Yesterday, I visited my aunty, at tea time she served us homemade vegan wafer cookies. However, I was quite disappointed after tasting them, she used vanilla extract in them. I wonder if vanilla extract is non-vegan cause it has sugar and I heard that sugar factories used bone char to make sugar. Also, the vanilla contains castoreum! Even as a vegetarian I would still choose not to eat it. How can a vegan use vanilla extract? Being an ethical vegan I think she needs to quit using vanilla extract.
What are your thoughts on using vanilla extract as a vegan?
