Hey Vegans,

[gordonzola]

If you eat those Soyco/Soymage/Galaxy Foods Vegan "cheese" slices, you should know that they just recalled about 10,000 cases of the stuff. It seems like they accidentally put casein (milk protein) in it. Oops.

But they assure retailers and consumers alike that in the future there will be no more mix-ups. You can feel secure in that because they are putting a new "quality assurance seal" on every future package. To think, someone actually went to business school to come up with an idea like that. "I know, we’ll put a new logo on it. That will regain consumer confidence! They’ll forget that we might have sent their kids to the hospital."*

If you want a refund I have an 800 # to call. E-mail me because I left it at work.

*I am a professional so I will mention that there have been no reported allergic reactions related to this recall yet.




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Comments

[lizdefiance.livejournal.com]

that's a strange accident. how do you accidentally dump milk stuff into that??

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Well, they make all those "rice slices" and "veggie slices" at the same factory as the vegan ones. My guess is that they either:

a) mislabelled one of those products

or

b) had the machine settings wrong.

It's not like it's hand made or anything. I imagine it's fully automated with machine arms dropping ingredients into a big mixer vat where they liquify it and then it feeds into another machine that drips just the right amount onto a plastic sheet. The "Vegan Chunks" are done on different machines which is why, I guess, they weren't recalled.

But a customer put it best yesterday. "Ugh. they added dairy and it didn't even taste better."

Does your Wild Oats carry those things?

[lizdefiance.livejournal.com]

for some reason i had it in my head that that company made ONLY vegan stuff ... but yeah, i think wo carries it. i'm not sure. the only soy cheese i like is tofutti's american cheese slices. besides them, i have to make all my own cheese at home.

i'm glad to hear it doesn't taste any better, though. glad i'm not missing out on anything ..

[(Anonymous)]

gordonzolalala - since it comes as no surprise that a logo would be ready to go for something like dairy dumping in a vegan factory, when we had a logo for a war that had yet to be declared on an enemy that has still yet to be identified, only 3 hours after the trade center fell, am wondering
if perhaps there is one school of advertising responsible for the training of such brilliant and creative minds, and if so, if that is where the restless punk masses should go and infiltrate, gaining the tools and credentials to crank out future logos to be ready for things like stolen presidential elections, accidental bombing of civilian "targets" or silently repealed civil rights laws.... maybe the revolution can no longer be televised, but there is no reason why it cannot be advertised.

xxxoo ~playful dolphin roadkill supreme