VEGAN recipe in vegetariantimes not really vegan

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I sent this e-mail to the editors of vegetariantimes.com. I know they are not a

vegan magazine or website, but they have a recipe for vegan pumpkin pie which I

posted (but had to modify). The misuse of the word vegan really pissed me off!

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Hi

I came accross your recipe for VEGAN PUMPKIN PIE and thought, thats great! If

someone has a vegan guest, they can make this for them.

HOWEVER the recipe calls for " soymilk or buttermilk " . It also calls for " honey

or sugar " . If this is supposed to be a vegan recipe - it's not. It actually says

it's a dairy free recipe. How is buttermilk non-dairy?

Im dissapointed that a vegetarian magazine of your calibre makes the same

mistake that most meat eaters make- not knowing the definition of animal

products.

Whats up with that?

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In a message dated 12/3/2000 11:35:23 AM Pacific Standard Time,

lee_leblanc3257 writes:

 

 

> I found their response to wholly inadequate. They

> didn't say " Oh, hey, you're right, we admit to making

> a mistake. We are sorry for offeding any vegans. We

> will reprint a correction to the recipe. Thank you for

> pointing out the error we made. "

>

> I don't mean to criticize you because after all, I am on your side as a

> vegan but look. You are expecting a vegetarian magazine to be informed

> about the vegan way of life? As a former vegetarian who spent 20 years

> thinking I was doing the right thing and living the good life per se, I

> have to tell you that there is a lot of chipping away to do here. i

> remember thinking vegans were simply crazy and being offended when I read

> an article in VT or a recipe that was vegan. that was before I got on the

> Internet and became educated. it's a shame it took that. If I had the

> resources before me years ago I could have made a more intelligent

> decision!

> Anyway, let's support these folks for providing as many recipes that are

> vegan that they do. In all honestly, I really see this magazine moving in

> the vegan direction. What we need is a revamp of the word vegetarian to

> mean what is says which is absolutely no animal products. in the meantime,

> I think there are bigger fish to fry than VT for not being perfect to the

>

 

 

 

 

 

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I found their response to wholly inadequate. They

didn't say " Oh, hey, you're right, we admit to making

a mistake. We are sorry for offeding any vegans. We

will reprint a correction to the recipe. Thank you for

pointing out the error we made. "

 

Buuuuuttt, let's not forget it does take a really

sound person/ or organization to admit when they're

wrong and acknowledge they're not perfect. Or perhaps

they don't realize how much power the written word

holds so what's the big deal between soymilk,

breastmilk, cowmilk, whose milk what milk? What's a

little spilt milk? Or it's only a little honey? Or

they could just be ignorant? But then again, they are

a leading publication of vegetarian information? But

even still, they don't have a responsibility to

produce and distribute accurate information, do they?

Oh well, we're probably just making a big deal about

nothing. I think I'll let them go tell the cows that.

 

 

--- Bliss <bliss wrote:

> I sent this e-mail to the editors of

> vegetariantimes.com. I know they are not a vegan

> magazine or website, but they have a recipe for

> vegan pumpkin pie which I posted (but had to

> modify). The misuse of the word vegan really pissed

> me off!

> ---

> Hi

> I came accross your recipe for VEGAN PUMPKIN PIE and

> thought, thats great! If someone has a vegan guest,

> they can make this for them.

> HOWEVER the recipe calls for " soymilk or

> buttermilk " . It also calls for " honey or sugar " . If

> this is supposed to be a vegan recipe - it's not. It

> actually says it's a dairy free recipe. How is

> buttermilk non-dairy?

> Im dissapointed that a vegetarian magazine of your

> calibre makes the same mistake that most meat eaters

> make- not knowing the definition of animal products.

>

> Whats up with that?

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