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From:	Roxanne (c-71-195-218-157.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Subject:	What am I?
Date:	April 8, 2006 at 9:49 pm PST

In response to the veg*ner than thou postsm, I am really confused about where I stand. I call myself a vegan, never buying anything that I know has meat, eggs, milk, honey or any oddly-termed by-products. I don't eat breads that use lecithin, I don't eat soups that use beef or chicken broths. But much to my discretion, I sometimes make exceptions. For instance, my multi-vitamins (the only ones I can afford) have geletin and I eat bread that my school cafeteria sells even though it might have milk in it (I still haven't gotten a straight answer from the lunch ladies, but it doesn't hit my lactose intolerance so I've allowed it to stay). I even ate lo mein at my friend's 18th birthday party because they ordered it specially so I could have something vegetarian to eat . . . they didn't know it had eggs in it. I did, but I kept my mouth shut and ate it anyway, mostly out of gratitude.

Yet I read every single label at the supermarket. If something contains even traces of milk, I won't buy it. I've asked millions of questions at restaurants about the content of foods at the expense of so many poor waitresses and the friends with me. I even held up a long line at a a fast-food type place so a short-order chef could get the container of bean mix to let me read the ingredients and see if it contained lard. I've gotten in heated arguments about why humans were never meant to drink milk past infancy and how for gods' sake, the lives of fish matter, too.

Yet my multi's have an animal product in them, and I allow it for my health. Am I a vegan?

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