question for heterosexual vegan women

Bone char, also known as bone black or animal charcoal, is a granular material produced by charring animal bones: the bones are heated to high temperatures (in the range of 400 to 500 °C) in an oxygen-depleted atmosphere to control the quality of the product as related to its adsorption capacity for applications such as defluoridation of water and removal of heavy metals from aqueous solutions.

Bone char is used to remove fluoride from water and to filter aquarium water.
It is often used in the sugar refining industry for decolorizing (a process patented by Louis Constant in 1812). This is a concern for vegans and vegetarians, since about a quarter of the sugar in the US is processed using bone char as a filter (about half of all sugar from sugar cane is processed with bone char, the rest with activated carbon).

 

And for the record, I spent three years as a vegan for health reasons, not for any reasons of conscience, even though I have been active in animal rescue for many years.

I was treating a medical condition and did so successfully.

 

In the US?
See now does that mean it's only in the US or is that just them using a phrase. I've never heard of anything like this so I'm not sure if it's just me or where I am.

EDIT: Also, do you know if the sugar is counted as non-veg or not? ... argh.

 

I'm guessing that since many countries produce sugar, many countries use it. Of course many countries just produce raw cane sugar without refining. This is currently an issue within the EU since some nations have been prohibiting hormones and other treatments to the meat farming industry and those treatments carry into the bones that are made into bone char.

I don't even use raw sugar anymore, I've switched to stevia.

 

Do you know what sorts of products have animal byproducts in them? Film does. Are you going to say someone isn't a vegan because they watch Milk?

But they are concerned with whether or not its detrimental to animals, which is why they do not consume animal byproducts. They assume animals are mistreated in the harvesting of honey or eggs. A vegan isn't a vegan, I would assume for a literal interpretation of what constitutes an animal byproduct. A vegan is a vegan for animal welfare, which is obviously not impeded by oral sex. They are literally consuming animal byproducts by swallowing DNA. It does not implicate their philosophical reasons for not consuming or using animal byproducts.

I assume any heterosexual vegan women probably consider this far too vapid to waste time with.

 

FAIL. You don't know why vegans are vegans. I was a vegan for medical reasons. I have friends who are vegan for health reasons. You can't slap a label on it, it won't stick. There are as many reasons for being vegan as there are for being Agnostic.

Nice try though.

 

It varies from vegan to vegan whether or not they consider it vegan.

It's kinda like asking people about other philosophical positions. Because that's what it is to people. A philosophical impetus for a change to their diet.

There are exceptions to everything.

 

I would assume that if your a vegan for health reasons, you are in the minority, and most are for philosophical reasons.

Also this isn't a fail. This proves my point. Theres an exception to every rule.

And the exception here is that vegans for health reasons, shouldn't be swallowing a load. Because it's unhealthy in their world view.

They may still do it anyway though. :biggrin:

 

The philosophical vegans (and I'm talking mostly rabid PETA supporters) usually only date other vegans. So this would be also be an exception to the rule. And in my experience, it's a 50/50 proposition: either they don't give head because they feel it's demeaning to them as women or they gladly swallow because they say vegan semen tastes better.

I'm sure there are many exceptions to this rule as well.

 

I meant when they sell it, if we buy a kilo of sugar will it say it's non-veg or not?

 

Vegan semen would still be an animal byproduct though. So if you were looking at it from this strict and rather dumb literal argument again...

Ah whatever.

Merry Christmas Zoomie you wonderful bastard. :biggrin:

 

Ask yourself this question: If Burger King told you exactly where their meat came from and how it was processed, would you eat it?

 

No, but I don't eat there anyway... Hm... I don't think I could bear to stop eating sugar.
I get what you mean though.

 

It's what we do here at RT. It's what we do BEST.

Happy whatever you celebrate this time of year, lode.

 

You should try stevia. Just use it sparingly, as it is very bitter in high concentrations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia

 

and some are vegan for religious reasons, like SDA's.

 

i would

but then again, i don't care how the cow died, as long as its delicious

 

What if the cow offered you three wishes in exchange for it's life?

But theres a catch. None of the three wishes can involve beef.

 

thats fine, theres plenty of other delicious animals i could eat, such as pig

 

And that's ok too, Fitz. You know what's best for you.