My son says he heard that cheese is made with animal rennet.?!
My son says he heard that cheese is made with animal rennet.?
Is this true? If so what are the alternatives for vegans?
Answers:
Most cheese is made with rennet to get it to curdle. Some cheese is made with vegetarian rennet (derived from plants), however I'm not sure of what brands. Most kosher cheese uses a microbial rennet which is derived from molds. However, if you are vegan, I'm not sure you're supposed to be eating cheese - did you mean vegetarian?
Most cheese is. Look for kosher on the label. Jewish kosher law prohibits meat products and dairy products to even be kept in the same refrigerator so the cheese is made without rennet.
Vegans don't eat cheese, or any other form of dairy food. Vegetarians can eat cheese as long as it states "suitable for vegetarians"
Almost all the rennet is synthetic now.
Most dairy based cheeses are made with rennet. Some soy cheeses are made with rennet also. You have to check the label. My daughter is vegan and she knows which brands are OK, but she's not home now.
Don't worry about it: you can eat cheese. Trust me.
I was going to say that food that we eat isn't pretty when it is made into that nice little sandwhich that I pack my son for school, but vegans take it a whole level further.
I have nothing more to say for vegans, how did your vegan philosophy survive the Darwin era, were you shocked or disgusted or did you let that animal eat you because you would not eat it??
Vegans are supermarket picky people, living in fantasy that the human diet can exist without animals.
Sorry to say, livestock was raised thousands of years ago just for the sole importance of being consumed, hopefully your SUV can recognize that importance..... :-)
I find vegans to be the biggest hypocrits around, nothing personall to you, I just find that if you consume gas, you are consuming animal byproducts compressed after many years.....do you drive a car? Then you consume animals.....
Oh My .. I'll never eat cheese again ....
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Yes especially Cheddar cheese. Look for vegetarian cheddar when you are buying.
Rennet (from calf) is widely used for the fermentation of milk (curds it) that then become cheese, although some manufacturers use vegetarian rennet or synthetized one. Cheese is made from milk which might be a problem if you are vegan, unless you enjoy heavily processed food...
Having vegan cheese is a bit like having chocolate with no cocoa...
as said vegans don't eat dairy produce... vegetarians do
the rennet is from a lambs stomach..
not all cheese has animal rennet, but parmegiano reggiano definetly has, if it doesn't have the rennet it cannot be called parmesan... if you're in the uk vegetarian labelling is very good and you can avoid the rennet... a fish rennet is also in wine...
Yes cheese does contain rennet unless it is vegetarian cheese. Vegans don't eat cheese!
Vegans don't eat cheese as it comes from a cow. Most cheese, but not all, does not contain animal rennet now. Most of the time in England, on the label it will have a vegitarian sign on to tell you if it is free from it
I use rennet when making cheeslets. I buy it from the Chemist. The rennet is to harden the cheese..
There are a lot of cheeses specifically made for vegetarians, they are usually labelled suitable for vegetarians.
I believe more manufacturers will move in this direction, because there are no advantages in animal rennet.
There is an alternative cheese for vegans, don't know where you can buy it, but this link will tell you how to make it, if you scroll down it.
http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/re...
I might try it myself.
Many cheeses are but ones without are fairly easy to find. Vegans do not eat cheese though. Many natural markets carry animal rennet free cheese and cabot brand has several animal rennet free cheeses. They all will state on the package either non animal rennet or microbial enzymes.
vegans don't eat cheese anyway. Vegetarians might. Unless it is clearly marked vegetarian rennet, then its likely animal rennet, which comes from the 4th stomach of a slaughtered baby male calf, discarded by the dairy industry. Vegetarian rennet is from a weed. I use vegetarian rennet to make homemade cheeses. Most whole food stores carry veggie rennet cheeses
True (at least in Canada, not sure of other countries)
It's listed on the ingrediants list.
There are some that dont (one that comes to mind is some makes of Havarti but not all)
If you buy your cheese at your local European Market, ask the person behind the counter, they usually know their products pretty well.
As far as alternatives for Vegans, I dont know.
And vegetarians for that matter. No vegetarian eats cheese with animal rennet in it
I'm new to this forum and had no idea there were so many vegetarian and vegan haters around.
Why are they in this forum I wonder ?
Maybe they cannot communicate without hate, who knows.
And is it also true that many people beleive that all cheese is vegetarian, surely people know what is in their food ?
No. Unless the animals remains = milk. That is what cheese is made from. It is avoided on vegan diets as milk is animal-derived.
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For vegans you would need a cheese without milk as well as without animal rennet.
there are several about, but they are usually only available in health-food stores, the big chain supermarkets have not yet seen fit to carry them.
For simple vegetarian cheese, look for a vegetarian society approval logo - or sometimes a stores own logo (often a little leaf type of thing). It should also say 'Suitable for vegetarians' somewhere on the label - if it has one. To be honest, most mass-produced cheeses these days are made from veggie rennet as it is easier to use and cheaper for big and small producers. But check anyway.
If from a deli, ask the deli themselves as they are bound to know (in this day & age...!)
Most commercial cheeses especially Cheddar are made with animal rennet taken from a calve's stomach. Make sure you ask for cheese which has no animal rennet in it.
Vegans cannot eat dairy cheese.There are vegan cheeses.In the UK the most common is redwoods cheezly.It comes in different varieties including a melting one suitable for cooking and doing vegan pizzas with.
Vegetarians can eat rennet-free dairy cheese.Look at packets in a supermarkets and you'll find some which say 'suitable for vegetarians' these are the ones which don't use animal rennet.