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Holy shit does 5% of China actually practice veganism? That's wild if true. In the US it's around 1%
I think it could be a religious thing. Long history vegetarianism in Buddhism or Taoism
now if only every single sauce wasn't made with a wheat starter we'd be in business
I mean that's Christian Bale as Mao but you're right it looks kinda like the Cena Mao thing.
Three things that caught my attention:
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Use of 茻 in the Vegan Society's name. Veganism is when you eat lots of grass? :very-intelligent:
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It's a Buddhist vegetarian standard specifically as it does not allow for pungent plants
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Article makes it sound like it would exclude bone char for sugar? Is that the case?
The buddhist standard is a subcategory of this classification. They're just being nice to buddhists :3
What draws you to this inference about bone char in sugar, I'm not familiar with this practice. Have I been getting bones in my sugar?!
iirc, some sugar is filtered through bone char to make it more sparkly white
not everywhere though, sugar made in the uk for example doesn't do this as we use beet to make sugar, not canesadly my chemistry education ended at gcse level, so i have no idea
Stuff like this is so annoying. It's all sugar to me. There were dumb scares about brown sugar when microscopes were discovered and people put out pics that were supposedly all the microbes on the dirty sugar. Similar amounts can be found in regular sugar iirc too it's extra silly
yeah, i agree
why does it even need to be sparkly white in the first place?if it has something to do with shelf life i'd understand but if it's just psychological that annoys me, most sugar ends up invisible
anyways none of this answers the original question of what in the rules makes them worried bone char is gonna considered vegan by China.
anyways none of this answers the original question of what in the rules makes them worried bone char is gonna considered vegan by China.
oh shit, good point, sorry for derailing
who cares. also I derail my own conversations to talk about food on purpose. I've seen a lot of non-bleached looking sugar being used in chinese cooking videos on youtube, anecdotally.
I mean the symbol looks really cool right? And it's kind of a metaphor. And Chinese characters aren't always literal.
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