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Revelation34 posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

In English the term "vegan" is used as a qualifier. Anything that follows it is vegan (without animal products). vegan cookies means no eggs, butter, or milk. Vegan sauce means no meat, butter, milk, etc. vegan cheese means no dairy or rennet. It's really not at all difficult. using the qualifier word vegan is calling it something else.

cheese1
noun
mass noun

1A food made from the pressed curds of milk, firm and elastic or soft and semi-liquid in texture.
'grated cheese'

milk
noun
mass noun

1An opaque white fluid rich in fat and protein, secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young.
'a healthy mother will produce enough milk for her baby'

1.1 The milk from cows (or goats or sheep) as consumed by humans.
'a glass of milk'

When you talk to people in real life, you quickly realize that people do not always use words literally and sometimes omit words because they are not necessary for the speaker's meaning to be understood.

"Vegan cheese" would be more accurately called "vegan cheese substitute," but it is completely unnecessary to say "substitute" since it is obvious to any adult with a brain that cheese cannot be vegan, and thus "vegan cheese" would not literally be cheese, but a cheese-like substance that vegans use in place of it.

That's just how communication works.
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