The Vegan Thread

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Good read for the analog photographers on the ADOX website - May I use film if I am a Vegan?

It’s a bloody mine field this vegan stuff.

I was there in January a few years ago and I totally agree with you... it was cold and wet every day we were there... fun though!

Had my first mince pie yesterday bought from Affinity Foods in Brighton... if you're anywhere near there, go grab one!!!!

Had a pretty good one (mince pie) in Blackbird cafe for the SE London contingent.

Anyone been to Stockholm and have any recommendations? We're going to be there over Xmas and particularly looking for somewhere for the 24th & 25th.... I'm worried we'll struggle on the 24th as that's the main Swedish Xmas day....

Blew my mind that not all sugar is

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Did you mean Infinity Foods?

Met a geezer, through work, back in the earlt '90s, who had made a career working for Leiner Gelatin in South Wales, flying out to buy huge piles of beef bones from India, to be processed into gelatin. Thier main (/most profitable) market was supplying camera film companies.
Met another geezer, in the early '00s, who had a business exporting unneeded industrial plant from the UK.
You've guessed it; the worst smelling equipment he ever dealt with was from the closed Leiner Gelatin plant in South Wales.

Yea that's the one :) Trying to find some local to me now as it got my buds going for some more

I think they're dry goods are stocked pretty well in London but not sure about any fresh stuff.

Asda's generic mince pies are 6 for 80p and the box is actually labelled as vegan....

Lyon's mincers also vegan - available in Costcutter, 99p for 6.

I’d love to know what that guy is actually reacting to.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/magikarp-guy

Good read for the analog photographers on the ADOX website - May I use film if I am a Vegan?

I read that a while ago and disagreed with it. So some people did research for 20 years in the fifties and sixties and failed--that doesn't mean it's going to remain that way forever. Science and technology move on. The author's claim that 'no animals are killed especially for making gelatin(e)' is also rather irrelevant. A large point of being vegan is precisely not to accept any of the further profit-enhancing by-products of the animal corpse industry.

A much stronger argument would be that since the physical film industry has shrunk to be so small, nobody is going to invest in further research but is instead going to continue using existing technology.

And 'human kettle raising'? What the hell is that? :)

It’s a bloody mine field this vegan stuff.

No, the minefield is the existing state of society in being built to such a large extent on exploitation of animal corpses. Being vegan means not stepping on any of the mines. :)

Can anyone recommend a good protein recovery powder?

Hemp protein is pretty good and has reasonably complete amino acid profile... I haven't tried it though, so can't really say. Apparently it doesn't mix easily but people seem to rate it.
I use a combination of rice/pea protein but the farts are THE WORST. Apparently a pea protein thing. Waiting to run out and switch to something less offensive.

I have a banana and peanut butter smoothie. No idea how much protein it has, but I just really like them.

Just out of curiosity, because protein supplements have been mentioned before, is it because you are afraid you don’t get enough protein?

Cool, there's quite a few and some decent offers. Thanks