Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 I was interested in read one of the letters in the latest edition of The Vegan about shopping in supermarkets. My vegan friend and I both shop in supermarkets as we feel that if the demand is there, supermarkets will start selling more vegan products which might in turn encourage meaties to try them. I know there are strong views either way. Janey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 I tend to shop in the supermarkets for most of the stuff i need... the city i live in has only like 1 health food store that actually stocks vegan products and is obviously more expensive... the supermarkets try their best and do have a variety of vegetarian/vegan organic products...at least more than they did last year.... tricia , " veganjaney " <janey@p...> wrote: > I was interested in read one of the letters in the latest edition of > The Vegan about shopping in supermarkets. My vegan friend and I > both shop in supermarkets as we feel that if the demand is there, > supermarkets will start selling more vegan products which might in > turn encourage meaties to try them. I know there are strong views > either way. > > Janey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 I shop in the supermarkets around here as they have a good variety of things that I can't even find at the health food store that I have access to. And another thing which I had on my mind that I wanted to post which ties into this is that I know a lot of vegans don't like supporting those non-veg companies that have some veg items because they feel as though they are supporting those products. But in truth when you buy a product that's what you're buying, the money spent on that product really doesn't go into the company as a whole. I like to think of it like this and this ties in with accounting practices too, for instance with the example of White Wave(Silk Soymilk) being owned by Dean's(Big Cow Milk Company). When you buy White Wave you're not supporting cow milk from Dean's. Because let's say that 75% of people were buying Soymilk and the other 25% were buying cowmilk. That doesn't mean that Dean's would be pushing out more cowmilk, because their revenue would be coming from soymilk and they recognize through revenue what they're selling more of so that's what they would do more with. With all of that said I think it's also nice to support some of those smaller companies, especially the one's that are trying to do more veg things than the others. But I don't think that if someone makes a better and the company as a whole may not be veg that that doesn't mean you can't buy a certain product. And certainly with supermarkets they have a good stance to show what people are buying. So if they offer some of those nice veg items go stock up from there if you feel like it, because like in my situation where I can't get all I need from the health food store because it will show so no need to worry. Paul ------ >I was interested in read one of the letters in the latest edition of >The Vegan about shopping in supermarkets. My vegan friend and I >both shop in supermarkets as we feel that if the demand is there, >supermarkets will start selling more vegan products which might in >turn encourage meaties to try them. I know there are strong views >either way. > >Janey > > > > >To send an email to - > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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