Imagine That!

[misledyouth00]

To Green Mt. Coffee Company:

Hi,
I was just wondering if any of your K Cups in coffee contained animal products.
They just installed a K-Cup taking coffee machine in the break room at my job and
I was wondering how many, if any of your coffee flavors contained animal
products and were safe for vegan consumption. I couldn't find any information

Comments

[br0ken_dolly]

i think it's truthful. in my experience (my college bff worked for a coffee co briefly as an analytical chemist) flavored coffees are flavored with completely synthetic chemicals (mmmtasty!), not actual milk or egg products (or meat or honey for that matter).

[laceyslostlove]

agreed! I've never seen a coffee flavored with animal products.

[absinthea]

Meat coffee...you don't have to be vegan to think that sounds nasty.

[kirbyish]

There's a coffee shop near Penn that sells chocolate flavored coffee. Completely vegan. Mmmmmmhm.

[oxymoron02]

I only know of one type of coffee, the name escapes me at the moment, that uses animals to process. It's really expensive. The coffee cherries (for want of the correct name) is eaten by a monkey, and the beans are removed by hand from the feces.

[slim_ivory_rose]

what?! who would pay extra for THAT? ummm no thanks!

[oxymoron02]

IDK, it's poop to me, and I don't eat or drink poop. People do weird things. My big curiosity is who's idea was it to *try* picking through monkey poop to salvage and consume coffee beans?

[misledyouth00]

Monkeys are in on this too!? I heard of one company that uses weasel digested coffee beans but I didn't know they went to other animals after that.

[absinthea]

Totally nit-picking, but I would suggest that the following line in your letter:
I was wondering how many, if any of your coffee flavors contained animal
products and were safe for vegan consumption.

be re-wrote to say "if any of your coffee flavors contained animal products, which are not safe for vegan consumption" OR "if any of your coffee flavors are free of animal products and are safe for vegan consumption".

The way you had it written sounded like it is only safe for vegans if it CONTAINS animal products.

[sthira_sukha]

Agreed. And maybe emend it to "contained animal products, including honey" or "free of animal products," respectively, or list some other common animal products ("such as condensed milk, natural flavorings or extracts derived from dairy products, [etc.]"). The latter are the animal-derived ingredients I'd most expect as a possibility in some flavored coffees.

[badmoviescript]

Sounds truthful. That's a pretty awesome company overall and I think they have a pretty solid understanding of what vegan is. I wish they still had coffee shops in the Midwest, but I think they're only on the east coast now. There used to be one right by my house that my mom and I would always go to. I miss it.