| Some vegetarians--usually strict vegans--will not | | | | as you are willing to find out what the source of the |
| consume sugar. This is because sugar is often | | | | sugar is. |
| whitened with bone char from cows. | | | | You can do this in a lot of cases by looking at the |
| If you are a vegetarian and you want to continue | | | | nutritional panel on food before you buy it. If it says |
| eating products that contain sugar, but do not want | | | | fructose or dextrose, the sugar is from a plant |
| to cause suffering in the process, you have a | | | | source (either beet or corn). If it says sucrose, it |
| number of options. | | | | could be from a number of sources, which could |
| Your first option is to only consume products made | | | | include bone char-whitened cane sugar. |
| with beet sugar. There are two major sources of | | | | Now, if you are cooking with sugar, you can |
| sugar in the United States: beet sugar and cane | | | | personally verify that is bone-char free by purchasing |
| sugar. Cane sugar is often whitened with bone char | | | | from the following companies, which have |
| from cows; in contrast, beet sugar is never whitened | | | | publicly-stated that they do not use bone-char: Florida |
| with bone char. | | | | Crystals Refinery, Imperial Sugar Company, Irish |
| So, if you want to completely avoid the bone char, | | | | Sugar Ltd., Sugar In the Raw (which is also |
| you can do so by eating only beet sugar. The only | | | | less-refined), and American Crystal Sugar Company. |
| challenge--and it is a big one--is finding out which | | | | If you can't find these brands, but want to avoid |
| foods contain beet sugar and which foods contain | | | | consuming bone-char sugar if possible, you can avoid |
| cane sugar. | | | | these brands, which have publicly-stated that they do |
| To make things more complex, you can also | | | | use bone-char: Domino, Savannah Foods, and |
| consume a number of types of cane sugar, as long | | | | C&H Sugar Company. |