Vegan josie • 4w ago • 94%

Josie's Guide to Vegan Friendly Instruments

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Well, here it is! A few days ago, I made a post appealing for information relating to animal product usage in the music instrument industry. Historically, musical instruments have used animal products. Typically, drumheads were made of animal skin, piano keys of ivory, and violin bows of horsehair. A lot of these processes have been phased out (most drums use Mylar for their skins now, and ivory was banned for pianos in the 80s.) Here are some patterns I've noticed while creating this sheet: 1. Drums and harmonicas are the "most vegan" instruments 2. Acoustic pianos are much more likely to use wool than electric pianos 3. The violin industry is the worst for animal products. Most violin manufacturers still use bows with horsehair. 4. Manufacturers specialising in introductory/student products, such as Sigma and Franz Hoffmann, tend to use animal-derived materials rather than synthetic ones. 5. Actual saxophones are vegan, but a lot of manufacturers use genuine leather straps. All companies that use leather for their straps have been labelled as orange. Trumpets, flugel horns, tubas, and trombones are seemingly okay regardless of manufacturer. Some flutes used to use ivory but again, this practice was banned in 1989. 6. I discovered that clarinets tend to use goat skin for their pads. Unfortunately, I could not find any information on exactly which companies use animal skin for their clarinets. Sorry. Another thing I've noticed is that information relating to this topic is EXTREMELY muddy. I would often find a source claiming that a manufacturer did not use animal products only to double check their information pages and see that they use wool. I would find sources claiming a manufacturer isn't vegan only to check their information pages and see that they seemingly use no animal products. For this reason, I cannot guarantee that the information in the spreadsheet is 100% accurate, but this is the closest to accuracy I have been able to get to. This sheet compiles the top manufacturers in each category of instrument. If anyone has any other manufacturers they'd like me to investigate, please just say so in the comments.

Art josie • 4w ago • 100%

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Vegan josie • 4w ago • 91%

Guide to vegan instruments

Backstory: I am a vegan musician. I recently had a conversation with another user on here after I had mentioned musical instruments and how they have historically used animal products. A lot of manufacturers have now switched to all plant based components but it is very very unclear as to who exactly is vegan friendly or not. I have decided to attempt to create a spreadsheet detailing which instrument manufacturers are vegan-friendly or not. These are the ones I have found answers to: Fender - Seemingly yes Bedell - Yes Martin - Not vegan, uses animal-derived glue Taylor - Yes Moondot - Yes Fishman - Some models are definitely vegan, have not found a definitive answer for their entire range Steinway - Yes Baldwin - Yes Ludwig - Seemingly yes Evans - Yes Remo - Yes Gibson - Not sure, I have found something about them using oysters(what?) in their guitars but this is about 20 years old so not sure if anything has changed Incredibow - Yes Cardiff Violins - Yes Franz Hoffmann - No T Sonada - Yes If anyone has any knowledge of other vegan/non-vegan manufacturers to add to the sheet, preferably with a source, please let me know. If you find that any of the info above is incorrect then again please let me know.

Vegan Home Cooks josie • 2mo ago • 100%

Feijoada with pão de queijo

Exactly what it says in the title pretty much. A feijoada inspired dish with pão de queijo. Feijoada: 2 cups black beans 1/2 cup chopped carrots 1 chopped bell pepper 2 chopped potatoes About 1/2 of a tomato 1 tsp paprika 1 tsp cumin 1/2 tsp coriander 3 cups veg stock I cooked the black beans in a pot then added the bell pepper, carrots, and potatoes, then thr tomato and spices. I let it simmer for about an hour however it didn't thicken that much so I'm assuming I added too much water/stock to the pot, no big deal I'll just use less next time. I served this with brown rice. Pão de queijo: 1 cup tapioca flour 1/4 cup nooch 1/2 tsp saly 1/2 soy milk 1 potato I preheated the oven to 190 then mixed the tapioca flour, nooch, and salt in a bowl. I added the soy milk and stirred until doughy before adding the mashed potato and stirring until combined. You are supposed to roll the dough into balls but I couldn't be bothered so I just scooped it out onto the tray lol, for that reason the presentation is off but it tasted just as good so again it's whatever. I baked for about 25 minutes.

Vegan Home Cooks josie • 2mo ago • 94%

Soybean curry

Looong time lurker, first time posting here. I used ChatGPT for soybean recipes and this is one of the dishes it came up with: 1 cup soybeans 1 inch piece of ginger, grated 2 pureed tomatoes 1 tbsp curry powder 1 tsp turmeric powder 1 teaspoon cumin 1/2 cup coconut milk Recipe also listed onion and garlic as ingredients but garlic causes my GERD to flare up and I don't really like the taste of onions so I left them both out. I pre-cooked the soybeans before preparing the curry paste. I cooked the tomato puree, cumin, ginger, turmeric, and curry powder in a splash of water for about 5 minutes until it thickened and then added the soybeans, stirring them until completely coated. I poured in the coconut milk and let it simmer for about 10 minutes before seasoning and serving it. Not pictured is the brown rice I served it with. Overall a relatively quick, simple and nice tasting dish.