Do you vegans eat food where the product says it may contain trace amounts of milk?

Question

Do you vegans eat food where the product says it may contain trace amounts of milk?

Answer 1

Trace amounts count as milk. However manufactured in a factory doesn't really count. I'm sure some stay away though.

Answer 2

I'll give the same answer I gave when you asked this earlier

I'm happy to eat  products whose labels say they MAY contain trace amounts of milk.

Those warnings aren't put there for vegans, it's put there for allergy sufferers; the product has been manufactured or prepared in premises or using equipment that has also been used to prepare something made using milk. The equipment's thoroughly cleaned between uses, and the warning is to cover the company's back in the extremely unlikely event that a microscopic amount of milk product remains and a lactose intolerant person is affected.

That's why the 'may contain traces of' list might include nuts, sesame and other common allergens.

Answer 3

No. I avoid any and all products that "may contain" anything that is derived from an animal.

Answer 4

some do and some dont

Answer 5

I'm very picky about those. I won't eat it if it says trace amounts but I will if it says manufactured on machinery that produces milk and egg products. I mean it was only manufactured on the machinery so I would believe it's good enough.

Answer 6

As Mockingbird pointed out, if it's not in the ingredients list, it's usually listed for people with allergies.  It's called shared machinery, and a lot of otherwise vegan products are made in factories or on machinery used to make nonvegan goods.  Usually, it will say that it's shared machinery rather than it contains traces of milk/eggs/whatever.

I feel that buying items whose ingredients are vegan but may contain traces because of shared machinery creates more demand for animal-friendly items.  One theory I heard was that the more people who buy items that are vegan, even on shared machinery, the more demand is created for vegan items, and hopefully, there will eventually be dedicated machinery.

Answer 7

No vegans don't consume dairy. Even trace amounts.

Answer 8

Milk is natural,but I drink soy milk because It contains better nuitriants.

Answer 9

Depends on the vegan this is also like it being manufactured in a plant that is near eggs and milk etc.

But I am a vegan and I would since most products are like that, and it is just cross contamination, as well most of the vegans I know would as well.

Answer 10

If it's not an ingredient and the only reason that warning is on there is for people with severe allergies, yes.  What that means is not that there is milk in the product, it means it was manufactured in a facility that also manufacturers products with milk and there is a risk, however small, of cross-contamination.  Veganism is not a quest for personal purity, and I feel like I am doing the animals good by not creating an economic demand for their suffering or death and, in turn, creating a demand for products made without animal ingredients.  Lots of smaller companies that are producing vegan products cannot afford their own factories and, if we don't support them anyway, they won't be able to afford to bring their products to market at all.  I'd rather risk a microgram of milk than send the message that there's no market for otherwise vegan products.

Answer 11

It just means that they use the same equipment for a product with the stated ingredient, it doesn't mean that there is any detectable amount in the product that is labeled.

The surfaces are cleaned between different products.

Those are just warnings for people with EXTREME allergies. There is no ethical dilemma for people that eat a vegan diet unless it is part of the actual ingredients list.

Answer 12

Some are still wondering the veganism is so great, but not. It is a transition and ongoing process making a person to a Puritanism. As much as possible, as practical as possible, should capable to influence others--especially his own spouse & kids. That is the first "audition".

Pure Vegetarianism (or veganism) is the new Puritanism. This is my belief. It is also one of my arguments against vegetarianism, and although it may at first seem a flippant argument, I believe that it is very powerful. Veganism is miserable. It attacks one of life’s greatest and surest pleasures - enjoying good food. Anything which makes people less happy is bad.

The jump from not liking meat very much, to banning oneself from eating any of it ever, is a huge one, and one which is made by people behaving in a religious manner. If one didn’t approve of certain pork farming practices, one would not then refuse at a dinner party at someone else’s house to eat a stew because it had been cooked in the same pot as some beef mince. One would not read the label of a packet of ice cream to see if there were “non-dairy fat” in it, nor look at the label of some jam to see if gelatin has been used. That people go to these wild extremes is proof that their behaviour is religious in nature, and not rational.