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[โ€“] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Maybe they're using the older and superior definition of vegetarian and consider veganism to be more than a vegetarian diet.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It's not possible to know if they mean it in the "excludes animal products" or short hand for ovo-lacto tho. And where does that leave honey, carmine, lanolin?

    I agree veganism is more than food, but I trust vegan on a label more than vegetarian or plant based because it's more likely to mean they exclude animal products from all the unlisted components, or items that can come from more than one source.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Today I also trust a vegan stamp more than a vegetarian one when it comes to food labels. I also learnt that while vegetarian mainly meant strict vegetarian in sweden until the 1990s it wasn't so in the anglosphere. There was some rich biblical folks who wanted in on the word and diluted it to mean lacto-ovo-vegetarian in 1847.
    I was not a wee lad in the 1840s that's for sure.
    https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=2622%3Ahistory-salt-dairy&catid=72

    Regarding products from insects I don't really see how them having an exoskeleton makes it more okay.
    Regarding lanolin I'd say its the same as with wool. The sheep that was sheared has been or will be slaughtered and buying the byproducts aid that reality.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 day ago

    Regarding products from insects I don't really see how them having an exoskeleton makes it more okay.
    Regarding lanolin I'd say its the same as with wool. The sheep that was sheared has been or will be slaughtered and buying the byproducts aid that reality.

    What I meant with those examples is that using vegetarian vs ovo-lacto vegetarian only lets you know if it's free of flesh or free of flesh and eggs and milk. It doesn't acknowledge the other types of animal derived ingredients.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    What do you mean?

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    That when I was a wee lad a vegetarian diet meant abstaining eating any animal products, not just skipping meat. Those that consumed biproducts added prefixes, f.e. lacto-ovo-vegetarians eating both dairy and eggs.
    Veganism meant not using animal products at all, not just abstaining from eating them.

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