{"id":297,"date":"2017-09-21T11:20:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T09:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theband.at\/?p=297"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T09:21:11","slug":"veganism-thoughts-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Veganism – thoughts about"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having lived an almost vegan lifestyle for close to 3 years offered me a position\u00a0to at least talk about it.<\/p>\n

While the\u00a0\"\"<\/a>actual claims about the benefits of Veganism are at least questioned, see here<\/a>, this is not what I want to talk about.<\/p>\n

What I want to talk about is what happens when a trend like Veganism, with its health claims, gets picked up by Big Food.<\/p>\n

You had a company that produced cheap cookies for instance. Because of their price point they couldn’t afford real butter, so resorted to using margarine or hydrogenated palm oil.<\/p>\n

While even the most optimistic product manager saw that as a clear flaw, suddenly it became an asset. A big green V on the packaging, and voila, your foremost cheapie cookie is no a truly vegan fest.<\/p>\n

It’s astounding how much hyper-processed, cheaply produced food get’s rebranded as Vegan today, in the hope to cash in on the health claims. The vegan community is playing accomplice in return of mass-promotion for their agenda. This needs to stop. Vegans, you’re not doing yourself or your lifestyle any favor here. Step up. Expose. And most important of all: don’t buy that junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many companies these days seem to rebrand their cheapest products as vegan, and marking the price up. Because cheap often means no animal products, but highly processed plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubidu.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}