MN Vegetarians ... do you eat meaty white sugar?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Someone told me recently that her child couldn't have white sugar because it is refined with animal bones.

'Bollox' thought I! But it turns out, it's (somewhat) true.

Soon there will be NOTHING LEFT for me to eat.

That is quite possibly the single most disgusting thing i have learned today.

You can have sugar beet sugar. And you can have non-white sugar (but beware, lots of the brown sugars out there are really white sugar with added molasses, because, yeah, the food industry is weird).

But naturally light brown cane should be fine - they use the bone to whiten it, as a sort of filter. And demerrara should be fine.

And I'd bet most processed foods with sugar in them have HFCS, rather than sugar cane. And I'm sure they don't use bone to make HFCS.

(Personally I am not bothered about this, because I eat meat ... but I think of myself as well-informed on vegetarian stuff, and was startled to find out this one ...)

No I don't, for this reason amongst others I use organic unrefined. >smug

ah, but shrooms, is it fair trade?

wtf are molasses?

Hahahahahaha...
Yes. Am food snob.
However I should admit that this is only the plain sugar that I buy, I don't really go as far as that in things like when eating out or the kids get a few 'health food shop sweets'... I am a sinner. >hangs head in shame and gets back in her place, several pegs down

molasses is a bit like darker golden syrup

I get vegan sugar from the health food shop.

Molasses is American for treacle. At least, that's what it seems like to me - it's the stuff left over from sugar cane when you've made sugar, iyswim - all the nutrition etc is in there.

I've never noticed sugar being labelled as vegan. I'll have to go through my cupboards now.

I think that in the UK 'silver spoon' brand is beet, whereas Tate and Lyle is cane. Didn't T&L recently announce all their production was moving to Fair Trade?
Never heard this before though, pretty disgusting. Molasses is even less refined than black treacle and has more something or other in it.

Tate & Lyle always been fairtrade they claimed, may also mostly be vegan except their icing sugar (says this website).

do normal condoms contain meat?

Well, there are lamb ones, which are made from lamb intestine. I'm not kidding. But they're not good against HIV, from what I recall.

Ah, some contain casein, which a site I found describes as 'a substance made from animals' - I'm pretty sure it's milk protein, so ok for vegetarians, but not vegans.

I mean, if you count 'things you put on a dick' as being the same as 'things you eat', which I'm not sure people do, do they?

I should bloody hope so, beautifuldays, or what's the bloody point?

Sorry - but what is HFCS? please?

Is it natural or mucked about with

colditz!

It's pretty processed.