Thai Dogman
Feb 17th, 2012, 08:50 AM
Hi fellow vegans:
I live in Thailand and I want to spread veganism by making the sort of products that are commercially available in the Uk and US as it is far too expensive for Thai people to pay western money for foodstuffs let alone the added cost that importation and duty would put on buying foods made in Europe and that's not counting the environmental cost.
Thai Vegans and vegetarians tend to be younger, university educated and urban -indeed precisely the profile you would expect and they need access to ready made vegetarian foods at appropriate prices.
We already have a Good soya milk industry (actually I might be looking to export it) but there is no ricemilk or oat milk on sale that is not imported at a huge cost (and we are a rice exporter), and we produce tofu (but no fermented tofu products as indonesia does). We can bulk buy most raw foodstuffs.
The recipes I find on the net seem to produce nothing like the commercial stuff and are poor substitutes for people using only local store bought stuff, but we are major producers of ingerdients like Gura gum and carrageen .
Please no patronising instructions to use Google ( I have had people on other sites actually doing this) . If ANyone has any information about commercial recipes I would be very gratefull.
And that includes vegan dog food.
regards
I live in Thailand and I want to spread veganism by making the sort of products that are commercially available in the Uk and US as it is far too expensive for Thai people to pay western money for foodstuffs let alone the added cost that importation and duty would put on buying foods made in Europe and that's not counting the environmental cost.
Thai Vegans and vegetarians tend to be younger, university educated and urban -indeed precisely the profile you would expect and they need access to ready made vegetarian foods at appropriate prices.
We already have a Good soya milk industry (actually I might be looking to export it) but there is no ricemilk or oat milk on sale that is not imported at a huge cost (and we are a rice exporter), and we produce tofu (but no fermented tofu products as indonesia does). We can bulk buy most raw foodstuffs.
The recipes I find on the net seem to produce nothing like the commercial stuff and are poor substitutes for people using only local store bought stuff, but we are major producers of ingerdients like Gura gum and carrageen .
Please no patronising instructions to use Google ( I have had people on other sites actually doing this) . If ANyone has any information about commercial recipes I would be very gratefull.
And that includes vegan dog food.
regards