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If it's worth a read, then what about a link?Well worth a read.
Thank you for the informative reply. To be honest my main concern is getting my blood sugar level down or at least consistent initially so I'm looking at ways to achieve this. The few days I've used oat milk seems to show some improvement and it makes a nice creamy/nutty coffee but as you say it lacks the calcium.
My GM free question was more because the carton I've bought doesn't say anything other than it has no sugars and is "good for you".
I think that oats are unlikely to include GM material, probably not a crop that is of sufficient economic importance to attract the investment.
Interesting article in this week's New Scientist on the benefits of going vegan and some of the problems to look out for. They ran an experiment with 19 of their staff going on a vegan diet (3 were already pescetarians and 3 vegetarians), all showed some health benefits but seemingly didn't need to be on a vegan diet the whole time to achieve this.
This appears to be causing something of a problem between ethical vegans who take an absolute approach and health vegans who are mixing and matching - "vegan before 6(pm)", vegan one or two days a week or one week a month and so on.
Well worth a read.
Research is required....
If it's worth a read, then what about a link?
*still reeling from the whole - honey - thing*
If you want to start a fight amongst vegans, bring up the honey issue. Taboo because it is an animal product and therefore must be cruel or does not harm the bees in any way therefore is ok. Had a fruitless discussion with a vegan fanatic who had discovered I used to keep bees and insisted that it was cruel because we took all their honey and left them to starve over winter - bl**dy idiot.
Actually the biggest 'fight' amongst vegans is the use of eggs!
Many keep chickens as pets, ensure they have a happy, health, free range life style so feel comfortable eating the eggs produced.
Others then kick off saying they're not vegan at all!
I've seen many a Facebook post closed down due to this type of discussion!
Whilst visiting a friend before Christmas she made me a coffee with the only milk she had which happened to be oat milk.
I actually quite enjoyed the taste and this milk seems to have less sugar than cow's milk so I've bought a carton to help try to reduce my blood sugar levels.
Anyway, whilst not professing to becoming a vegan, I was wondering whether all oat milk is GM free or whether some varieties are modified as are some soy products?
If you want to start a fight amongst vegans, bring up the honey issue. Taboo because it is an animal product and therefore must be cruel or does not harm the bees in any way therefore is ok. Had a fruitless discussion with a vegan fanatic who had discovered I used to keep bees and insisted that it was cruel because we took all their honey and left them to starve over winter - bl**dy idiot.
Righto, thanks anywayhttps://www.newscientist.com/articl...find-out-how-much-difference-it-really-makes/
However you probably need to create an account/pay to get at it. Paper version still available in newsagents or if you are very lucky at your local library.
If you want to start a fight amongst vegans, bring up the honey issue. Taboo because it is an animal product and therefore must be cruel or does not harm the bees in any way therefore is ok. Had a fruitless discussion with a vegan fanatic who had discovered I used to keep bees and insisted that it was cruel because we took all their honey and left them to starve over winter - bl**dy idiot.
Righto, thanks anyway
This baffles me above and beyond.
It's almost like people have no idea about how commercial crops that need to be pollinated by insects of some sort are actually pollinated.
Spoiler alert, we keep bees on a MASSIVE scale to make fruit/vegetable production possible
The very last thing i ever said to @henryscat was in this area, ie if you are going to go to the extremes of preserving the sanctity of insect life then you are going to end up a very hungry boy indeed.
No form of agriculture whatsoever can be harm free at the level of insects - they both make food possible and make it potentially impossible, you can't just ignore them.
You use them on the one hand -
to make lovely scented candles, for example, and on the other hand you-
blitz the f**kers you don't like quite as much.
With that much of an in-between, there isn't that much of one that we can play ethics with.
Or is there?
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/kettle-launch-vegan-cheese-onion-17505927
Currently on introductory offer, 85p at Asda, & in my humble opinion they are flippin* lovely!
All Seabrooks crisps are vegan and they are really lovely crisps.