new vegan web site

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basically, in light of the recent McDonalds fries incident and my

mom's brain cancer which i blame mostly on aspartame, i've decided to

start a page that inquires about every product listing " Natural

Flavors " as an ingredient.

 

i still have punkforum.com's old account with SQL Server 7 and ASP

that i have paid up to november on.

 

i'm going ot use it for a vegan/excitotoxin product information page.

 

it'll have two faces... and essentially be two sites... for people

interested in either subject... but will use the same database and

have some amount of cross-advertising

 

i wrote, quickly, an preliminary envisioning doc

 

please let the suggestions fly

 

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VEEGUN.COM - PHASE 1 - Envisioning Doc - rev. 5.18.2001

 

Veegun.com will help vegans determine if products containing " natural

flavors " and ingredients that may or may not be animal derived are

vegan. This page will also contain information for people worried

about MSG and other carcinogens in their food, and may have another

url/face specifically for people with these concerns.

 

Goals of this website are to:

 

· make life easier for health-conscious consumers.. for every product

we list as a non-option, veegun.com will suggest other alternatives

· dispel rumors

· be highly dynamic and allow many people to constantly add new

information. personally, i'm sick of the average, static vegan site…

or sites with nothing more than recipes

· remind the food industry of our presence with our incessant phone

calls to them

· recruit people into our healthier lifestyle

 

Members will be able to sign up and choose whether they consume the

following products:

 

· meat

· gelatin

· dairy

· eggs

· refined sugar

· honey

· products exposed to cross-contamination

· monosodium glutamate

· hydrolyzed products

· aspartame

· sodium nitrate

· bht

· saccharin

· potassium bromate

 

Users will be presented with categories and lists of foods that,

according to their profiles, they can or cannot eat. Users will be

able to add comments, search for products and browse by category.

 

Other features will include:

 

· messageboard/rumor bin

· articles

· links

 

Administrators will be able to:

 

* Add an item to the database. This will be a time-consuming

procedure, requiring a call to the company making the item,

confirming a list of questions and entering every ingredient into the

database.

· Post articles.

· Post links

 

Issues to be resolved before launch:

 

Many food products are not national. The question is raised as to

whether or not we attempt to list every location the item is known to

reside, or if users are just going to figure that our for themselves.

 

The locality issue goes for restaurants too. I have not decided if

restaurants are going to be included in the Phase 1. I think it is

important, especially assuming so many vegans/vegetarians just assume

tofu/fries are vegan at restaurants, when one never really knows for

sure. Restaurants will, however, be much more time consuming and

probably much more difficult to obtain truthful information from.

 

At least a dozen administrators are needed, and a general knowledge

of the various concerns is going to have to be proven.

 

please email all feedback to ignu