I was checking out your website, and I think it would be a good idea to mention that all kosher wine is 100% vegan. Due to strict Jewish laws, all wine must be made without any animal by-products whatsoever, no meat, fish, dairy or eggs, so kosher wine is always a great choice for vegans!
> I was checking out your website, and I think it would be a good idea to > mention that all kosher wine is 100% vegan. Due to strict Jewish laws, > all wine must be made without any animal by-products whatsoever, no > meat, fish, dairy or eggs, so kosher wine is always a great choice for > vegans!
I would love if this were true and I have some kosher wines on my list (http://vegans.frommars.org/wine/?query=israel), but I've seen contradictory information in this. For example this article claims that egg whites may be permissible by some kosher winemakers:
I inquired with a Jewish colleague at work and kosher is not necessarily 100% vegan. They can guarantee there is no dairy but it may contain egg and be considered kosher, but that's not vegan. I deleted those emails before I completely understood the issue, but I would not say that kosher wine is all vegan however vegan wine IS kosher. :)
des <d...@frommars.org> wrote: On 11/30/05, cowsrcool wrote: > I was checking out your website, and I think it would be a good idea to > mention that all kosher wine is 100% vegan. Due to strict Jewish laws, > all wine must be made without any animal by-products whatsoever, no > meat, fish, dairy or eggs, so kosher wine is always a great choice for > vegans!
I would love if this were true and I have some kosher wines on my list (http://vegans.frommars.org/wine/?query=israel), but I've seen contradictory information in this. For example this article claims that egg whites may be permissible by some kosher winemakers:
I have to agree that to my knowledge, kosher does not necessarily mean that something does not contain what we might consider meat. I am not convinced that Jewish law is as strict as many (most?) vegans/vegetarians are.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- I have read multiple times that kosher does NOT signify vegetarian or vegan. And ingredients listed neither, just because Belgian law only permits a few ingredients does not mean that isinglass was not used, because they do not have to report that a filtering agent is an ingredient. There are many kosher & organic wines, unfortunately few of them are vegan. Maybe we need to have a calling, letter-writing campaign to inform these places that if they made some changes they would attract a wider customer base. 20 years ago I could not imagine that there would be labeling of a "V" for vegan items and this has now happened-so it could be, with a little activism that we could influence the wine labelling as well. Even at Wild Oats the vegan wines are not labelled-they have color coding for everything else from kosher to organic to sulfite free, but under kosher & organic it also says, may or may not be vegan, well for strict vegans this does not really help. I have been drinking Frey wines for the past several years, as I know that everything they have is vegan. Heather
>I have to agree that to my knowledge, kosher does not necessarily mean >that something does not contain what we might consider meat. I am not >convinced that Jewish law is as strict as many (most?) >vegans/vegetarians are.
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