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  • I normally just go by the ingredients for most things. If it doesn't explicitly state that it's vegan but the ingredients are all fine it's usually because there's a risk of cross contamination in the facility that the item was produced. If you're vegan by choice rather than being intolerant to certain animal products, I wouldn't worry about it.
    The main exception that comes to mind is beer or wine. The finished product may not contain animal products so won't list them in the ingredients but the production process involves animal products. Best to Google if they're not marked as vegan and you're not sure!

    Once you've been at it for a while it gets a lot easier, you can walk in to a shop and know exactly what you should and shouldn't buy rather than having to read every individual label!

  • Cool, thanks for that. I don’t drink so that’s one less thing to worry about. It says a lot about how my diet was already that I didn’t actually need to change an awful lot to go vegan. More just tweaks. I was veggie already, cook from scratch everyday and don’t eat shit.

    So say the item below. It’s marked as not vegan, but would most vegans still eat this? It’s just plain white bread, surely?


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  • I’d want to read the list of ingredients- bit weird that it specifically says not suitable for vegans but maybe that’s just how Lidl does it

  • Well some of the frozen fruit and veg in Morrisons is labelled vegan and some of it labelled vegetarian. I'm not sure what couldn't be vegan in frozen fruit and veg. I think sometime it's just a bit of outdated packaging.

  • I'm pretty sure it's a case of the product being vegan but them not being 100% sure there's no cross-contamination from elsewhere and not being willing to put add to the costs by doing the due diligence to be absolutely sure it's vegan. It's just making sure they don't get sued, like the 'made in a factory that also processes nuts' disclaimer.

    That's what I think anyway. I just trust the ingredients list.

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