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How to identify a vegan supplement?
If I am considering supplements to balance my dietary intake, how do I identify if they are vegan?
To clarify, if I have altered my diet to eliminate eating animals, how can I be sure that my supplements are not from animal sources?
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What are good vegan sources of saturated fats?
Saturated fats have been shown to be less harmful than we have been led to believe. In fact, some believe red meat is to blame for skewing research results against saturated fats:
Conclusion: The results support the hypothesis that animal fat,…
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Are plants grown with animal manure vegan?
Many farmers use a method known as manure to plant vegetables. This manure comes from animals.
Generally vegans don’t benefit from products that come from animals.
So are vegetables that are grown with animal (as opposed to synthetic) manure…
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What changes to infrastructure would have to take place if the whole world became vegetarian or vegan?
Is our current infrastructure well-suited for plant-based diet of majority of population?
I am particulary interested in changes that would be required to our distribution, food production and the process of selling food, but also in other…
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What is the appropriate egg substitute for different types of vegan bakes?
When baking, I often end up working with egg substitutes based on what I have on hand at the moment. I know a few egg substitute tricks including applesauce, flaxseed, chia seeds, or store-bought substitutes such as Vegg and Just Egg (pea…
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Is caviar considered to be vegetarian?
As I understand it, caviar is essentially fish eggs, which should be equally fine for vegetarians as birds' eggs. But I was raised (as a vegetarian) to avoid caviar, although chicken and duck eggs were fine.
What makes caviar "less vegetarian" than…
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Synthesis of fish oil without killing animals
Fish oil is used as a dietary supplement or used to treat certain health conditions, and it is also used a lot as a substance from which pharmaceutical drugs are derived and then sold as drugs.
I would like to know at what stage we're at in the…
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Cyanocobalamin and Methylcobalamin
I am a vegan living in India where the B12 supplements available only contain methylcobalamin and I am taking those. But I have read in Wikipedia and heard on YouTube that cyanocobalamin/adenosylcobalamin is the preferred choice of supplements.…
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Is there any rule of thumb for boiling vegetables so that essential nutrients are not destroyed?
Too much boiling (or frying) may destroy the necessary nutrients of vegetables. Is there any rule of thumb or guideline on how much time vegetables should be heated for?
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Non-Lethal Pest Deterrents in a Home Garden
tl;dr version - How can I keep away destructive insects from the garden, without harming them or pollinators?
So first off, I'm torn between posting this here or the Gardening & Landscaping SE, but I think this would be the right spot because of the…
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Recommendation list: pragmatic vegetarian/vegan cookbooks
There is a considerable amount of people that wish to become vegans/vegetarians for ethical/moral reasons but are not interested in becoming good cooks. Since living off processed food is not an option and vegetarian/vegan restaurants are still rare…
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What do you use instead of butter (on pancakes)?
I just recently started a vegan diet about a month ago.
I've been enjoying several vegan pancake recipes, but I'm not sure what to use instead of butter for the topping? I know some margarines are vegan but not sure if they are all that great for…
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Is "vegetable tanned full grain leather" plant-based or animal-based?
Just saw on Amazon a product with vegetable tanned leather. Is vegetable tanned leather plant-based or animal-based? If it is animal-based, so that I will not buy it, because I am against animal slaughter.
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How to prepare beans and pulses
I have been buying 'Quick Soup Mix' in my local health food store for many years.
(Green split peas, Whole green lentils, Yellow split peas, Red split lentils, Pearl barley, Barley flakes)
The instructions always used to say, "just add to soups and…
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How frequent and regular should protein intake be?
I have a varied, aiming for low-fat vegetarian diet where I eat sometimes vegetables with a bit of bread, sometimes meat industrial substitutes (I try to reduce them), sometimes pasta or rice, sometimes tofu, sometimes leguminous such as lentils,…
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