Curious fact: apparently, crayons are non-vegan. “Fatty acids derived from pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent in crayons and also gives them their distinctive smell.” Other products that incorporate material from dead pigs include “ammunition, train brakes, automobile paint, soap and washing powder, bone china, [and] cigarettes.”
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.
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Animals are in everything. It’s really true that there exists a social-value, or even social-truth which says “it’s alright to consume animals”. And yet, that value is one I don’t want to assent to. Even if I don’t assent to it, it remains overwhelmingly true (true meaning one finds evidence for it everywhere). In a sense, it is “objectively” true – in the sense that it is true without my consent, without me, even if that truth might be contingent, at least historically speaking. I’ve recently been thinking about the extent to which we can ever be independent of these values, even if we consciously reject them and rail against them.
Bounty (chocolate bar)
The product is unsuitable for vegetarians as it contains rennet (whey powder) from cow’s stomach (instead of using using whey from dried cow’s milk) but on the other hand, the product contains no vegetable fat.