That bowl of fresh tortilla chips sure looks good.
But were they fried in vegan oil?
Tortilla chips are just one of many foods that can contain a covert non-vegan ingredient: lard.
Now separate from the meat, lard takes on a life of its own.
Along with other non-vegan culprits likegelatin, lard appears in various foods ranging from french fries to wedding cakes.
Lard can even appear in standard formulations of soap, according toAllure.
That’s because pigs are intelligent.
Research indicates that pigs have personalities, they experience emotions, and they have some level of self-awareness.
The urban myth that pigs are more smarter than dogs?
In coastal areas, manure run-off can destroy local seafood economies and even wreak respiratory havoc on humans.
TheUnited Nationspredicts a global population of nearly 10 billion people by the middle of the century.
In light of that, feeding pigs food that could be fed directly to humans doesn’t make sense.
