sorry anything processed is under scruteny.
labels don't tell the entirety of it all either.
and is that vegetable oil not containing elements that help keep it's
shelf
life and useage longevity? then it's probably got animal product.
everything is animal animal it's all old school the cheap industry way.
that's how it is.
i'm not sure if things will change... we just have to make our own
ammends.
not all tofu is safe.... read those labels... one company will
out****ne
the other but be careful.
"Elmo" <ElmoHateSpam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Mark Thorson wrote:
>> higher elvisarchy wrote:
>>> "Ron" <banmilk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>> ingredient necessary for thickening. If you have a
>>>> reaction to MSG, you recognize "modified food starch"
>>>> as another name for this excitotoxin. Food starch?
>>
>> Baloney! You've confused "modified food starch"
>> with "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" or something
>> like that. Hydrolyzed protein is protein that has
>> been broken down into amino acids, and one of those
>> amino acids is glutamic acid, which becomes glutamate
>> when alkaline. Hydrolyzed protein is used as an
>> MSG substitute, either for cost reasons or to avoid
>> indicating MSG on the label.
>>
>> Starch can be hydrolyzed, but that converts it into
>> sugars, not amino acids.
>>
>> Modified starch is not completely hydrolyzed to
>> sugars. It is modified to control its chain length,
>> to adjust its thickening properties.
>
> I thought that vegan meant No animal products which means:
> No meat
> No eggs
> No dairy
> No fish
> (No s****s, salamanders, frogs, etc. either)
>
> We had a "local foods" brunch as a fund raiser and tried to use organic
as
> well as local. Helped out by local producers of organic raw milk,
organic
> ****k (what's brunch w/o bacon and sausage?), cheese, yogurt, and eggs.
We
> had foods labeled if they were known to be vegetarian and others (far
> fewer) labeled vegan. One of the members of the organization wanted us
to
> show her "one of the vegans" because she wanted to know what "they"
looked
> like.
> As far as I can tell, vegans are allowed to eat
> Potato chips (as long as they're fried in vegetable oil)
> Guacamole
> Tofu
> --
> It takes 15 million barrels of oil per year to make
> all of the plastic water bottles in America. 8 out
> of 10 water bottles end up in the landfill.
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