Vegan's Beware List

I have this as a word doc for anyone who wants it that way. Four columns and one page.


Adrenaline
Alanine
Albumen / Albumin
Alcloxa
Aldioxa
Aliphatic Alcohol
Allantoin
Alpha-Hydroxy Acids
Ambergris
Amino Acids
Aminosuccinate Acid
Animal Fats and Oils
Arachidonic Acid
Arachidyl Proprionate
Aspartic Acid / Aminosuccinate Acid

Bee Pollen
Bee Products
Beeswax / Honeycomb
Benzoic Acid
Beta Carotene
Biotin / Vitamin H
Vitamin B Factor
Bone Char
Bone Meal

Calciferol
Calfskin
Caprylamine Oxide
Capryl Betaine
Caprylic Acid
Caprylic Triglyceride
Carbamide
Carmine / Cochineal / Carminic Acid
Carotene / Provitamin A
Beta Carotene
Casein / Caseinate /
Sodium Caseinate
Cashmere
Castor / Castoreum
Catgut
Cera Flava
Cerebrosides
Cetyl Alcohol
Cetyl Palmitate
Chitosan
Cholesterin
Cholesterol
Choline Bitartrate
Civet
Cochineal
Collagen
Colors / Dyes
Corticosteroid
Cysteine, L-Form

Dexpanthenol
Diglycerides
Dimethyl Stearamine
Down
Duodenum Substances

Egg Protein
Elastin
Emu Oil
Ergocalciferol
Ergosterol
Estrogen / Estradiol

Fats
Fatty Acids
FD&C Colors
Fish Liver Oil
Fish Oil
Fish Scales
Fur

Gelatin / Gel
Glucose Tyrosinase
Glycerides
Glycerin / Glycerol
Glyceryls
Glycreth-26
Guanine

Hide Glue
Hyaluronic Acid
Hydrocortisone
Hydrolyzed Animal
Protein

Imidazolidinyl Urea
Insulin
Isinglass
Isopropyl Lanolate
Isopropyl Myristate
Isopropyl Palmitate

Keratin

Lactic Acid
Laneth
Lanogene
Lanolin / Lanolin Acids
Lanolin Alcohol
Lanosterols
Lard
Lecithin / Choline
Bitartrate
Linoleic Acid
Lipase
Lipoid / Lipids

Marine Oil
Methionine
Milk Protein
Mink Oil
Monoglycerides /
Glycerides
Musk (Oil)
Myristal Ether Sulfate / Myristic Acid / Myristyls
"Natural Sources”
Nucleic Acids

Ocenol
Octyl Dodecanol
Oleic Acid
Oleths
Oleyl Alcohol / Ocenol
Oleyl Arachidate
Oleyl Imidazoline
Oleyl Myristate
Oleyl Oleate
Oleyl Stearate

Palmitamide
Palmitamine
Palmitate
Palmitic Acid
Panthenol
Dexpanthenol
Provitamin B-5
Panthenyl
Pepsin
Placenta
Placenta Polypeptides
Protein / Afterbirth
Pearl Essence

Polyglycerol
Polypeptides
Polysorbates
Pristane
Progesterone
Propolis
Provitamin A
Provitamin B-5
Provitamin D-2

Rennet / Rennin
Resinous Glaze
Ribonucleic Acid
RNA / Ribonucleic Acid
Royal Jelly

Sable Brushes
Sea Turtle Oil
Shark Liver Oil
Shellac / Resinous
Glaze
Silk / Silk Powder
Skins
Snails
Sodium Caseinate
Sodium Steroyl
Lactylate
Sodium Tallowate
Spermaceti / Cetyl
Palmitate / Sperm Oil
Sponge (Luna and Sea)
Squalane
Stearamide Stearamine
(Oxide)
Stearates
Stearic Acid
Stearic Hydrazide
Stearone
Stearoxytrimethylsilane
Stearoyl Lactylic Acid
Stearyl Acetate
Stearyl Alcohol / Sterols
Stearyl Betaine
Stearyl Caprylate
Stearyl Citrate
Stearyldimethyl Amine
Stearyl Glycyrrhetinate
Stearyl Heptanoate
Stearyl Imidazoline
Stearyl Octanoate
Stearyl Stearate
Steroids / Sterols

Tallow / Tallow Fatty
Alcohol / Stearic Acid
Tallow Acid
Tallow Amide
Tallow Amine
Talloweth-6
Tallow Glycerides
Tallow Imidazoline
Triterpene Alcohols
Turtle (sea) Oil
Tyrosine

Urea / Uric Acid

Vitamin A
Vitamin B-Complex
Factor
Vitamin B Factor
Vitamin B-12
Vitamin D / Ergocalciferol / Vitamin
D-2 / Ergosterol. Vitamin D-3
Vitamin H
Wax
Whey

Pain in my Ass

Hey guys.

So for the last hour I've been distilling down the PETA (not to mention everyone else's) Vegan No No List. The one I used is here (But they are pretty much the same across the board):

http://www.caringconsumer.com/resources_ingredients_list.asp

The idea is that I wanted a list to keep in my bag for when I shop. I didn't really want the descriptions as well as the ingredient /additive. I want that at home but when I'm shopping I just want to know not to buy it. There are some obvious things that I deleted from the list. I don't think I need to have listed all the different types of Skin (in fact it's kinda a no brainer anyway) Lactose, Hair etc. Some things you really should be able to just figure out you know.

The list is done and I'm gonna print it off for my bag and hope to put it on my HTC once the screen is repaired (another story). But thought you guys in the same shoes as I am might like to have the list, and those who are just curious about what means animal. All the things on this list potentially come from Animal. There are plant derivatives for many things so you need to check where your source is coming from. The following post will just be the list.

I'm feeling a bit fanatical about all this at this moment, which is not how I want to be (about anything) so I need to step back from the list, and being Vegan. Not away, just back and take a breath. It is so easy to get angry. Did you know white sugar comes in contact with animal product. It's what makes it white. I mean some of this stuff on the list is clearly animal product, but others. Shit I had no idea. Part, no most really, of my irritation is just in how little I know about what I am eating / using.

Then on top of that, today the 'sermon' at church was a letter from Mardi Tindal, the United Church Moderator. She went to Copenhagen for the Climate Change Conference. Basically her take (and that of many others) is that is was a big waste and that nothing was accomplished. Rather than despair she suggests it is now on us as individuals to step up where government can not seem to. Needless to say I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. If you are interested in reading her letter:

http://www.united-church.ca/communications/news/moderator/100117

Remember we only have one Earth - it is ours to maintain. The damage that has been done is on our shoulders. Time to pick our slack asses up off the couch and begin to care. We are the ultimate losers if we don't.

Much love and sadness
Be

Something I am trying.

Hello Sports Fans.
. . . and hello to you none sports fans too.

In fact what I really want is to know about you foodies out there.

I was wondering if any of you were interested in me posting recipes? I am working through several Vegan cookbooks and making up a few things of my own. The process is potentially very tasty. I'm thinking of sharing the really successful ones. Mediocrity need not apply here. At least not when it comes to food. I know I'll produce lots of okay stuff, but the really good food, truly tasty and truly good for you, I'd like to share.

Interested.

I am also adding a few side blogs to work as book review / catalog and movies too maybe. I'm no critic believe me, but I like to keep track.

Be

How I got here

Hey guys,

I know it's been awhile. You been waiting with baited breath I bet. *chuckle* I've been avoiding you. Sorry. Avoiding me really. Not unusual. No real reason except here I tend to feel compelled to face the internal voice and confront the feelings of spinning out of control. I may have mentioned before that a girlfriend of mine thinks I've been in an existential crisis since she has known me (I believe we met in 2000). This is what that means according to Wiki:

An existential crisis is a stage of development at which an individual questions the very foundations of their life: whether their life has any meaning, purpose or value; whether their parents, teachers, and loved ones truly act in their best interest; whether the values they have been taught have any merit; and whether their religious upbringing may or may not be founded in reality.

Until I read this definition I tended to agree with her. Now, I'm sure this isn't accurate. I believe my life has meaning, if not, I believe it would be over. The people who truly truly love(d) me always felt they had my best interest at heart, and those who didn't, didn't / don't love me. My parents did their very best by me and whether I would do the same in the same situation is irrelevant. I believe they are / were perfect parents for me and as close as I could ever hope to be as a parent. As screwed up as I may be . . . it could be soooooo much worse. Teachers, are teachers I think in High School you kind of feel like if they weren't against you they were for you and mine were for me. I believe that what I have been taught is truth. That is because what I have really been taught is to question. Faith, people, teachers, God, my partner, my children. Everything else is variable.

I think, instead, that I may just have been struggling to put my life thus far in it's perspective. It never ceases to piss me off when some damned thing you figure you have finally dealt with rears it's ugly head again in a new and horrifying manner. You feel thrown backwards and wonder for a devastating moment if you've got to start all over again before finding yourself reeling forward again. My dear friend just happens to be called to my doorstep mid hurdle almost every time and so I can see why she feels this is true of me.

Perhaps my crisis isn't actually a crisis, but a search. I guess feeling like there was more to me than what I have been putting out there. Not in crisis over what has been (well okay sometimes) but an irritation that what I thought would have been accomplished at this point hasn't been or perhaps I'm not who I thought I would be at 36. Of course there is also the never ending fear that I will never live up to my (self defined) potential. Sadly, that last bit is way more tied in with my weight than anything this profound and important should be.

So. I am not unhappy with how I got here. I would not be who I am (and generally I like me) without the path that I have trodden. It is how I got here and why I am me. And now I am just so freakin' excited about my future. I am feeling like these decisions I am making, these changes I am making, they are about to rock me to my foundation. They are going to lift me above myself, get me out of my way and give the clarity I have been feeling I lack.

I pray with all that I have that my journey to ministry is a journey of growth for everyone it touches. That the fear and insecurity that my changing might create, fall away and all that is left is knowing that this is what is right for me. How can something that is so right for me not also bring wonderful things to those who mean the world to me.

I love you
I truly do
Nobody knows me like you.

You hold my hand
Keep me sane
When I forget even my name.

I want you
Always near
My heart is yours, no fear.

Love
Be

day 1 and 3

Hello,

Today is day 3 of my 365 days of Vegetarianism, and my first day of Vegan. I guess I need to come up with a tracking system or I'll lose count of the Vegan days.

Today began (incredibly) at 10am. I think something is genetically wrong with my kids. 10am. Whose kids get up then? I made Vegan pancakes. You don't really think of pancakes in this way, but they have eggs and milk in them witch is definitely animal. They were okay, but the consistency is different, I think it's the egg missing. Still they were yummy. I think the key to being successful as a Vegan / Veggie convert is not to expect things to taste the same.

At lunch time I discovered that my fave Campbell's soups are off the vegan list. The Vegetable being made with beef broth (dumb) and Mushroom being made with milk *sigh*. Anyone have good alternatives?


Ploenta Pie for supper. Not bad.

Boring I know, but so very drained today.

Night
Be

Here I go . . . Again.

So I am reading.

Not such a big deal. The Kind Diet. Another in my growing collections of reasons to care about what I eat. I want to care, but it is much easier not to. This is taking a toll on my mind though. I am at the point where I either stop reading these books and forget I ever did, or I step up and do something about it. It isn't just my mind either, it's my body. I have become that person. I don't recognize myself in pictures. Great fat lump. So here I go again.

365 days of Vegetarianism, with 183 days of those being Vegan. Sugar is also on the chopping block . . . again.

I have also resolved to:

1~ Take my lunch to work.
2~ Finish decluttering my life.
3~ Do my taxes by the end of April (Mine aren't due till June really)
4~ Sing more
5~ Not use my computer to escape but rather as a tool to connect.
6~ See less of the ass end of midnight and more of the face of morning.
7~ Finish redecorating the inside of my house
8~ Post something to my blog at least once a week.
9~ Get over myself and move on (ie: get over my 9 + year existential crisis)

That's enough.


Happy New Years my friends. I hope that it is a peaceful, inspiring year.

Love Be

Comments of the final draft?

Here it is. I am willing to tweek, but this is basically it.
I want to give it to council on Sunday.
Beki

PS I promise, more and vaired blog posts to come, I just want to get this in.

Richview Council,

Hello, I would first like to thank you for taking the time to read my letter and application. I am writing to you because I would like to begin the Discernment process as an Inquirer. To that end, please let me introduce myself. My name is Rebekah Duncan. I am 36 years old, I have been married for 7 years and have two young children: Mira 4 1/2 and Liam 1 1/2. I have a Bachelor degree in Theatre from Mount Allison University. I own and operate a small Massage Therapy practice in Etobicoke's Islington Village, established in 2007 and have been an Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) since 2003. I grew up in Nova Scotia although I was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario. I have grown up in the United Church, my Father was ordained when I was 4, and my Mother is very active in her church as well. My family are close to me and very supportive. I have talked to all of them and many of my friends about this process and what it means to me and for me and they are prepared to take this step with me. I have been an active member of Richview since just after my daughter's birth in 2005 and almost immediately felt a sense of belonging there.

The journey to this decision has been long and complicated. I would guess that this is how it is for most who come to this conclusion about their life's purpose. In my early 20's I felt a pull towards the church. At the time I felt that Ministry would be too challenging and so I chose what I thought would be the easier path and became a RMT. I find being an RMT very rewarding and fulfilling (not to mention very challenging). So, while I do not regret the decision I made in 2000, the draw to the church has not left me and my call to be in leadership within the church has only increased in strength. I can no longer ignore the constant urge I have to be a bigger part of the church. I have spent time working with the youth to see if that quieted the voice, but it has proven to only make it louder and put the call into concrete form. I can only attribute that to me coming closer to where I should be.

My experience with the call to ministry has been much like hiking toward a waterfall. I have known longer than even I am aware, that the call was there. As I began to move in the direction of God's purpose for me I began to hear the trickle of the water, faint and far away. With each step I have made along the path the sound of the water has become clearer. There have been times when something has distracted me and I have left the path. Then, the sound of the waterfall has still been present, and those off path experiences always brought me back to the path with a stronger desire to be there. The water is now loud in my ears. The water fall is just up ahead around a bend. I can almost see it. It is time.

Thank you for your time in considering my request. If you have any questions or need further clarification please feel free to contact me.

Yours
Rebekah Duncan