the-more-u-know:

Once you have read this (10 DISGUSTING FACTS ABOUT FAST FOOD) it is unlikely that you would want to go to eat at a fast food restaurant again. These unbelievable though 100% true facts are good enough to stop me from going to such places.

• This is actually among one of the worst facts about fast food. The average fast food consumer consumes 12 public hairs in any given year.
• Bacteriophages have been given approval by the FDA to be used on processed food like hot dogs, cutlet, lunch meat etc.
• The cheese available to you In the market that is labeled as processed is just half of what you want (the product) while the rest of the product is additives, chemicals and flavoring that has nothing to do with the product.
• FDA has given approval for an average of 30 insect fragments that includes rodent hair per 100 grams of peanut butter.
• Shellac a product used to give improved shining to the wood and furniture could be a member in your stomach, since it is also used for food product.
• Salad is considered to be the healthiest option among fast food patron, but very little is known about its packing in an antifreeze compound, Propylene Glycerol that is known to cause eye and skin irritation.
• You must not have noticed that that the chicken items listed in the fast food chains contains beefs additives, that is been mentioned as an essence or an extract and is used to improve the flavor and change its health or nutritional stats.
• Every can of coke you consume has a lot of sugar in it, around 10 teaspoon of sugar, which is hell more than your body would want daily. It is just because of an additive phosphoric acid which lowers the level of sugar that you don’t puke out automatically after having the can.
• MacDonald itself uses a bizarre blend of 50 chemicals like those of ethyl acetate, phenethyl alcohol and solvent to match the taste of real strawberry.
• Chicken is the worst of all! It is obtained as slurry of pink paste by a chemical procedure, causing extreme bacterial growth, so it has to be cleaned in ammonia and then have to be added with essence that is more chemicals. Furthermore it is dyed to get the exact color. So just think what you are buying isn’t worth consuming, and think before ordering some chicken nuggets mate.

So what are you waiting for, share this post with your friends.. If you are a fast food freak and now, since you know these disgusting facts about fast food, you certainly need to change your diet.

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opinionatedcheese:

It baffles me when people say “I love animals” yet proudly proclaim that they will continuously and unapologetically eat them. They’ll talk about how many dog and/or cat companions they have, but they’ll hold such little regard for the animals they eat. Cows, pigs,…

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From duck feathers to pancreatic enzymes, commercial bread provides a whole new collection of reasons for everyone to learn how to decipher an ingredients list.

Any processed food, including bread, is likely to have a block paragraph of polysyllabic ingredients printed on its packaging. Many of these are not household words, so it can be difficult to recognize whether or not many of the ingredients are animal-derived and, unfortunately, many of them are. What follows is a list of some of the most common nonvegan ingredients found in bread and other commercial baked goods.

(Some of the more obvious items, like eggs, milk and honey, have been omitted.)

Whey & Casein

Whey is possibly one of the most common nonvegan ingredients you will come across in bread. Both casein and whey are by-products of milk and cheese production, and therefore involve the same cruelty associated with any other dairy product.

Ghee

Ghee is clarified butter found in some Indian products, including naan and roti bread.

Lecithin

While modern lecithin is usually derived from soybeans, it can be made from egg yolks, so make sure you know which type you’re getting.

Enzymes

Although the enzymes used in bread seem to generally be fungal-based, there are several non-vegan enzymes used in commercial bread production. This includes one such ingredient called phospholipase, an enzyme derived from pig pancreatic tissue.

Determining whether or not various enzymes are vegan can be a challenge on its own since they can be derived from a number of sources, including animal, vegetable, bacterial, or fungal.. The Vegetarian Resource Group provides a few helpful examples: lactase (fungal), lipase (animal or fungal), papain (vegetable), pectinase (fruit), protease (animal, vegetable, bacterial, or fungal), rennet (animal), and trypsin (animal). Even so, many labels will not elaborate past “enzymes”, meaning a call to the company is in order before purchase.

“Omega 3 Enriched”

Omega 3 can be derived from plant sources or from fish. If the product contains any fish or fish-derived substances, it should be indicated somewhere on the packaging. If you don’t see it on the ingredients panel, take a look immediately below for allergy information.

Lactate and Lactose

Lactate and lactic acid may sound like they’re dairy-derived, but many “lac” ingredients are created through a fermentation process using cornstarch or beet sugar. There are, however, some exceptions.  Sterol lactate is not vegan due to the stearic acid, derived from animal fat. Lactose is always milk-derived.

Mono & Di-Glycerides

Mono-Glycerides and Di-Glycerides are emulsifiers to help a bread’s texture. They can be derived from a variety of sources including animals or plants, and they can also be synthetic. Much of the time they are made from soybean oil.

Dough conditioners

These ingredients are very common in mass produced bread products.  Dough conditioners are used for many reasons, but primarily they’re included to improve the texture and appearance of the bread.

• L-cysteine ~ L-cysteine is used as a dough conditioner and flavor enhancer.  It is most commonly derived from duck feathers and, less frequently, from pigs’ bristles and hooves. In some Asian countries, L-cysteine is also derived from human hair.
• Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate & Calcium Stearoyl Lactylate ~ These ingredients can be either animal or plant-derived, and their source will not be immediately obvious from the packaging.
• Datem ~ DATEM, an acronym of Diacetyl Tartrate ester of Monoglyceride, is a blend of several different emulsifying agents.  While many of these agents are plant-derived, many are also animal-derived.  Unfortunately, this will not be clear from the ingredients list.

Cultured dextrose

This is an antimicrobial agent derived from dairy cultures, which is added to food products to act as a preservative.

Enriched flour: Folic Acid, Niacin, Riboflavin, Thiamine, and Iron

When a product claims to contain “enriched” or “fortified” flour, it’s generally referring to the ingredients listed above.  (Folic acid, Niacin, Riboflavin, and Thiamine are B vitamins.)  Now, this will sound frustratingly repetitive, but these ingredients can be derived from vegan or nonvegan sources.  However, they are most often synthetically produced and considered to be vegan ingredients.  It is also worth noting that terms like “enriched” and “fortified” can be misleading.  The reason these vitamins are added to the flour in the first place is to offset the effects of the refining process during which the naturally occurring nutrients are stripped away.

This is by no means an exhaustive compilation of the ingredients you may encounter in the bread aisle.  The Vegetarian Resource Group offers an extensive ingredient dictionary, and there are many smartphone apps for looking up ingredients.

Thankfully, there are many vegan breads sold at health food stores, and some even in grocery stores (such as Alvarado St Bakery’s vegan products – note: some flavors contain honey). Some farmers’ markets also have good-quality vegan breads for sale. (Just make sure you get a full ingredients list before buying.) Many brands of tortillas and pita are also vegan.

Other companies that have vegan bread lines:

French Meadow Bakery
Ezekiel
Food for Life® Baking Co.
Rudi’s Bakery
Pacific Bakery
Note: Bob’s Red Mill has some excellent vegan bread mixes that can be made by hand or in a bread machine.

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infinitylooper:

Something to think about:

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.

This isn’t sustainable.

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veganmovement2012:

Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of “us” and “them” creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.

~ Marc Bekoff ~

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voxamberlynn:

My heart </3

at this point it is no longer an issue with your personal beliefs about your health, but more so an issue with your personal beliefs about another sentient being’s ability to live a happy life, and experience the joys of childhood, motherhood, and love. I don’t care if you want to put certain things in your body, that IS up to you. If you happen to have chickens who dropped unfertilized eggs, and you feel like eating them, whatever. They don’t mind, and you don’t mind, so I see no issue with that.

But I am still astounded that so many people get on me for “comparing a cow to a human being” when I say that humans RAPE these females (i.e. forcibly and PAINFULLY impose artificial sex/fertilization upon them) and then horrifically tear them away from their newborns with no regard to their emotions. Anyone who has had a pet knows that they feel everything we do, and for us to ignore that and treat them like they don’t understand what’s happening to them……it makes me sick to my stomach. It makes me extremely saddened, and to even begin to try imagining what they see and hear and feel on a regular basis is too much for me to handle. If a human were in this predicament, the world would be in outrage. We think we’re the smartest species on the planet and yet we refuse to acknowledge that we are in tune with everything else living and not living, and that we COULD give respect and love in place of enslaving and torturing…..but instead we ignore these abilities, and push forward stubbornly ignoring the fact that our taste buds can be satisfied in many ways that do not involve blatant violence and cruelty.

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mothernaturenetwork:

When Marisa Lynch lost her job last year, she went looking for a project and found it: 365 days. 365 pieces of clothing. $365. She started her blog, New Dress A Day, and began transforming frightening thrift-store finds into envy-worthy fashions for just a dollar a day.

For the entire year Lynch didn’t do any traditional clothes shopping, which means none of her items contributed to the loss of energy or raw materials required to produce new garments. Although her 365-day project is over, Lynch is still giving second life to old muumuus and prom dresses.

9 bloggers’ yearlong green journeys

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kmanovaere:

did-you-kno:

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True !

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intomyveganlife:

Protein is plentiful, never restricted! ^_^

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