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Hidden animal products in food?
I have a dear friend who will cook luscious vegan food for me which is always a treat. Other friends try very hard to see that there is always something for me to eat when we visit. One sweet friend told me she was amazed at how good the vegetarian vegetable soup was she had made for me. She started naming everything she had added and one ingredient was bouillon cubes. It just doesn’t seem to get through to people that chicken broth, beef broth, and the concentrated bouillon cubes are animal products.
My friend wasn’t trying to trick me, but some of the food corporations have developed ways to disguise animal products in the prepared food we eat. They use words that seem to have come from another planet in order to keep us in the dark about ingredients that would be unacceptable to vegans and vegetarians.
Consider the use of red dye. Many of our fruit juices are colored red or shades thereof using cochineal extract. Cochineal or Cocchineal is a beetle. For the purist, beetles have faces and we don’t knowingly eat anything that has a face. It takes approximately 70,000 crushed Cochineal beetles to make one pound of coloring.
The example I have just cited is only one of the many ways we can be tricked into eating food we would otherwise shun. This is why I am so thrilled about a series of e-books written by Chad Kimball. Not only do the books have a glossary of the ‘hidden’ ingredients in prepared foods and alcoholic beverages, there are sections that tell you what companies test products on animals and those who do not.
