Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels

Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by bigmattystyles on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:41PM (#37374325)

I also like when something is labeled gluten-free, but it’s something that’s normally gluten-free. Instead of enticing me to it, it puts me off. Glutens are delicious.

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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by bigbillheck on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:54PM (#37374469)

> Glutens are delicious

That's what your taste buds say but if your immune system ever decides to weigh in on this you might find yourself rethinking the matter.

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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by ben_w on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:09PM (#37374616)

If gluten tasted like cowpats smell, nobody would ever find out if they were gluten intolerant.

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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by Swizec on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:59PM (#37374528)

“this bottle of water is gluten free, vegan friendly, vegetarian, keto friendly, paleo friendly, lactose free, and has zero calories”

Yeah no shit … reminds me of ye olde xkcd about asbestos-free cereal: https://xkcd.com/641/

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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by spondylosaurus on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:10PM (#37374629)

This can legit get pretty silly, but having heard celiac friends' horror stories about getting gluten'd from unexpected sources I'm definitely inclined to understand the "better safe than sorry" approach here. An explicit gluten-free option is always going to be the better choice for anyone in that camp, especially when the consequences of picking wrong can be pretty damn unpleasant.

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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by dghughes on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:20PM (#37374739)

I just commented above similar story. But it's not better safe than sorry. As a friend of mine said it's become a joke everything is "gluten free" but it's not known if it actually is.

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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by PaulHoule on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:13PM (#37374652)

Awful gluten free baked goods are ubiquitous.

It just seems instead of eating baked goods that taste like sandpaper people should be eating rice or quinoa or corn or teff or millet. Some people just can't seem to get past sandwiches and pastries but if you get past that there is a lot of great stuff to eat that is naturally gluten free... But no, they have to have a gluten free BLT or a gluten free donut.

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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by dghughes on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:18PM (#37374718)

Yeah it's frustrating to see gluten free pushed as healthy to people who don't have celiac disease. It's about 1% of the US population or 3.3 million out of 339 million. Epilepsy affects about 1.1% of the population for comparison.

Anecdotally I knew two people with the disease and can see it's frustrating to live with. One person told me how pepper the cheap stuff in restaurants or grocery stores has wheat dust in it to help it flow. A co-worker told me of the frustration his sister had in restaurants with trendy "oh it's gluten free" but it wasn't so off to the hospital she went. He said she was more mad at how everything is labelled as gluten free now but there's no way to really know since it's mainly just a cash grab.

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Re:Negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels by dagw on Monday September 04, 2023 @07:56AM (#37379632)

gluten free pushed as healthy to people who don't have celiac disease.

Studies are finding that gluten tolerance isn't binary. There are many people who don't have celiac and can in principle eat gluten safely, but still find digesting gluten an uncomfortable experience due to how it reacts with their gut.

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