i am currently a veg. (as long as i can stop eating chicken out of chicken salads) and i would like to become a vegan. But how are you always supposed to know what's in things. Like, i dont know if there's milk in something. Is it always going to be listed on the ingredients of the food?
you're not always going to know. you have to realise that once you're vegan, along the way you're gunna eat something with an animal product in it. it's GOING to happen, but the point is to learn from your mistake and not eat that product again. and as you progress, you will be cutting all that stuff out of your diet, more and more. it's not a sudden transition. good luck, and i hope it works for you!
Foods that are produced by the masses are probably more likely to have extra ingredients in them, but usually it will warn you on the package.
Most of my vegan friends are REALLY anal about what they eat. A lot of chemical compounds used in processed foods have animal things in them, with complex names, and they dont want to memorize them all and probably cant, so they wont eat something unless they know for a fact what's in it. Example: I handed my friend Sam a Strawberry Nutri-Grain bar, because theyr'e the most amazing thing in the world, and he wouldn't eat it because he couldn't be sure there was no animal in it.
You know what I hate??? When I'm reading the ingredients to some meat alternative product that looks really reallllly realllllllly good. Then I get to the bottom "contains whey" orrrrrr "contains protein from whey" orrrrrr "Contains honey" I WANT FAKE FISH But I want animals to live happy lives more.
