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I was horrified some years ago to find that the stir-fry sauce I was using had whey in it , then there was wasabi paste w/egg yolk and whey, then the Planters then (recently) I found out some cheaper spices can be ground with animal bone😱...It took a while to get really good at label reading, but when things aren't even on the label- that level of trickery is just plain disgusting😫 Great video👍 New subscriber✌💚

Amazing Video! That cake looks so amazing! Thank you for helping your fellow vegans find great recipes for the season!

Yes, we’ve been mislead for decades. Like promoting plants and grains as good for you🤥

Good grief…

Good video. Damn, being vegan is like trying to run through a minefield!!

The usage of "plant-based" in your banner seems out of place. The term plant-based has basically no meaning, it is very often used online to describe flexitarianism, or vegetarianism. Even when used to describe no direct animal usage, it ignores animal testing, and any/all non food related animal exploitation. It always gives me a lot of doubt about a person, especially when they appear to be using the deliberately nonsensical term interchangeably with vegan.

Please leave the shit show and have peace somewhere else.

It took awhile to narrow it down. I have a localized allergy to carmine. My eyes get red itchy and irritated with purple eyeliner. Yes, just the purple. Even the high end eyeliners often have carmine. Even the “clean” lines.

I nearly bought a pot pie once with vegan in big bold letters on the front on the packaging. Upon further inspection the meat in the pie was what the vegan label was referring too but the rest of the pie was NOT Vegan.

Thank you, this is very useful to know when travelling to USA.

You nailed morning star aka nestle, and I was at Safeway Saturday and saw they had new stuff with Vegan emblem. I thought Oh, finally! Until I flipped the package over: bio engineered. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Grown from fetuses? Really safest foods are organic veggies and that which you grow. 😌peace be with you!

Apple pies are deep fried anyway in the same French fry oil. Great Video!

If you're worried about platic waste, look for the little glass jars of apple sauce, then you get to keep the jar :D Also, that cake looks lit! <3

I really admire your attention to details. Probably why I flunked Vegan 101.

Great to see an actual vegan, talking about veganism online. The majority tend to be plant based, completely devoid of ethics.

Gelatin used for clarifying fruit juice concentrates, and 'natural flavours' are two others that come to mind

Okay, I didn't see some of these tripping us up. Thanks for the info.

On nutritional information, Progresso soups that are vegetable soups, chick pea soups,etc will say "Vegetarian, not vegan".I've been reading labels more carefully these days. Also, no one tells you if their plastic bottles are BPH free, so I can assume they are contaminated with BPH.

I was surprised that toilet paper isn‘t vegan.

great video, it's so crazy to me how animal products get "thrown" into stuff without a second thought!! Just a clarifying question from someone living in central Europe: does a proactive and unanmbiguous vegan labelling exist at all? Such as the yellow v-label? Or do you always have to rely on brand claims or checking the ingredient list yourself?

Great video, we must always remain keen and on the lookout! New sub, you're awesome, very intense blue eyes, so pretty ❤🎉

Wow, so informative and I have never seen your channel before. You are great!👍

I don’t eat fries anywhere because you never know if meats were fried in the oil.

The Morning Star one makes me the most confused. Some of their items (burger patties - certain ones) have the egg white so far down in the ingredient list it makes me wonder with how little they are using that a vegan binder could have been used without really impacting the cost. I wager that the amount is maybe 1/2 teaspoon or less per patty in some of them so why are they even doing it!?! Well, I know why. Almost certainly someone driving by spreadsheet, meaning that the egg white binder is probably $0.01 per patty and a vegan binder would be $0.015 to $0.02 per patty and if you asked them why you'd simple hear an answer without a scale applied to it, "The vegan binder is between 50% and double the cost of the egg white." But ok, raise the price by $0.25 per pack of 4 patties and make them vegan!

Doing compassionate work. Great stuff!

This cake looks SOOO good!

One more hek293

i'm not buying anything with the term Natural Flavors on the label any more. i first noticed this with the Rice-A-Roni brand of rice products. i've never eaten any of them since going vegetarian back in '88 but my mom does. it seemed like overnight, the labels went from listing whatever animal flavoring it contained, chicken, beef or shrimp to "Natural Flavorings". you don't suddenly retool your manufacturing process and recipes like that in this day and age. beef, chicken and fish are 'natural flavors' to meat eaters. lol

I was told when working in an industrial kitchen that the L-cystiene was not just a conditioning agent but also an antifungal. That it's being used to prolong shelf life. And I'd seen the difference in shelf life when the small batch company supplying or baked goods forgot it in random batches. Honestly there's plenty of ways to get human hair that's not exploitative but I'm not sure that's they're how you get industrial amounts. As far as reducing food waste if it was collected from humans in a way that didn't exploit them I wouldn't be against it's use.

Beware any product that advertises suitability for ‘vegetarians’.

Girl, nothing is vegan. I used to work at a vineyard, and if you knew how many spiders go through the crusher and contribute their hemolymph to the wine, you would be shocked. It's not a few here and there. It's millions. I'm willing to bet that wine WITHOUT spider blood would taste almost unrecognizable to most people. And that's not even considering all the bunnies that were trapped, deer and wild pigs that were shot, and small birds that died tangled in the anti-pest netting. All to protect the fields for a "vegan" product. Those were the organic fields. The conventional fields killed all those animals, plus millions of bugs, plus all of the amphibians downstream in that watershed. Then the fish and aquatic birds, and eventually the sea creatures when the pesticide stream gets to the sea. The most compassionate thing you can do is raise a fat happy pig, slaughter it in the winter, and live off of it for the rest of the year. One death, of an animal whose happiness and health you could personally oversee. Working in the agricultural arena sure opened my eyes.

Processed food is bad all the way around. Even vegan processed food is something I try to avoid. I saw chocolate Twinkies in the store the other day, and I read the label. Not only does it have egg whites but it also has tallow. And it also has hydrogenated tallow!

I dig your style, Very Vegan Val. Keep it very vegan.

Thank you 💚

Sugar can be non vegan. Because of the purifying/filtering process.

As someone with alpha-gal allergy, it was a big eye opener how many mammal products are hidden in US foods. Alpha-gal is in all mammals except humans and great apes.

Pepsi probably not vegan because sugars are filtered through bone char, with an alpha gal allergy I have found out most undesirable foods have a food allergy for me in them. I know we can do better but our priorities are jumbled.

I am vegan wholefood & rarely eat junk food. Occasionally (once or twice yearly), I would have strawberry 🍓 Starburst candies … Until I found out that the tartness of the candies comes from beetle anus extract. 🤮 Well! Needless to say, I no longer eat Starbursts candies.

Wow Pepsi blew my mind lol, the ingredients list is why i went raw vegan, least i can be sure a vegetable is vegan 😂

Chef woo got me

The frosted mini wheats have gelatin for the same reason pop-tarts do. The frosting “needs” the gelatin to help it set hard.

WOW!!! 🤯 Thank you so much for sharing this information! Yikes!

I was surprised that Jiffy blueberry muffin mix had lard in it

easier just to be vegetarian and try your best

Will try them with the regular beans and brown rice. Thanks!

I was eating Planters dry roasted peanuts last week and was sorry to see they contained gelatin.

This will all get so much worse when regulations are stripped, and big ag has carte blanche. And….check the glue on your shoes……

The sour cream and onion potato chips in the prepackaged section are vegan (as of the last time i got them). They were made with nutritional yeast. And sooo good!!!