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Alert the Vegan Police
Salon takes a peek at blog Quarrygirl.com’s “Operation Pancake: Undercover Investigation of LA Vegan Restaurants,” a 6,000-plus-word look at vegan restaurants in Los Angeles that finds that “vegan” dishes are often contaminated with egg, casein, and other verboten ingredients. Salon’s Andrew Leonard puts his finger on the most interesting issue: Fake meat from Taiwan (the most popular exporter) isn’t as pure as vegans would like. Why? The intrepid “Operation Pancake” investigators have the answer:
“In the Taiwanese and Chinese market [where most of these products are made and sold] vegetarian customers are only concerned with meat ingredients and not bothered at all if egg or milk ingredients are included [this is due to religious reasons in many cases, typically to accommodate Buddhists, who are often not vegan].”
Also, according to one Taiwanese manufacturer:
“There are few labeling regulations in Taiwan and they are rarely, if ever, enforced. We usually list the ingredients we put into food directly, but if if we’re using something from a third party we don’t always list the ingredients in that. It’s just not important in Taiwan.”
Does this remind anyone else of those guys who got busted for relabeling regular doughnuts as low-fat?
Posted by | Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 1:19pm | 4 comments
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I find it really awful that a place labeling itself "vegan" isn't always vegan. When I go out to eat, I like to think I can trust the restaurant to deliver what it claims. Apparently not so in LA.
This is juz because of no check and balance on these restaurants that make it easy for them dis obey the ethics and rules.
it is not only harmful for their reputation but also give a bad impact to tourists coming from other countries.
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I think that it's crazy to eat highly processed foods if you're vegan or vegetarian. What's the point?
I agree with above commenter - I really don't get this fake processed meat like food offered to vegans in the name of protein.