unvegan

English

Alternative forms

• un-vegan

Etymology

From un- +‎ vegan.

Adjective

unvegan (comparative more unvegan, superlative most unvegan)

1. Not vegan.
   • 2008, Jae Steele, Get It Ripe: A Fresh Take on Vegan Cooking and Living, Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN:

     Lactic acid: a byproduct of both animal and plant metabolism, so it’s not always unvegan; found in some fermented foods and body care products.

   • 2009, Alicia C. Simpson, Quick & Easy Vegan Comfort Food: Over 150 Great-Tasting, Down-Home Recipes and 65 Everyday Meal Ideas for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, New York, N.Y.: The Experiment, →ISBN, page 27:

     Since “steak knife” sounds really “unvegan” we'll call it the “seitan knife” for now.

   • 2010, Jenn Shagrin, Veganize This!: From Surf & Turf to Ice-Cream Pie, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:

     I first made this recipe in the very unvegan Flagstaff, Arizona, for a dinner party attended by 80 percent omnivores. […] Inspired by an original most unvegan recipe by Emeril Lagasse and Jessie Tirsch.

   • 2015, Yonassan Gershom, Kapporos Then and Now: Toward a More Compassionate Tradition, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:

     Even the tiniest bit of chometz would render the water unusable. (That’s similar to how using the tiniest bit of animal product would render a person completely un[-]vegan in some people’s eyes.)

   • 2016, Joseph J. Luciani, “Why You Crave Food, and What You Can Do About It”, in Thin from Within: The Powerful Self-Coaching Program for Permanent Weight Loss, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 40:

     Although the chips weren’t unvegan, they were unhealthy.

   • 2017, Eric C. Lindstrom, The Skeptical Vegan: My Journey from Notorious Meat Eater to Tofu-Munching Vegan—A Survival Guide, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

     As vegan parents, we are also always prepared to replace unvegan passages with vegan phrases in children’s books and songs to reinforce the philosophy and lifestyle we want to instill in them from an early age. […] The fact that an omnivore could enjoy a fully vegan meal, for some reason, inspires them to mention it would be better with meat. They want to be as unvegan as possible when this argument is used.

   • 2017, Rachel Grant, Tinderbox (Flashpoint Series), Janus Publishing, →ISBN:

     She hoped her dad wouldn’t insist on them dining together tonight, because she wanted to drown her sorrows in a big, very unhealthy, very unvegan chocolate milkshake.

   • 2018, Gesine Bullock-Prado, Fantastical Cakes: Incredible Creations for the Baker in Anyone, Running Press, →ISBN:

     However, if you are a strict vegan or baking for a strict vegan, the traditional processing of cane sugar uses char from animal bones to break down and bleach the granules, which makes the sugar “unvegan.”

   • 2018, Eric C. Lindstrom, The Smart Parent’s Guide to Raising Vegan Kids: Lessons for Littles in Plant-Based Eating and Compassionate Living, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

     Many of the classics are steeped in so much cultural history and tradition about meat, milk, and eggs, and most authors naturally carry these unvegan messages into their own recent works.

   • 2018, “Winners and losers”, in Matthew Engel, editor, WHAT Did You Say Stopped Play?: 25 Years of the Wisden Chronicle, Wisden, →ISBN, page 206:

     The vegan teetotaller Greg Chappell has fulfilled two-thirds of a promise to his very unvegan and unteetotal old team-mate Doug Walters. Chappell had said he would eat a steak, drink beer and smoke a cigarette if Walters managed to live until his sixtieth birthday – and he reached the milestone in 2005.

   • 2022, Kendra Coulter, Josh Milburn, “(Not) Serving Animals and Aiming Higher: Cultivating Ethical and Sustainable Plant-Based Businesses and Humane Jobs”, in Natalie Thomas, editor, Animals and Business Ethics (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part I (Animals and Business Practices, Work, Labour and Jobs), page 54:

     Thus, we must be wary of being too quick to judge vegan businesses for engaging in putatively or allegedly “unvegan” activities and instead recognize the complexities of striving to pursue the most ethical options in a complex and constrained political-economic context.

Synonyms

• nonvegan