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enterkylexvx: ashshsh: From duck feathers to pancreatic enzymes, commercial bread provides a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:57:49 -0700

ashshsh:

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.

the-absolute-best-posts: infinitylooper: Something to think...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:04:21 -0700

the-absolute-best-posts:

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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"We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:39:05 -0700

“We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and operate a bumblebee’s wing. We can’t jump or run very fast, and we can’t carry vast weights like an ant can. We can’t see in the dark and we can’t fly except crammed in a noisy tube like sardines, which doesn’t count. Humans compared to animals are almost totally deaf, and we can’t smell a fart in an elevator by their standards. We are finite and separate, and neurotic, while the consciousness of an animal is at peace and eternal. We strive and go crazy to become more important. Animals rest and sleep and enjoy the company of each other. We think we have evolved upwards from animals but we have lost almost all of their qualities and abilities. The idea that animals don’t have consciousness or that they don’t have a soul is rather crass. It shows a lack of consciousness. They talk, they have families, they feel things, they act individually or together to solve problems, they often care of their young as a tribal unit. They play, they travel, and medicate themselves when they get sick. They cry when others in the herd die, they know about us humans. Of course they have a soul, a very pristine one. We humans are only now attempting with the recent rise in consciousness to achieve the soul that animals have naturally.”

- Stuart Wilde (via commovente)

veganmovement2012: Human beings are a part of the animal...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:25:03 -0700

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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Fri, 17 May 2013 22:22:29 -0700

shkunkfeets: voxamberlynn: My heart
Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:34 -0700

shkunkfeets:

voxamberlynn:

My heart

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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Fri, 17 May 2013 10:10:04 -0700

mothernaturenetwork: When Marisa Lynch lost her job last year,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:42:24 -0700

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

kmanovaere: did-you-kno: Source True !

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:17:52 -0700

kmanovaere:

did-you-kno:

Source

True !

intomyveganlife: Protein is plentiful, never restricted! ^_^

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:53:37 -0700

intomyveganlife:

Protein is plentiful, never restricted! ^_^

axelaustteam: Did you know that more than 10 billion animals...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:03:27 -0700

axelaustteam:

Did you know that more than 10 billion animals are raised for dairy, meat and eggs each year in the U.S.? Most of these animals are crammed together by the hundreds or thousands. Not only do these factory farms have poor or nonexistent animal welfare standards—but they’re also environmental nightmares.

Here are the top five ways factory farms are hurting the Earth:

Animal agriculture generates 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, including 9% of carbon dioxide, 65% of nitrous oxide emissions and 37% of methane emissions. Most of that methane comes from belching cows and rotting manure.

In the U.S., confined animals generate three times more raw waste than humans generate. Their manure is commonly stored in open-air “poop lagoons,” which release dangerous toxins such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and methane into the air and leach heavy metals, drugs and other additives given to the animals into the ground water. That’s just gross!

The waste is often used as crop fertilizer and over-applied to nearby fields, resulting in further air pollution and high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen in the water supply.

Excess nitrogen robs water of oxygen and destroys aquatic life.

Factory farms deplete our water by using large volumes for cleaning, cooling and drinking.

The fossil fuels required to raise this staggering number of animals and produce their food emit 90 million tons of carbon dioxide worldwide every year. More than half of the world’s corn is fed to animals, and corn requires more nitrogen fertilizer than any other crop.

So what can you do to help? Check out our

Top 10 Ways You Can Fight Factory Farming—and please share this post with your friends on social media using the hashtag #FactoryFarmsStink.

http://blog.aspca.org/content/too-much-poop-factory-farms-are-hurting-earth

http://www.aspca.org/Fight-Animal-Cruelty/farm-animal-cruelty/10-ways-you-can-help-fight

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: We Heart Meatless Monday

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:42:49 -0700

: We Heart Meatless Monday:

buynothingnewforayear:

If you haven’t heard of Meatless Monday yet, I don’t really need to explain what it’s about, but I’d love to share the Meatless Monday website with you because its a great resource for living more healthfully. And, of course, a place for inspiration on how to go one day a week without…

sweet-decay: chinkyeye0711: SPRING CLEANSE ~ YOUR BODY ~ Yes...

Fri, 03 May 2013 18:53:01 -0700

sweet-decay:

chinkyeye0711:

SPRING CLEANSE ~ YOUR BODY ~ Yes another post about water lol.

But if you really want to cleanse then DRINK, DRINK, DRINK. Here are 8 home made vitamin water recipes to help you keep the water flowing!

As a rule, you should try to avoid as much as possible industrial food and beverages

1) The classical : lemon/cucumber:
Mix in a pitcher: 10 cups of water + 1 cucumber and a lemon, thinly sliced + 1/4 cup fresh finely chopped basil leaf + 1/3 of finely chopped fresh mint leaves. Leave in the refrigerator overnight before serving.

2) The granite : Strawberry/Lime or Raspberry/Lime
Mix in a pitcher : 10 cups of water + 6 strawberries / 0r Raspberries and one thinly sliced lime + 12 finely chopped fresh mint leaves. Leave in the refrigerator overnight before serving.

3) The digestive : Fennel/citrus
First: infuse 1 to 3 grams of dried and crushed fennel in 150 ml of boiling water for 5-10 minutes. Allow to cool.
Mix in a pitcher: 10 cups of water + lemon juice (put the leftover lemon in the mix) + a small thinly sliced orange + 12 fresh chopped mint leaves + the infusion of fennel seeds. Leave in refrigerator overnight before serving.

4) The antiOX : Blackberry/Sage
Note that a part from the berries, sage leafs is the herb that has the highest antioxidant content.
Mix in a pitcher : 10 cups of water + 1 cup of blackberries that have been very slightly crushed + 3-4 sage leaves. Leave in refrigerator overnight before serving.

5) WATERmelon : watermelon/Rosemary
Mix in a pitcher : 10 cups of water + 1 cup of watermelon cut into cubes + 2 rosemary stems. Leave in refrigerator overnight before serving.

6) The exotic : Pineapple/Mint
Mix in a pitcher : 10 cups of water + 1 cup of pineapple cut into cubes + 12 fresh mint leaves finely chopped. Leave in the refrigerator overnight before serving.

7) The traditional : Apple/cinnamon
Mix in a pitcher : 10 cups of water + 1 cup of apple cut into cubes + 2 cinnamon sticks + 2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Leave in the refrigerator overnight before serving.

8.) The zingibir : Ginger/tea
In advance: heat 1 teaspoon of ginger in two cups of tea, let it cool down.

Mix in a pitcher: 10 cups of water with two cups of the ginger tea + 4-5 pieces of fresh ginger cut into cubes. Leave in the refrigerator overnight before serving.

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Seriously: Meatpacking is the most dangerous job in America

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:29:56 -0700

Seriously: Meatpacking is the most dangerous job in America:

lordbandog:

veganamazon:

Since the information about the migrant farm workers is going around, I encourage those of you who eat meat to take a look into the meatpacking industry as well.

Constant fear and risk is a prominent feature of the meat industry. It is one of the most…

Graphene paint could power homes of the future - Telegraph

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:23:32 -0700

Graphene paint could power homes of the future - Telegraph:

shkunkfeets:

Houses could be painted with a new super-material that generates electricity from sunlight and can even change colour on request, following new research.

“Scientists at the University of Manchester used wafers of graphene, the discovery of which won researchers a Nobel Prize, with thin layers of other materials to produce solar powered surfaces.

The resulting surfaces, which were paper thin and flexible, were able to absorb sunlight to produce electricity at a level that would rival existing solar panels.

These could be used to create a kind of “coat” on the outside of buildings to generate power needed to run appliances inside while also carrying other functions too, such as being able to change colour.”

free the mages: PLEASE STOP SPREADING THESE PHOTOS AND CLAIMING IT IS CUTE. IT IS ANIMAL ABUSE. PLEASE SPREAD THE TRUTH.

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:22:35 -0700

free the mages: PLEASE STOP SPREADING THESE PHOTOS AND CLAIMING IT IS CUTE. IT IS ANIMAL ABUSE. PLEASE SPREAD THE TRUTH.:

losers-count-sheep:

Everybody has seen this photo right? With the story that a mother tiger lost her own cubs so “zoologists” from California wrapped up some piglets in cloth so she’d adopt them?

This tiger lives in an appallingly cruel zoo in Thailand, called Sriracha Tiger Zoo….

Organic, non-GMO seeds

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:16:50 -0700

Organic, non-GMO seeds:

shkunkfeets:

http://www.organicaseedco.com

Everything from edible vegetables/fruits to medicinal herbs to tobacco and coffee!

The Earth is what we all have in common.

enterkylexvx: ashshsh: From duck feathers to pancreatic enzymes, commercial bread provides a...

Whey & Casein

Ghee

Lecithin

Enzymes

“Omega 3 Enriched”

Lactate and Lactose

Mono & Di-Glycerides

Dough conditioners

Cultured dextrose

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

Other companies that have vegan bread lines:

the-absolute-best-posts: infinitylooper: Something to think...

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.

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"We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and..."

veganmovement2012: Human beings are a part of the animal...

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mothernaturenetwork: When Marisa Lynch lost her job last year,...

kmanovaere: did-you-kno: Source True !

intomyveganlife: Protein is plentiful, never restricted! ^_^

axelaustteam: Did you know that more than 10 billion animals...

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: We Heart Meatless Monday

sweet-decay: chinkyeye0711: SPRING CLEANSE ~ YOUR BODY ~ Yes...

Seriously: Meatpacking is the most dangerous job in America

Graphene paint could power homes of the future - Telegraph

free the mages: PLEASE STOP SPREADING THESE PHOTOS AND CLAIMING IT IS CUTE. IT IS ANIMAL ABUSE. PLEASE SPREAD THE TRUTH.

Organic, non-GMO seeds

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.