{"id":753531,"date":"2018-06-10T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T12:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753531"},"modified":"2018-06-10T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T12:04:17","slug":"traces-of-meat-are-found-in-sainsbury-and-tesco-supermarkets-vegan-ready-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753531","title":{"rendered":"Traces of meat are found in Sainsbury and Tesco supermarkets&#8217; vegan ready meals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The number of vegans in the UK has tripled in the past ten years, with more than half a million people now eschewing all animal products: meat, fish, eggs, dairy and honey.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TARIQ TAHIR:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The Food Standards Agency has launched an investigation after traces of meat were found in vegetarian and vegan meals sold by two leading supermarkets&#8230; Samples were sent to a German government accredited lab laboratory after organisations in the U.K refused to carry out the tests owing to their sensitive nature&#8230; Laboratory tests showed traces of pork DNA in Sainsbury&#8217;s own brand 380g Meat Free Meatballs which the supermarket says is suitable for vegans and which cost \u00a31.50. The test results also found traces of turkey DNA in Tesco&#8217;s Wicked Kitchen 385g BBQ Butternut Mac, which again is labelled as being vegan and sells for \u00a34&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A spokesman for animal rights group Peta, which promotes veganism and previously endorsed Tesco&#8217;s Wicked Kitchen range, said: &#8216;These findings will come as a massive shock to many \u2013 including, we suspect, those producing the food&#8230; &#8220;As the demand for vegan meats skyrockets, we urge manufacturers to improve their line cleaning practices&#8221;&#8230; The number of vegans in the UK has tripled in the past ten years, with more than half a million people now eschewing all animal products \u2014 meat, fish, eggs, dairy and honey&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5823195\/Food-Standards-Agency-investigation-meat-Sainsburys-Tesco-vegan-ready-meals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OauIglu2ayo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TARIQ TAHIR: &#8216;The Food Standards Agency has launched an investigation after traces of meat were found in vegetarian and vegan meals sold by two leading supermarkets&#8230; Samples were sent to a German government accredited lab laboratory after organisations in the U.K refused to carry out the tests owing to their sensitive nature&#8230; Laboratory tests showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,19],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-753531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-health","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753533,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753531\/revisions\/753533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}