Vegans can't eat cane sugar?!


Question: So white cane sugar is an animal product too?
I didn't know that until today.
I know that honey, whey, dairy, eggs, and meat are not to be eaten but i didn't know about cane sugar.
Is there anything else?


Answers: So white cane sugar is an animal product too?
I didn't know that until today.
I know that honey, whey, dairy, eggs, and meat are not to be eaten but i didn't know about cane sugar.
Is there anything else?

I believe the sugar bit is because of the way white cane sugar is processed. You can read about it in "Sugar Blues." Raw sugar may be fine.

It's because they *may* use animal products to create the charcoal that is used to purify the sugar.
I think that is just being silly.
Billions of creatures are eaten alive every every day in nature, another .00001% due to charcoal production shouldn't be a big deal. Charcoal is sometimes made of animal bone, which is largely a "waste product" of slaughterhouses.
Besides, then you'd have to avoid all other charcoal. No barbecues, no tropical fish, no water filter system.

this is news to me...Cane sugar comes from sugar cane, Im not sure what happens in the commercializing process but raw cane sugar is about as pure as you can get. Cane sugar is boiled down in kettles to get the syrup. I did a three year archaeological survey on a cane plantation, and unless they have changed sugar making a lot, Im not sure where the animal products come in.

Cane sugar is a produced from sugar cane, a plant. Its not an animal product and I don't think animals are harmed producing it. On the other hand, a lot of health food types don't like white sugar and consider it unhealthy. We do eat too much sugar, but don't stop eating at all because you think its an animal product.

Technically, no, it isn't. But some cane sugar may be processed with bone char. If you get turbinado (raw) sugar, evaporated cane juice, beet sugar, rapadura, or Sucanat, you don't need to worry about bone char.

You also want to avoid carmine (crushed cochineal beetles), confectioner's/food glaze, and shellac.

About 50% of white sugar in the USA is filtered through bone char... it's not an animal product but animal cruelty is involved.

Vitamins and minerals that fortify cereals and other products are not always vegetarian (commonly, D vitamin or B vitamins).

I'm really starting to think the vegans are just trying to find a way not to eat anymore.

White cane sugar is not an animal product. It has almost no chance of coming into contact with animal-based charcoal. Y'gotta draw the line somewhere.

No, white cane sugar is a plant product; it's made from sugar cane. However, most major brands are filtered through charred animal bones to whiten the final product. C&H and Domino, for example, are bone char filtered. You can certainly find vegan friendly brands of cane sugar; Whole Foods sells it. And beet sugar, which is prevalent in the Midwest, is not bone char filtered. Plus, there are alternative sweeteners you can use, like agave nectar, brown rice syrup and stevia.

You can find a list of animal ingredients on PeTA's website, I believe. And I think there's a list of ingredients to watch for in "Skinny B***h."

as far as i can say is that white cane sugar is purified and it dont come from animal

Yes, vegans can eat cane sugar but there are many brands that use bone char to filter the sugar. Try Florida Crystals. I get it from Walmart and it is stated on the jar that no animal products are involved. As stated above, there are many other brands out there to try. But mainly the processed "white' sugar is something to stay away from, just to be safe.

Sugar isn't an animal product. Some vegans avoid some brands because of the bone char refining process. Most don't, considering even water can be purified with animal products.

The whole bone char thing is probably just a rumor. They supposedly stopped using bone char to refine sugar in the 1950s.

Another ingredient to watch out for is casein. It's similar to whey and it comes from milk. It's used in almost all soy cheeses, so even though they say "lactose free", they are still not vegan





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