Still vegan if you eat similar food like this?

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My friend says she's vegan and likes to bragg about it. We went to cafeteria together and she asked serving lady to give her some red sauce. Lady said that the sauce is made out of meat, but my friend didn't mind it at all. So do vegans eat foods that are made out of meat but don't contain pieces of meat then too?
Note:I'm not vegan, I'm sorry in advanced if any of this is rude, I'm just trying to understand. 😅 Thank you for help.

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No. She’s not vegan then.

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No your friend isn’t vegan

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I don't know if we have to make veganism about perfectionism, but no, eating something made from animal isn't vegan.
However, a lot of red sauce is vegan. I'm really curious about that sauce now. If it had actual meat it would be obvious, and I doubt a vegan would eat it. If it had animal stock in it- well, why would it? That would be abnormal for that type of sauce. 
However, perhaps your friend thought it was vegan BEFORE it was on her plate- and in my opinion, wasting it is ethically just as bad as eating meat in many people's opinions, if not worse.

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The meal itself wasn’t vegan. 
I try not to call my family vegan because of how political the phrase has become. I don’t buy animal foods. No meat or dairy, but I also will allow it when we are out of the house. So I cook vegan. I go months vegan, my kids do not always go that long though since I don’t push it outside the home. 
This is mostly to do with cost. But also with how challenging it can be to feed 6 people vegan while out of the home on a budget.
I go with that famous line used for the formula/breastfeeding debate: fed is best.
Some people are transitioning so sometimes end up with an unvegan meal . Some people are ok with  broth or trace amounts but try to stay away from solid meat form but use the term vegan because it’s easier to explain . 🤷🏻‍♀️ ask your friend and support whatever they tell you for themselves. However, ask anyone else you might want to feed as well because for a lot of people even honey isn’t considered vegan and some wont eat things based on how it was processed so it can be a very individual journey.

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She ain’t vegan then. If she’s vegan and wants meat then she should be trying the vegan/vegetarian meat

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If she always eats vegan and only had that non vegan product the once... then yeah I'd consider her vegan. I'm vegetarian and once in a blue moon will have something that is meat. I always regret eating the meat cause it makes me feel like shit. But just cause I ate a piece of meat once in the last 3 months, doesn't mean I'm not vegetarian. Vegetarian for life! Veganism is NOT healthy. It is severely hard to get all nutrients with vegan diet.

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Not a vegan. Vegans do not eat any foods that contain meat or animal byproducts.

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Lol no ... your friend is not vegan

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she must mean she is vegetarian

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I'm not vegan, I'm vegetarian but if something says meat sauce on the label I won't eat it. Same with soups or bases cooked with chicken stock, it's meat based so it's still a meat product. If the flavor comes from meat, it's a meat product and she is not vegan.

Still vegan if you eat similar food like this?

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