This article from Healthline touches on a great topic, which is trying to determine whether or not something is actually vegan. This piece goes through how to approach whether or not a basic bagel might be vegan or not. It’s frustrating when you’re reading labels and wondering why they just had to add that touch of milk powder or splash of meat whatever. Why did you have to put that in there? It actually feels like a conspiracy at times. It’s even more frustrating when your body can’t deal with cow’s milk proteins, there’s no need for those cow’s milk proteins to be in the product, and yet there they are.