Can guinea pigs eat human vegan meals?

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MinnieZvonar

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Hi there, this sounds like a crazy question, but, my husband decided to go on a diet, and purchased 20 meals that are all Vegan and gluten free. He opened one up and didn’t like it. so now I have 19 plastic containers full of mashed vegetables. I was just wondering are they piggie safe? My pigs love it when I mash their veggies up anyways.
 
I wouldn’t have thought it was a good idea. I would imagine the ingredients list states other ingredients - chemicals/preservatives etc?
 
I would avoid pre-packaged food for guinea pigs.
Even if the contents are vegan they can still contain oils, salt, spices and all manner of additives which could be harmful.
I think prole often assume that vegan is a by word for healthy, but remember that coke, Oreos, white bread and french fries are all vegan too.
 
MinnieZvonar said:
I don’t do it often, but on super hot days I mash them up and put them in the fridge so it’s cold, to cool them down a bit.
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Are you feeding them cooked veggies? Their gut is designed to work with raw uncooked veggies. They shouldn’t have anything that has been processed in any way and that includes cooking.
 
I always put food outside, have done it for years. I started to put food outside when I saw small stray kittens outside my house years ago. I never stopped putting food outside since that time. In the morning, all the food I left out the night before are totally gone. I also buy big bags of dog food on sale and put scoops of it outside, always gone in the morning. I don't have dogs but buy dog food for stray outside animals.

I would just put them outside for stray animals to eat.
 
pig in the city said:
Donate the food to a food bank. You will have helped someone. As a vegan l never buy processed food. Eat the same raw veggies as the piggies!
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Yes home cooked vegan food is a great way to share veggies with piggies at the pre-cooking stage! My piggies always get a bit of whatever veggies we are having for dinner, tonight it will be sweet potatoes and red pepper. We usually chop the stuff the piggies will like first and make piggy dinner and the giant snails dinner before we start touching the onions or chillis...
 
Swissgreys said:
I would avoid pre-packaged food for guinea pigs.
Even if the contents are vegan they can still contain oils, salt, spices and all manner of additives which could be harmful.
I think prole often assume that vegan is a by word for healthy, but remember that coke, Oreos, white bread and french fries are all vegan too.
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Oreos aren't vegan in Europe, don't they use whey powder? Also apparently Kraft also gets sugar from suppliers that isn't necessarily vegan (uses animal-derived charcoal for processing). French fries are vegan as long as they're fried in separate oil from anything else...so I wouldn't trust most fast food places on that one. I wonder about Coke for the same reason as the Oreos sugar thing...I have a Coke can next to me that doesn't claim to be vegan or even vegetarian, and most of the time things like that do.
...I apologise if that comes across as rude, I don't mean it to. I get quite interested in this stuff because I have several friends with specific dietary requirements, so I read up on it a lot. The amount of things that can rule a food out as being vegan is insane in all honesty, the sugar issue being only one of many!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Yes home cooked vegan food is a great way to share veggies with piggies at the pre-cooking stage! My piggies always get a bit of whatever veggies we are having for dinner, tonight it will be sweet potatoes and red pepper. We usually chop the stuff the piggies will like first and make piggy dinner and the giant snails dinner before we start touching the onions or chillis...
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I do that too! Aren’t we strange? I do it without even thinking, get two bowls out, one for the piggies one for us :))
 
Lorcan said:
Oreos aren't vegan in Europe, don't they use whey powder? Also apparently Kraft also gets sugar from suppliers that isn't necessarily vegan (uses animal-derived charcoal for processing). French fries are vegan as long as they're fried in separate oil from anything else...so I wouldn't trust most fast food places on that one. I wonder about Coke for the same reason as the Oreos sugar thing...I have a Coke can next to me that doesn't claim to be vegan or even vegetarian, and most of the time things like that do.
...I apologise if that comes across as rude, I don't mean it to. I get quite interested in this stuff because I have several friends with specific dietary requirements, so I read up on it a lot. The amount of things that can rule a food out as being vegan is insane in all honesty, the sugar issue being only one of many!
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It doesn't come across as rude at all @Lorcan - you asked very relevant questions in a very polite manner.
Only stupid people never ask questions ;)

I actually live in Switzerland so although technically we are geographically in Europe, it isn't quite the same as living in Europe (if that makes sense).
The Swiss never joined the European Union for that very reason - they will do things their own way, and no one else will tell them differently.
So I can't really comment from a European perspective, but Coke here is most definitely vegan, but then Coke in Switzerland is actually made in Switzerland, so the ingredients will be sourced differently due to tighter controls and a smaller market (I don't imagine it is profitable for Coca Cola to export their Swiss Made Coke :))).

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I am not sure about the Oreo thing and we currently don't have any in the house (becasue quite frankly, vegan or not, they are not something I want to eat too often), but I will certainly check this next time I am in the supermarket.
I am fairly sure they are vegan here becasue I have a friend who is pretty strict about this sort of thing, and she recently bought them along to a coffee morning that we both attended. But I will let you know.
 
Swissgreys said:
It doesn't come across as rude at all @Lorcan - you asked very relevant questions in a very polite manner.
Only stupid people never ask questions ;)

I actually live in Switzerland so although technically we are geographically in Europe, it isn't quite the same as living in Europe (if that makes sense).
The Swiss never joined the European Union for that very reason - they will do things their own way, and no one else will tell them differently.
So I can't really comment from a European perspective, but Coke here is most definitely vegan, but then Coke in Switzerland is actually made in Switzerland, so the ingredients will be sourced differently due to tighter controls and a smaller market (I don't imagine it is profitable for Coca Cola to export their Swiss Made Coke :))).

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I am not sure about the Oreo thing and we currently don't have any in the house (becasue quite frankly, vegan or not, they are not something I want to eat too often), but I will certainly check this next time I am in the supermarket.
I am fairly sure they are vegan here becasue I have a friend who is pretty strict about this sort of thing, and she recently bought them along to a coffee morning that we both attended. But I will let you know.
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I don't blame you, Oreos are kinda naff tbh. Peanut butter ones are good, though. As long as you only eat maybe one a fortnight :)) I've since checked and apparently Pepsi don't have a Vegan label on their cans either which probably means they are vegan and just...don't? I find that's kind of rare though, if something is vegan companies are usually leaping to put "Vegan Society Approved" on their wrappers.
Hah, I said European because that was the continent, I completely blanked on the whole EU thing. Sorry about that, Brexit....not.

Funny story for you, a woman I know was eating a pack of...something, I think it was one of those dried bean mixes. You know like those dried broad bean packs you can get? So she's eating one of these and she suddenly says, "Uh oh, these don't say they're vegetarian." I took a look over the ingredients, there was nothing animal related at all in them. I tell her this, and she takes them back. I think that's the end of it when, 5 minutes later, I realise she's studying the bag again. "Aha! I know what it is!" "What what is?" "What makes it not vegetarian. I bet it's the gluten."
Never thought I'd have to explain to a woman my mother's age what gluten is, but...I did. And then she looked it up herself and was like, "Oh. You're right." She almost sounded disappointed. It was a long night.
 
Swissgreys said:
I'll bring you a bottle when I eventaully make it over for a guinea pig event - it even says Made in Switzerland on the lid :D
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English ones generally say "Please Recycle Me" on the lid. Northern Irish ones don't. I find it kind of amusing.
 
Lorcan said:
English ones generally say "Please Recycle Me" on the lid. Northern Irish ones don't. I find it kind of amusing.
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I find it entertaining that the Swiss ones say 'Made in Switzerland' in English, which is not even an official language here.
With 4 official languages to choose from I love that they don't choose one of those - crazy Swiss.
 
Swissgreys said:
I find it entertaining that the Swiss ones say 'Made in Switzerland' in English, which is not even an official language here.
With 4 official languages to choose from I love that they don't choose one of those - crazy Swiss.
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They probably had a referendum to decide....
 
That's the problem with raising kids here.
Tonight I told the 13 year old that if she didn't clean her bedroom she couldn't have a friend for a sleepover this weekend.
She told me we would be taking a vote, and she would 'advise me of the the outcome'?
Whatever happened to door slamming and eye rolling?
 
To be fair what I did was say "ok" and then go to the friends house instead.

Kids these days...
 
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