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RE: Beginner's Guide to Vegan Grocery Shopping
Oreos are not vegan. Their sugar is processed using bone char and they have cross contact with milk products.
https://www.everythingvegan.com/blogs/is-it-vegan/are-oreos-vegan
If you have a problem with honey, then refined sugar is just as bad, if not worse.
Bone char seems to generally be a problem in the US. It is not a practice that occurs in Australia/NZ/Europe, so you're safe there. I can't speak for other countries.
Not all oreos are vegan and the link you have provided has explained enough about the fine line of determining what's vegan or not. A lot of products have possible cross contamination with milk products because they are manufactured in the same factory which is inevitable at this point in time. However the point of restraining myself from consuming/purchasing products with animal products in it is to encourage the economy to grow in a more humane direction. It doesn't mean that I am allergic and will be sick because of cross contamination. There is a difference.
Just because I don't want to use honey doesn't mean I only use refined sugars. You can use non refined vegan sweeteners such as pure maple syrup, agave, date or coconut nectar.
Thank you for your input.
Once the meat industry stops, there will be no animal bones to grind down, hence no bone char. They will use charcoal or some other material. I beleive Jack Daniels use the charcoil from their used barrels to filter the whiskey vs using animal bone char.
That's actually really cool I've never heard about that one. But I agree once that industry stops there will be non animal alternatives for everything but it's a long process that doesn't just happen overnight.