ingredients

Hi all — fellow label-reader here. The thing that always got me, especially travelling or buying imported stuff, is how many animal-derived ingredients hide behind names you'd never guess: carmine, gelatin, shellac, isinglass, mono- and diglycerides, certain E-numbers... and it's ten times...

Hey everyone, I am having a real hard time here. I’m a vegetarian, and have been for 15 years (since 7th grade). Back then I didn’t really do research on why I could or could not have being a vegetarian. But something came up recently where I’m learning I literally have to contact all these...

I practiced vegetarianism for 4 or 5 years and had no problems with the lifestyle at all but due to personal problems I had to move back in with my parents who simply could not afford to pay for vegetarian and omnivorous diets and I was out of work at the time so I either ate meat or starved. I...