And the cheese is made from dairy. Mayo is made with eggs. Pattie contains both dairy and egg products as well as rennet. Only the bread and ketchup is vegan.
Not everyone around here is vegan. I agree with the statement about buying the vegan or vegetarian options at take away joints. It sends out a message that there are people out here who buy this stuff, and it aims the message straight at the place which these companies treasure so much - their bank accounts.
Unfortunately this world is not built on a set of categorical ethics, so sometimes it's more productive to swallow your pride and take a more utilitarian approach. We could also respect others' perspectives - not everyone lives in a major city, and therefore convenient take away food choices could be somewhat limited. It's a doddle finding vegan take away in Melbourne, but in a small town with a post office, pub, general store and a fish'n'chip shop, you're boned.
EDIT: While I'm here, I might add that no matter what you do or where you go, you are inadvertently harming an animal somewhere. It can't be avoided these days. It's been said before plenty of times so I won't elaborate. Wanna be 100% certified cruelty-free? Move out to the bush, grow everything yourself organically, weave your own fabrics from your own organic cotton, and don't even think about using anything other than your legs for transport.
THANK YOU GLEN! Although it doesn't answer my question, I am glad someone on this forum responded in a more "mature" manner.
I didn't say anything about buying the food. I thought it was interesting that they made the menu change and that maybe, just maybe, this was a small victory for veggos but as far as I can tell anyway, the recipe is still the same so I guess they removed it for fear of backlash.
Also, people have different ideas about veganism/vegetarianism so before anyone else goes making comments like "why do you eat that s***" or whatever, you might want to think about what glen said above because if you REALLY want to get technical/over the top about it, if you have eaten at ANY fast food place (inc subway), shopped at a supermarket, been sick in hospital, driven/ridden public transport, ridded pests like fleas or bugs in any manner (chemical or natural) ect ect ect You are not vegan
LOL - Yeh it was late and I saw the words Hungry Jacks - bad combination.
If it didn't have animal rennet in it, by vegans, vegetarians and all alike buying it, it will become more popular thus Hungry Jacks and perhaps other shops will create more vegan options. Meat-eaters might also buy it instead of meat in hopes of losing weight or being healthy. Reducing animal cruelty even more. Then they might try making tastier veggie options enticing in meat-eaters. It's all about market demand.
Also if you have to eat a hungry jacks for some reason it would be good to have a filling option rather then eating the crappy 'healthy salad.'
I feel so embarrassed. In my almost two years of vegetarianism it never occurred to me that this burger would contain animal products other than the cheese (I wasn't vegan at the time).
It never occurred to me that they would use animal rennet and now I feel sick for having eaten it. You guys are of course right that there's probably a whole bunch of other stuff in it from the fryer anyway.
I wonder how many other people have this burger because they simply don't know any better. Now that I think back, It's clever how they never actually claimed it was vegetarian (just implied it).
Having a fast food option for vegetarians is great.
Do you want vegetarians kids to look like freaks when their mates eat at maccas and they just sit there "no food for me, I'm a kill joy vege"
As for animal product in cheese, I dont understand ..
the dairy causes most of the cruelty, the rennet causes practically none.
How could you be so hung up over something so tiny while supporting the slaughter of calf and the slavery of cattle?
It's like someone ordering a chicken salad without the salad sauce because it may contain animal ingredients.
I fully support vegetarians, but ultra strict vegetarian doesnt make sense.
Having a fast food option for vegetarians is great.
Do you want vegetarians kids to look like freaks when their mates eat at maccas and they just sit there "no food for me, I'm a kill joy vege"
As for animal product in cheese, I dont understand ..
the dairy causes most of the cruelty, the rennet causes practically none.
How could you be so hung up over something so tiny while supporting the slaughter of calf and the slavery of cattle?
It's like someone ordering a chicken salad without the salad sauce because it may contain animal ingredients.
I fully support vegetarians, but ultra strict vegetarian doesnt make sense.
Back then I didn't understand the damage the Dairy industry was doing, Call it ignorance. Now I am aware, I don't eat dairy.
When hungry jacks changed its menu design, it mentioned underneath the veggie burger that it contained calf rennet, now suddenly it disappeared...
Does this mean that they actually changed the recipe of the veggie burger or does this simply mean that this was effecting their veggie burger sales so they removed it? I can't get a straight answer out of the internetz so far
I went there a month ago and the manager said there was still rennet in the veggie burger
i hate to state what i thought would be obvious to most people ..ur vegie burger would of been cooked on the same hot plate as the beef burger so u would be in fact eating a vegie burger covered in meat juices...lets just stay away from the fast food joints people they are the worst kind of criminals going they teach our children made eating habits and fill them up with sugar....go and buy a burger then put it somewere and let in sit...in a months time grab it and see if it is still soft..i bet it is cause of the suger content in there rolls....ban the fast food places...dont make them richer
If it didn't have animal rennet in it, by vegans, vegetarians and all alike buying it, it will become more popular thus Hungry Jacks and perhaps other shops will create more vegan options. Meat-eaters might also buy it instead of meat in hopes of losing weight or being healthy. Reducing animal cruelty even more. Then they might try making tastier veggie options enticing in meat-eaters. It's all about market demand.
Also if you have to eat a hungry jacks for some reason it would be good to have a filling option rather then eating the crappy 'healthy salad.'
HJ's cook VEGE burgers in the same oil they fry chicken in.
So your eating animal content whether you like it or not. If you want to stay clear of anything related to animal in your diet then dont eat out at fast food giants.
how do you know that
I use to work there, I put veggie burgers in oil shared with chicken patties.
They aren't going to have a seperate fryer for the select few that would get a veggie patty. $$
How do you know the bread and ketchup is Vegan, did you read it somewhere?
LOL the point of this thread may be more allusive than it seems.
Also.... Dinosaurs were cruelly compacted under ground for thousands of years....
QUICK GET OF THE COMPUTER YOU HEATHENS. DON"T... just Don't touch anything made out of plastic... and you should be fine.
But yeah is Hungry Jacks still around, they must be desperate if they are blatantly removing ingredients from publicity. Like they want to be shut down so they can declare bankruptcy isn't their fault for running an unethical business practice. But they will get a burger puppet to state that it was teh burgers fault for not disclosing it engroidien.....
mean i'm going to bed. *wrubs eyes. fawkin hungry bawstawd corp
Funny you don't see any foreign companies wanting to Pioneer an organic enterprise, even if it is entirely plausible and viable to do so.
Because I mean... then they'd be giving something to another country, instead of just polluting the population and taking their asset tokens, before they can be changed for legal goods. Kind of like a drug dealer to the working man, thus is wanting to be ignored by the working man, who works the great book of precedences. szzz
pst: If rennet is taken off the list of ingredients because someone doesn't want to eat it as of this reason, but not out of the ingredients.
What else is in there...? Like... that they'd rather not disclose for other reasons ~ S~!
Hard to trust something or someone that is Not trustworthy or transparent.
