shauny's vegan place Jul 8, 2023

Well this is incredibly worrying.

“One in three UK vegan products found to contain milk or egg”

Can we just not shove animal excretions into everything we eat please?? It’s all I ask for. #vegan

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jul/07/one-in-three-uk-vegan-products-found-contain-milk-egg

One in three UK vegan products found to contain milk or egg

Exclusive: Trading standards body warns shoppers with severe allergies could face ‘tragic consequences’

The Guardian
Show threadFabianJul 8, 2023
@shauny contain traces. These are declared in the allergen warnings. They are not included as ingredients, just FUD from the guardian.
Show threadOfShad0wsJul 8, 2023
@fabianf @shauny
I'm not in the UK, in my place products labeled as vegan almost never contain traces of animal products (as per allergen warnings)
So this looks like shitty marketing to me
Show threadFabianJul 8, 2023
@OfShad0ws @shauny are you sure about that? Or are the allergen labelling standards just less strict?
These traces come from being prepared in the same factories, and very few vegan products are made in all-vegan factories.
This is how it usually reads here…
Show threadOfShad0wsJul 8, 2023
@fabianf @shauny
Just checked it, they must list possible traces of milk, eggs, fish and some non-animal products, but not meat.
And I usually see such on plant-based, but not vegan products.
Show threadFabian

@OfShad0ws @shauny there’s hesitation to label things vegan here because of the risk of allergy related lawsuit, but the reality is people choosing a vegan lifestyle (as opposed to a plant based diet) are doing so for ethical reasons that are unrelated by cross contamination. That’s why companies feel more emboldened to label as vegan despite xcontamination risk.

Allergy sufferers relying on vegan labelling instead of allergen warnings are playing a dangerous game.

Jul 8, 2023 at 8:43amMastodon for iOS
Show threadOfShad0wsJul 8, 2023
@fabianf @shauny
Well, you're probably right, but I personally don't want to support companies that also make non-vegan products, and am also disgusted by the idea of eating even traces of them, so allergy warnings with animal products are an instant nope from me.
Show threadFabianJul 8, 2023

@OfShad0ws @shauny often, it’s not that straightforward. Different companies will rent the same production facilities. The facility and the owning company itself doesn’t produce anything food or animal related.

Of course there are companies like vbites and Quorn which run their own production facilities (Quorn however do use egg and milk in a lot of their products but not meat), but smaller conpanies can’t always afford to.