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Meaning of unvegan | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Not vegan.

Examples

“Lactic acid: a byproduct of both animal and plant metabolism, so it’s not always unvegan; found in some fermented foods and body care products.”
“Since “steak knife” sounds really “unvegan” we'll call it the “seitan knife” for now.”
“I first made this recipe in the very unvegan Flagstaff, Arizona, for a dinner party attended by 80 percent omnivores. […] Inspired by an original most unvegan recipe by Emeril Lagasse and Jessie Tirsch.”
“Even the tiniest bit of chometz would render the water unusable. (That’s similar to how using the tiniest bit of animal product would render a person completely un[-]vegan in some people’s eyes.)”
“Although the chips weren’t unvegan, they were unhealthy.”
“As vegan parents, we are also always prepared to replace unvegan passages with vegan phrases in children’s books and songs to reinforce the philosophy and lifestyle we want to instill in them from an early age. […] The fact that an omnivore could enjoy a fully vegan meal, for some reason, inspires them to mention it would be better with meat. They want to be as unvegan as possible when this argument is used.”
“She hoped her dad wouldn’t insist on them dining together tonight, because she wanted to drown her sorrows in a big, very unhealthy, very unvegan chocolate milkshake.”
“However, if you are a strict vegan or baking for a strict vegan, the traditional processing of cane sugar uses char from animal bones to break down and bleach the granules, which makes the sugar “unvegan.””
“Many of the classics are steeped in so much cultural history and tradition about meat, milk, and eggs, and most authors naturally carry these unvegan messages into their own recent works.”
“The vegan teetotaller Greg Chappell has fulfilled two-thirds of a promise to his very unvegan and unteetotal old team-mate Doug Walters. Chappell had said he would eat a steak, drink beer and smoke a cigarette if Walters managed to live until his sixtieth birthday – and he reached the milestone in 2005.”
“Thus, we must be wary of being too quick to judge vegan businesses for engaging in putatively or allegedly “unvegan” activities and instead recognize the complexities of striving to pursue the most ethical options in a complex and constrained political-economic context.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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