06-11-2018, 12:01 PM
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(06-10-2018, 08:14 AM)Quan Wrote: Good luck with new venture with your daughter, it can be looked at as a tough thing to do but on the other side its a new exiting world of different foods to experiment with and so forth, new chapter in a book so to speak.
Yes, it is! I was in our supermarket last night and looked through the vegan alternatives. WOW! I am glad that there is a lot to choose! It feels like indeed a new and exciting world is opening!
The only thing that bothers me is that there is a lot of soya beans used in these products due to the high protein content in the soya bean. I researched soya production, and it showed that 80 % of this production goes directly to our animals used for meat and milk. So, there it is! Just another heavy reason for stopping eating dairy and meat products.
Soya production, especially in Brazil, is sometimes equalled to palm oil production. And though, eating soya products is not as bad as eating dairy and meat, it is still not something that I want to choose to do, unless it is certified and biologically sustainable soya and palm oil. For instance, last night when I was going through all those vegan products, I looked at one sour cream product used for cooking. It contained both palm oil and soya which was not certified. What were they thinking of there, when producing it? If they do make an effort to make a vegan sour cream for cooking, why choose products in it which still destroy our planet and make animals suffer (like orangutangs in palm oil industry)? But good thing is that many products do use certified palm oil and soya beans.