"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 22:43:37 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
> wrote:
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>>
>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>> >
>> > "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >> It has animal products so it is non vegan. Vegans love sugar. The
>> >> ones
>> >> I have known eat it by the ton.
>> >
>> > Most sugar isn't vegan and most vegans won't eat most sugar. But they
>> > now
>> > have palm sugar aka coconut sugar. It is vegan and it seems to be
>> > replacing brown rice syrup as the vegan choice of sweetener. Dates are
>> > also a popular sweetener. I have made raw vegan brownies that were
>> > little
>> > more than dates, nuts and cocoa powder put in a food processor. You'd
>> > be
>> > hard pressed to tell them from baked brownies. Seriously!
>>
>> Whatever. I grew up with 3 asshole vegans - my sisters. Sugar was not
>> off
>> their list. I went to a colllege where granola was used for a douche.
>> They
>> all loved sugar in any form. Every ****ing vegan I have ever known has
>> had
>> a sweet tooth that is almost an addiction.
>>
> I suppose the objection of vegans in Julie's area to has to do with
> the refining process of cane sugar.
> http://www.vegsource.com/jo/qa/qasugar.htm

There must be plenty of other weays to process it. From a mass production
scale it seems pretty inefficient when some cancer causing chemicals would
do the job just as well.