German meat processing company Rügenwalder Mühle has been in business since 1834. They are now offering vegan options of some of their meat products. Conservative estimates are that over 35% of their sales will come from meatless products this year alone!
Of their “Vegan Ham Sausage with Grilled Vegetables” they say:
“Our Ham Sausage is also available as a vegan, i.e. purely plant-based, product. The addition of delicious grilled vegetables – peppers and courgettes – gives it a very special flavour. Give it a try!
Instead of meat, we use peas for our Vegan Ham Sausage. And instead of bacon, we use high-quality rapeseed oil that is bursting with healthy Omega-3 fatty acids.”
The purpose in bringing up such changes is two-fold:
- This dismisses the tired excuses people have that they love the taste of meat, eggs, or dairy. There are plenty of plant-based versions of their favorite animal products.
- Even companies that have no ethical concerns about using animals for their flesh are seeing the demand for ethical options increase.
Sometimes it may seem like little progress is being made, but the reality is that each day there are more vegans and more companies decreasing their animal product offerings.
6 Comments
Jody
March 4, 2019 at 9:16 amI’m glad these companies are realizing the need as I do think they are a Quint essential for people to transition to a cruelty free diet. Personally in less than 2 weeks of eating meat I could not stand the taste and I don’t need meat tasting products. But I am glad they exist.
Ryan Hicks
March 4, 2019 at 11:52 amI still hear the excuse regularly about how “bad vegan food tastes.” These options completely upend that excuse and might push some to go vegan, since many are ruled by their taste buds and not the ethics of compassion towards all sentient beings.
June
July 7, 2021 at 3:12 amI buy their vegan products on a regular basis. The family business is run by two brothers. In an interview they said that they wanted to gradually switch to vegan. But that would only work gradually so as not to endanger jobs.
Ryan Hicks
July 7, 2021 at 8:57 amThat is really unfortunate. Too many people claim to be vegan while having no problem hurting animals. Any job partaking of the evil of harming animals is not worth saving, and there is always an opportunity to create a job that is harmless.
Judith Godwin
September 4, 2021 at 4:32 pmJeremiah 7:21,22.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; the God of Israel; “Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices and eat flesh.
For I spake NOT unto your fathers, NOR COMMANDED THEM, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.
Isaiah 1:11. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord, “I am of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight NOT in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
God’s word is hidden among lies in the Bible. One must “search the scriptures” to find the True God.
Jeremiah 8:8
How do you say we are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?, Lo certainly in vain made He it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
Look up the word “vain” in Strongs Concordance in the above verse. In this particular verse, the Hebrew word is actually “false, untruth, deceit, lie, lying.
God’s word is hidden among mans lies.
Jesus came to stop the bloody sacrifices and according to ancient scriptures (not in our Bibles today), Jesus was succeeding in teaching the truth. Remember Jesus told them the Temple would be destroyed and not one stone would be found upon another. He was telling them that this would stop their bloody sacrifices. Note that the leaders of the Temple did not stop
sacrifices when Jesus’s was killed. They stopped in 70 AD because the Temple was destroyed, as it was forbidden to sacrifice outside the Temple. Bloody sacrifices was the precept to convince people it’s ok kill and eat the bodies of animals.
In Genesis 8:21 It written …“the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth…
This is said just after Noah sacrifices the clean animals.
People say God allowed eating flesh because there was nothing green to eat after the flood, yet the dove returned to the Ark with an OLIVE LEAF, thus, there must have been a green olive tree growing.
When the people that Moses led through the wildernesses demanded flesh to eat, God gave them quails to eat. But note that ALL THOSE that ate bodies of those little quails, DIED.
I believe the writings of Moses leading the children to the land of milk and honey is for the edification to the writings of Jesus leading us back to God.
Search the scriptures and pray for wisdom and understanding. There are lies among truth. Seek God with a meek and humble heart and ask to see “the Truth” in the scriptures. Research the scriptures that the Church omitted from the Bible and other ancient writings as well.
I gave up eating animals after seeing the cruelty of slaughter houses on social media.
Only after I gave up eating animals, (including all sea life), and milk (which is stolen from baby cows), did I begin to find a multitude of scripture that talks of how God hated bloody sacrifices and never commanded it.
Amazing how many Hebrew and Greek words are mistranslated when it comes to the killing and eating animals.
Meat in the Bible should have been translated Bread or Food.
Look up “Offerings” and then “Burnt Offerings” in your Bible Concordance. I use the Strongs.
Offerings are good. “Burnt” Offerings in HEBREW, according to translation would be to say, EVIL OFFERINGS. It translates Burnt offerings as a evil, Holocaust!
One should have a Bible Concordance to check the actual Hebrew or Greek translation.
I use the Strongs Exhaustive Concordance.
You will be amazed at how many times the translation appears deceptively inaccurate.
Such as food or bread being translated almost always as MEAT when it is definitely not FLESH MEAT.
Ryan Hicks
September 6, 2021 at 12:40 pmYou would likely enjoy my book “Why Every Christian Should Be A Vegan.” In it, for example, I list every time the word “Meat” occurs in the New Testament, and show the original Greek word behind it and how it means “food.” Of course, “meat” was a fine translation hundreds of years ago, because it meant food and not animal flesh. An example of this usage of the word “meat” is found in the very beginning of the Scripture:
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. (Genesis 1:29)