Going vegan. Food packing says "product used on machines that have contact w/ milk, etc. Is this ok?!
Answers: Lots of "organic" products still have dairy. I'm looking to stop all dairy intake. Alot of the products state that they have contact w/ machines, storage that have contact w/ dairy products. Is it acceptable to purchase these products?
That information is given for people with allergies. The machines are cleaned, but it covers the company's back if a minute trace of an allergen such as nuts, egg or milk somehow remains and finds its way into another food, causing an allergic reaction.
They are fine for you to buy and use.
it's really not a question of whether it's acceptable. if you're going vegan because of health benefits, buying those products shouldn't be an issue. if you're changing your diet because of health problems or because of personal principles, it might mean more to you that the machines were used to make dairy products. it's liek, kids allergic to nuts can't eat ANYTHING made on machinery that's been used to nuts because they physically aren't allowed to, but technically a vegetarian could eat something off of machinery used for meat
It's up to you.
Just as some vegetarians choose to eat gelatine or rennet, some vegans don't have a problem with eating things made on mchines that have contact with dairy products others do.
It's totally up to you, Rogue. There are no vegan police waiting to nab you if you put one foot wrong.
If I were you, I wouldn't purchase those products, but that's just me. I personally won't buy any products that have that kind of warning on them, whether it be pasta or wine or whatever. I object to even "traces" of egg and seafood and animal fats making their way into foods that shouldn't have them in. I prefer to buy from their competitors, who don't use the same equipment for everything they produce.
BTW, the labels usually only mention possible "trace" things that they are obliged under the law to mention - in other words, things that are known allergens, such as dairy, egg, seafood, peanuts, tree nuts, gluten, soy, aspartame, etc. There will always be other things that they don't mention, because they are not known allergens, so they don't have to mention them. Animal fats are not a known allergen, so there are probably "traces" in a lot of foods we buy, but we wouldn't know about it, because it doesn't appear on the labels.
The UK has probably the most veg*an-friendly food labelling in the world. It's just a question of waiting till the rest of the world catches up with them.
Companies include that info for people with serious allergies.
I don't see any problem with it from an ethical perspective; the demand for dairy doesn't increase as a result of vegan food touching the same machinery as non-vegan food. It's like a veggie burger being cooked on the same grill as meat -- the demand for meat won't increase if some meat juice happens to touch the veggie burger. But that's just me -- everyone has to decide where to draw the line.
I highly recommend this essay if you're going vegan for animal-related reasons:
http://www.veganoutreach.org/howvegan.ht...
Good luck!
That's up to you,how far you want to go,and how much you're willing to give up.
Vegetarians do not eat animals. Cows, pigs, chickens, snakes, ants, body crabs and milk are animals.
They put that on the label for people that have extreme allergies to those products.
They clean the machines before each transition to a new product. There is no animal exploitation involved in consuming those foods due to sharing equipment.
i did not know that milk was an animal! that is so interesting, what does this milk animal look like?
anyways, eating products that may have come into contact with dairy is not a problem. it is on there for those with allergies.
They have to label that way for people who suffer from allergies. It doesn't mean that there's milk in the product and most vegans I know would buy it. The thing is that most vegan companies can only afford to bring their products to market by sharing manufacturing space and equipment with other companies. If you're going to reject a purposefully vegan product because it might have a nanoparticle of milk in it, you're making it harder for companies to make purposefully vegan products.
Being Vegan is dumb. You get like nutritionally deprived.
How old are you anyway? If you're under the age of 18 you shouldn't be.