cane sugar, itself, is not an animal product. Animal byproducts are sometimes used in its refinement, however. That said, vegan sugar is available at…

This. I'm a vegan, but I don't really concern myself with other people's diets. When people who are interested in trying a vegan diet ask me how to start, however, I usually will direct them to the following two books/eBooks: 1/ Vegan for Life by Ginny Messina and Jack Norris 2/ Becoming Vegan Express Edition by Brenda…