Living Cruelty Free

My name is Emily. This blog chronicles my spending a year (and counting!) of buying 100% cruelty-free cosmetic/household products (I have a list there in the sidebar — it’s called “cruelty-free companies” — go look!) I also write about boycotting inhumane factory farming (buy humanely-raised animal products!), my life in the San Francisco bay area, and my dog, who I cook food for.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Vegan Alcohol

I received a comment a few days ago relating to vegan alcohol.  If you ever wonder whether the alcohol you like to drink is vegan or not — check out Barnivore.com.  It looks like a great resource!  I was very, VERY, glad to see that Bacardi is vegan.  Phew!  (Whether you’re a vegetarian/vegan or not, I hope you’d be opposed to alcohols that use gelatin/bones to filter them — first of all, that’s kind of gross, and second, I can only assume said animal products were not taken from free-range animals.  And if you’re concerned about causing needless animal suffering, you should definitely be concerned about farm animal conditions.)  (Except, perhaps, for some European alcohols — in some European countries free-ranging is mandated by law, so it wouldn’t be as much of a concern there . . .)

posted by Emily at 5:30 pm  

2 Comments »

  1. Thanks for providing this information — I had no idea that some of my favourite liquors may contain animal products :(

    Well, I don’t drink that much, but still, it is a concern.

    Comment by Wendy Koenigsmann — September 23, 2008 @ 8:47 am

  2. Your welcome! I had no idea either.

    Comment by Emily — October 21, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

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