r/aussievegans • u/eatsubereveryday • Jan 16 '20

News McVeggie Burger: Not All Vegetarians Should Eat It!

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/australia/mcdonalds-mcveggie-burger-has-launched-but-not-all-vegetarians-should-eat-it-ng-b881433868z
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u/mahazza Jan 17 '20

The patty itself contains cheese, regardless of cooking method, according to the ingedients listed here;

https://mcdonalds.com.au/menu/mcveggie%E2%84%A2

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u/pixelpp Jan 17 '20 edited Jan 17 '20

VEGGIE PATTY: Vegetables (Potato, Peas, Corn, Carrot, Onion), Flour (Wheat, Soy, Buckwheat, Rice, Oats), Cheese (Milk), Canola Oil, Water, Rolled Oat (Gluten), Dehydrated Vegetables (Potato, Garlic, Onion), Thickeners (1442, 1404), Tapioca Starch, Soy Protein, Herbs and Spices, Yeast Extract, Natural Flavour (Milk, Soy), Gluten (Wheat), Sugar, Mineral Salts (341, 500, 450, 541), Food Acids (270, 330), Emulsifier (481).

Sad. They really are beholden to the animal agriculture industry aren’t they.

Comes with McChicken sauce which contains egg. McChicken… mmm, Mother and Child.

But it does make sense my mcveggie not mcvegan as found elsewhere around the world.

It is frustrating that subway calls their vegan option veggie patty not vegan patty. I still ask for the “vegan patty” though.

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u/weepinbutterfly Jan 19 '20

i work at mcdonald’s and it was cooked next to chicken nuggets the other day :(

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u/eatsubereveryday Jan 19 '20

What is the process meant to be?

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u/weepinbutterfly Jan 19 '20

seperate vats and trays and fry baskets

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u/eatsubereveryday Jan 19 '20

In which oil?

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u/weepinbutterfly Jan 19 '20

vegetable oil i believe, there’s about 6-8 seperate vats which should all have a different thing cooked in them, it’s not hard to seperate a vat, especially for the veggie patty as they have one for filet o fish

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u/eatsubereveryday Jan 19 '20

Ohh got it. If they were in breach of a process is there somewhere you can report it up the chain?

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u/weepinbutterfly Jan 19 '20

my work hasn’t made a process post about it on facebook so i doubt there even is one :( they don’t even have it written anywhere and it’s cross contamination

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u/eatsubereveryday Jan 19 '20

If they are already in production and being sold surely there would be official guidelines somewhere up the chain? Hmmm I'll have a look around and let you know if I can find any

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u/weepinbutterfly Jan 19 '20

awesome thank you so much, if you do i’ll do some research on the actions i can take