Bread and Tortillas
Many types of bread products, including bagels and tortillas, will contain some animal byproducts. This is a great example of why reading labels of all packaged food is vital.
- Bagels – If you are eating a bagel with the ingredient L. Cysteine, then it isn’t vegan. This ingredient is actually made with bird feathers, primarily from ducks and chickens. Many commercial bagel companies use L. Cysteins in their bagels, including Dunkin Donuts and Einstein Bros. You will also find this ingredient in Pizza Hut’s garlic bread and Mc Donald’s apple pies.
- Breads – Some store-bought bread will claim to be healthy by including Omega-3 and amino acids on the label, but this is an indication of the bread being non-vegan. Omega 3 acids come from fish oil, which of course is not vegan. Be sure to buy bread with no amino acids included. Your bread should contain just four simple ingredients; flour, yeast, water, and salt.
- Tortillas – Many tortillas are also not vegan. Some store-bought brands and restaurants will add a little beef lard or other animal fat to enhance the flavor of their tortillas. When eating out at a Mexican restaurant, you should always ask if their tortillas contain lard.
this article freaks me out a little bit! bird feathers?! EEK
@Alissa Fleck:
They also use human hair to produce cystein to make breads fluffy.Mostly hair from the asian country because it is less loaded with chemicals..bleaching, colouring and so on.
As a meat eater, I actually appreciate learning that so much of the animal is able to be put to use. This is not to say that I think it’s right to deceive vegans, though.
Bone char from animals? wow…
@Ms. Information:
It would also be possible to use char made from plants/wood..but the industry has to dump their waste somewhere.
And since it isn´t possible to use all the skeletons for fertilizing/chemical industry matters, you dump it into the food sector by whatever means you can think of.
truth might nothing we eat that we ddid not grow is safe- this is scary and really a bitter sweet truth
@mpho thithi:
One can just try to do the best possible…and eating more natural means getting less of the creepy stuff.
for me, being vegan is about embracing a nonviolent lifestyle and working towards ending exploitation and commodification. this blog makes it seem like veganism is about extreme restriction and perfection. there are vegan alternatives to almost everything listed there and they’re not hard to find.
i was hoping the article would talk about moving beyond obsessiving over byproducts and talk about things like palm oil and chocolate from child slaves.
This article is actually a bit misleading and also condescending to me as someone who lives a meat free lifestyle. I consider myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies and like many of which I know, we tend to be knowledgable of certain terms that would consider an item not to be vegan; plus we read labels. Also, it is not true that “many” beers contain geletin & egg whites. Some do, but not “many”, which is probably why only one brand name was given. Again, people who have been vegetarian or vegan for years know which brands/companies to stay away from because the labeling clearly states the ingredients and there are also numerous references to confirm what companies/produce remains free of animal products.