This woke garbage really is getting beyond a joke.

I just had a motoring sight X out most of unmolested to uxxxxxxxx.
Surely this is a legitimate word to describe a car that has not been mucked with by some back yard hotroder, & a word still suitable to use in polite society. They make fools of themselves.

Hassy,

I'd accuse you of a lot of things, but never being a Greenie, given your track record as a petrol freaky, for a gas guzzling, bitumen burning rev head, like you, that would be beyond the pale!

It should now be clear that 'reading the ingredients' is of little use in some cases.

I always check the labels to make sure that the product doesn't come from China, or New Zealand. Reason for the former is obvious; the reason for the second is that China 'washes' a lot of its human-ordure-fertilised rubbish through NZ, where the stuff is merely packed or used by NZ manufacturers.

We have to do our own research and be cautious while
purchasing items if we are vegan. I'm not. I love
all kinds of food far too much.

Checking ingredients may help - but even that could
be deceiving. For example - I only recently found out that
gelatin is made of leftovers of meat, such as bones, horns,
et cetera and is obtained by boiling parts of animals to
make productive use of them. It's used in marshmallows,
Jello, gummy bears, and so on.

Then there's lard. This is fat derived from the abdomens of
pigs.

Did you know that honey is derived from honeybees - which is
their secretion and not vegan.

Lecithin can be animal as well as plant-based and is found
in baked goods, breakfast cereals, and even vegetable oil
sprays. These should be marked - from plant-based sources.
Of course not all are.

Interesting discussion.

I have been vegetarian for some time and know people who are vegan or on plant-based diets (preferred title for some). It is a not something that has come from recent times.

I also see no link to being woke either and being vegetarian or on a plant-based diet. After all, we have around 10-12% of people in Australia on vegetarian or plant-based diets combined and that is an increase from 2-3% of vegetarian/vegan diets in earlier days which has come from people signing up to plant-based diets for health reasons.

This article gives a good overview of the history of vegetarianism in Australia.

As the article points out:

"In the early 1800s, Seventh Day Adventists held "a general belief that [meat and alcohol] mutually worked together to cause various forms of social ills and promiscuity."

I would hardly call Seventh Day Adventists woke or anything close to that.

If you want to read the article go to: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-30/the-200-year-history-of-vegetarianism-in-australia/100310038. It is a very interesting article to read and very informative.

Finally, in terms of taking in certain animal products you don't want to as a vegetarian or person on a plant-based diet, simply cut down on processed foods. An apple from a tree or something from your vegetable garden won't be a problem. One glaze for example on some chocolate comes directly from insect secretions, hardly something that is overly appealing!

http://www.eatingwell.com/article/7833340/chocolate-shellac-bug-secretion/

Nathan

There is a great difference between vegetarians and vegans. And vegans are definitely woke. The post is about woke vegans, not vegetarians. Vegetarianism is OK for reasons of health, religion or whatever. Vegans and their ridiculous attitudes to animals and animal products are off the planet.