Q: How do I identify animal free foods?

A: It is easy to avoid meat, fish, eggs, milk, cheese, honey and foods listing these as ingredients. This is all that is needed to achieve more than 95% of the potential benefit to animals.

To go further, one needs to become aware of some of the other names that animal products go under, such as gelatine - made from animal bones - whey and casein, which are milk derivatives, and carmine which is a red colorant made from crushed beetles. A list of common names is located here.

As well as different names for animal products manufacturers use numbers to identify ingredients in their products. A list of numbers is located here