Can truffles (the mushroom truffles) be vegan?
– A subscriber to the Vegan Views discussion list They can be found without using animals, but in Europe, and sometimes in North America as well, pigs and dogs have been used to locate them (and vegan principles would rule out this active training and use of nonhuman animals to seek foods). For information, see http://www.natruffling.org/faq.htm#how Q. Is sugar vegan? – Buster, by e-mail. In the United States, some manufacturers have used bovine bone char for the carbon filter used in the refining stage of table sugar, for brown sugar — which is usually just white cane sugar that is toasted or mixed with molasses — for the beige type popularly but erroneously called “raw” sugar, and even for powdered sugar. The high heat transforms the bones into carbon, indistinguishable from that of wood or coal sources. The carbon is used over and over for several years; bone residue does not become part of the finished product. Because it has long been impossible to determine whether bones, wood,
