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"vegetarian, but not vegan" progresso soup can

I've seen this question asked a lot for this specific brand on Reddit.

I'll just copypaste one answer given a few weeks ago from someone called "goosie7":

General Mills guidelines on labeling:

Vegetarian: General Mills vegetarian products may contain dairy, egg and bee products (e.g. honey, bees wax). They shall not contain ingredients of other animal origin (mammalian, poultry, fish, crustacean, mollusk, insect) including additives. This is also known as Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian. Microbial derived ingredients (e.g. enzymes) and small amounts of animal-derived ingredients that do not require the harming of an animal (for example, Vitamin D derived from sheep’s wool) are acceptable. NOTES: Prohibited ingredients include but are not limited to: gelatin and carmine. In addition, we ensure that the food label does not include a cross-contact allergen label for fish, crustacean or mollusk.

Vegan: General Mills vegan products shall not contain any ingredient of animal origin (mammalian, poultry, fish, crustacean, mollusk, insect) and shall not contain any animal derivatives (dairy, egg and bee products) including additives and processing aids. Microbial derived ingredients are acceptable (e.g. enzymes). NOTES: Prohibited ingredients include but are not limited to: sugar processed through bone char, L-cysteine hydrochloride processed from human hair or duck feathers, carmine and vitamin D3 derived from sheep’s wool. In addition, we ensure that the food label does not include a cross-contact allergen label for fish, crustacean or mollusk.

It's most likely sugar processed with bone char, which according to them is vegetarian but not vegan.

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What are your boundaries when dating as a vegan?

I'd love them to be vegan just to make our lives easier but I'm kind of used to since all my friends are meat eaters anyway. I'm just getting back to the market after breaking a long term relationship with a vegetarian, so I'm not sure yet where to put my boundaries, it is said that the 0,7% of the population in my country is vegan, so I may die single looking for a vegan partner.

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Etsy Bans Animal Fur

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Yeah I had the same question but I guess that this very specific language just answers it, it does not include leather and why not? because money like always. There is a huge market on leather.

This is great news anyway, and it could be the first step to include leather one day.

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In which cases exactly they are free of suffering? I can't understand how you can believe that.

I mean have you seen the automated shakle line before the electric stun bath? Can you imagine yourself being put on this while someone tells you "no worries, you are not suffering"

You can see it in video I shared before, the whole process is shown, from birth to death.

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Lab grown meat isn't going to save us...

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I can tell you that it was really hard to make that connection for me. 5 long years since I was first introduced to vegetarianism, a shroom trip, watching Dominion and Earthlings multiple times, the book "Tender is the flesh", and a course on generating compassion. I really made an effort to make the connection happen because I was convinced that it was the right thing but still I loved meat and couldn't say no to it, and the memories of the slaughtered animals were there too.

When my brain finally clicked I couldn't see meat as food anymore and went vegan, but meanwhile I couldn't stop wanting it, and not thinking too much about the issue while eating was easy.

I feel there's more to it for the whole issue. A strong attachment to the taste of meat is one. I have a friend that stopped being vegan and I'm sure the reason is this attachment too. And it is really hard to see it because there are a lot of mechanisms trying to convince you that it is not attachment. And I feel that this attachment kills the compassion/empathy.

I'm not 100% sure about it but I think my brain finally clicked when I was doing this compassion course. So maybe it was having a low empathy for animals the problem after all. But that was something hidden for myself, if you asked me back then about animals, I would tell you the typical bullshit about me loving animals and so forth. It was a lie that I believed myself. And that's something to be aware of because I think most of the people are on the same page.

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I guess it appears in the local Lemmy.world feed which is followed by much more random people and a bigger audience, while solarpunks are mostly people who care about ecology.

Slrpnk.net for a happy safe place and Lemmy.world to fight and shitpost with carnists.

The second one can be useful in certain contexts, after all we have a message to share with the world, even if we get shunned by it.

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Okay, I literally checked in the dictionary what the word means. Showing kindness, care and sympathy.

Shit now I understand, I forgot to ask you, do you want to die for my bbq?

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But you won't get emotional nor make a drama about it, right?

It will be painless and you will be gone with a smile in your face knowing that your body parts will serve a purpose to make my friends happy for a while in my great BBQ!

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Indian food is saving so many lives

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Regarding the minimally unethical are you sure about that?

Like do you know what happens to the male born chicks? Or what happens to the hens that stop giving eggs? Or in what conditions do they live? And about dairy, do you know what happens to male born calves? And what happens with the cow when she stops producing milk? And how the cow feels when their children are taken from her?

My friend, eggs and dairy are even more brutal that meat industry, which they are the same industry by the way.