Vegetarian Information

The ethical vegetarian will take extra steps to stop the suffering and death of animals, some even for the insects too.

Leather is the first topic, wearing it does not directly case the death of the animal. For the most part, leather is a byproduct of animals that have been killed for the meat, rennet and other animal products. Their are many vegetarians that do have a ethical dilemma with meat, but no problem what so ever in wearing the leather, this is this way because it is viewed as the animal being killed for its meat not the leather, its just a byproduct. However, their are vegan on the other side of the fence that say wearing the leather indirectly causes the undue suffering of animals.

The vegans point is that it puts money into the hands of the slaughterhouses, also its just as bad as eating the meat. You are still helping with the continuation of institutional animal killings.

Silk wearing is a not for the hard-core vegetarian. The reason for this is if you wear silk it contributes to the cruelty of moth larvae. What is said is the larva is not allowed to grow into a moth and leave its cocoon. The manufacturers of silk boil the larvae alive in order to get longer silk strands from it, which is causing them to suffer.

This is something for you to think about if you are a vegetarian or a vegan or if you are thinking of becoming one. Giving up meat is a hard thing to do in my opinion, but if you believe in this strong enough and you are truly committed to this cause it should be easy enough to do.

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The process of making cheese is to have it curdled with an enzyme called rennet with occurs in animal stomachs naturally. Vegetarian cheese is made with vegetable rennet, fungi or bacteria. To be able to spot the difference between vegetarian cheese and animal rennet cheese is almost impossible unless its marked vegetarian cheese in the store, so watch your vegetarian foods.

The vegetarians that don’t eat cheese with animal rennet do so because they believe it causes animals to suffer when being slaughtered to extract the enzyme. Without the properly labeled product a ethically opposed vegetarian has a very hard time in distinguishing it from cheeses that were curdled with plants.

The vegan will not eat cheese at all because cheese is a byproduct of an animal. Many vegans will eat a product called chreese which is a non-soy, natural cheese replacement. This chreese is just one replacement of many. Just go to your local health food store or a organic store and there will be other vegetarian food products to choose from.

If you have being eating cheese and you are a vegetarian you may wish to change your dietary habits. Cheese made with animal rennet may have caused some animal suffering. So you have like three choices, buy cheese alternatives at a health/organic store, purchase vegetarian cheese online and/or look for the label on the cheese that says vegetarian cheese or vegetarian recipe cheese.

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Would you know it, but there is animal byproducts in some sugars. The vegetarian, a strict vegan will not eat sugar. The sugar is sometimes colored white with bone char from of all things cows. So if you are vegetarian that does not want to cause any suffering to animals by you eating sugar then you do have some options.

Beet sugar is your first option, this sugar is never made white by cow bone char. In this way you will be able to completely avoid eating the bone char. The big problem is being able to know what food has the beet sugar. If you read the food label and if it says fructose or dextrose the sugar is from a plant like beets or corn but if it says sucrose it could very well have cow bone char in it.

Some sugar companies state their use on bone char, picking those brands only would be a second choice. These companies are known not to use bone char in their sugar, American Crystal Sugar Company, Sugar in the Raw, Irish Sugar Ltd., Imperial Sugar Company and Florida Crystals. Listen up, you should always contact these companies time from time to see if they have changed the way they make sugar. Brands that are known for using bone char in their sugar is C&H Sugar company, Savannah Foods and Domino.

In the United States there is two types of sugars, cain and beet. The cain sugar is whitened with bone char but on the other hand beet is not whitened with bone char. It will be an challenge to find out whats in all the foods we eat, but if its important to you to be a vegetarian, then its a challenge you can overcome. In lots of cases it will be easy to just read the nutritional label, most of your answers are in there.

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