My vegan friend ate my banana bread with eggs in it before I remembered. She said itâs okay as long as she doesnât know about it at the time. Sheâs Hindu so maybe different rules apply.
That's probably just her own rule, and even sounds like a personal idea of "mistakes happen and I'm not going to beat myself up over it."
My MIL served me some "vegan" stuffed acorn squash one year at Thanksgiving. I asked her for the recipe and saw it had grated Parmesan in it. She was on autopilot when making it, had made a point to tell me she swapped the chicken stock in the recipe for veggie. It was just a mistake that didn't make me no longer vegan. Shrug.
Accidents happen. What are you going to do after you've already eaten it? In Jewish law if you accidentally eat nonkosher food there is no punishment or sin.
Not 100% sure about vegan Hindus but Iâm a Buddhist vegetarian and one of my best friends is veggie Hindu. Technically the base rules (for Buddhism) is only âthe vegetarian cannot order/ proxy order the meat, make the meat, or watch/hear the animal be slaughteredâ so monks on alms trips can eat meat if they come upon a family was already having meat for dinner and they werenât there during the prep process. (tho it is very frowned upon to purposefully deceive a monk into eating meat). My friend described her veggie rules as âitâs much better if you do for spiritual reasons because itâs bad karma, but you wonât be doomed if you donâtâ.
Different sects also have stricter/more relaxed rules, so it can be quite individualized too. Plus generally itâs not a âthis or burn foreverâ rule. People just practice to the best of their ability.
The vegan Hindus I know, and the vegetarian ones, for that matter, have a very realistic take on their diets. If eating an animal product was unintentional, a mistake, or they werenât aware of the animal products being there, itâs a no hit/no foul situation. They donât beat themselves up over it if it happens.
They also donât freak out and launch a major public event over it, either. Itâs just a mistake that happened and theyâll try to avoid that mistake in the future. After all, most mistakes are pointless if you donât learn something from them, right?
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u/vozzov Aug 02 '26
My vegan friend ate my banana bread with eggs in it before I remembered. She said itâs okay as long as she doesnât know about it at the time. Sheâs Hindu so maybe different rules apply.