"They are NOT going to removed veggie/vegan labels."
If that's true, then why do the vegetarian samosas and pilau rice say only "Suitable for Vegetarians" on them?
They used to be "Suitable for Vegetarians and Vegans". Then, when the packaging was updated to have the new nutional pie chart on it, they were changed to only "Suitable for Vegetarians".
I've just phoned customer services and given them the barcode of these products and they have told me that they are *okay* for vegans.
So clearly the bit where they say this:
"I am pleased to advise you that it is Sainsbury's policy to label products that are suitable for vegans, as 'suitable for vegetarians and vegans', using the Sainsbury's vegan logo. The only exceptions are those groups of products, which are obviously vegan (and where our vegan customers have indicated that labelling is unnecessary). This includes plain waters, unseasoned flours and plain fruit and vegetables. The position of the logo on the pack may differ from product to product due to different pack formats."
...is not true! They must, as some point in the last year, have changed their policy to stop putting vegan on labels, or the vegetarian samosas and pilau rice would say suitable for vegans!
As an aside, as someone who has been saying that the policy has changed, based on two factors:
a) the fact that a whole bunch of previously vegan products had new vegetarian only labelling; and
b) the fact that when I called customer services last Tuesday to ask if it was true, they told me that they *had* changed their policy so that they would no longer label vegan products
...I resent very strongly the people at customer services saying that people like me have a "grudge" against Sainsburys and are feeding "false info" to people to "wind them up".
This is not a very nice way to treat loyal customers.
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