Chip shop chips not suitable for veggies?

mikeandrach_2

i dont think they really care, they probably eat meat in private anyway, 99.9% of vegetarians are just attention seeking rather than having any genuine issue with meat

System

mikeandrach wrote: »

i dont think they really care, they probably eat meat in private anyway, 99.9% of vegetarians are just attention seeking rather than having any genuine issue with meat

LOL, absolutely ridiculous.

System

junkmayle wrote: »

I thought only vegans had problems with anything animal related.

Vegans will not touch ANYTHING produced from or by an animal

junkmayle wrote: »

As a vegetarian, you would be eating a potato cooked in animal fat, not actually eating the animal itself. Do you drink milk? Eat cheese? Jellies and Gum sweets? All those could easily contain animal related products but not the animal themselves.

Vegetarians, depending on the type will normally not eat anything produced FROM an animal but depending on the version of vegetarianism will eat their produce e.g. milk, butter etc

soolin

junkmayle wrote: »

I thought only vegans had problems with anything animal related. As a vegetarian, you would be eating a potato cooked in animal fat, not actually eating the animal itself. Do you drink milk? Eat cheese? Jellies and Gum sweets? All those could easily contain animal related products but not the animal themselves.

It's all to do with whether the animal dies as a result of obtaining the food. So meat (as you might say if you read the pamphlets) is murder, eggs that are unfertilised is not. Same as cheese, the animal provides milk and survives to live another day.

So eggs would be fine, jelly babies would not be fine as they contain gelatine which is made from the bones of animals.

MamaMoo_2

junkmayle wrote: »

I thought only vegans had problems with anything animal related. As a vegetarian, you would be eating a potato cooked in animal fat, not actually eating the animal itself. Do you drink milk? Eat cheese? Jellies and Gum sweets? All those could easily contain animal related products but not the animal themselves.

Vegans won't eat or use anything that came from an animal, dead or alive, including meat, milk, eggs, leather etc. as the general belief is that it's wrong to exploit animals for their products.

Vegetarians won't eat or use anything for which an animal had to die, ie meat, leather, gelatin etc.
They will, however, use animal products such as eggs, milk etc where the animal was alive. The vegetarian standpoint is that it's wrong to kill animals for food, however products obtained without killing the animal are fine.

I was actually quite surprised how many products vegetarians won't touch. For example, Haribo, certain brands of peanuts, certain breads, certain margerines, sweets with cochineal colouring etc.
The one that surprised me is that many meat-flavoured crisps were veggie friendly, yet certain seemingly veggie ones (I'm sure it was a certain brand of cheese & onion) contained meat products.

Johno100

soolin wrote: »

It's all to do with whether the animal dies as a result of obtaining the food. So meat (as you might say if you read the pamphlets) is murder, eggs that are unfertilised is not. Same as cheese, the animal provides milk and survives to live another day.

Not sure if the calf that dies to produce the rennet found in most cheese would agree with that statement.

Azari

Johno100 wrote: »

Not sure if the calf that dies to produce the rennet found in most cheese would agree with that statement.

Strict vegetarians will only eat cheese made with non-animal rennet.

steven504

Not sure if the calf that dies needlessly because people drink milk or eat cheese and don't eat veal would agree either.

http://www.rspca.org.uk/media/news/story/-/article/EM_Almost_100000_dairy_calves_killed_for_being_wrong_sex_May12

Fire_Fox

reehsetin wrote: »

Saw a chippie on Alex Polizzi's tv show recently say that they put beef dripping in their oil but it wasn't written anywhere, does anyone know if this is a common thing in the industry?
Didn't realise it was something that needed to be checked!

In my ignorance I assumed all vegetarians asked whenever they ate out, just like you read ingredients labels when in the supermarket. Surely the only things you can trust look the same as when they come off the plant and are completely unprocessed?

roddydogs

The Chippy in Alex Polizzi DID have a sign saying "Beef Dripping", wasnt that big thou.