What faux meat products are non-vegan, like Amys for example?
Technically, Amy’s products that have vegan ingredients are vegan. I would be hard-pressed to go outside right now and find any soil whatseover that has had no animal residues; animals have been dying and disintegrating into soil, thus fertiliziing it, since the beginning of time. Everything from insects to birds to mammals must die and their bodies feed the soil that once fed them. Organic AND non-organic produce grows in soil that has been fertilized with animal waste or animal “part rendering”, as you put it, either because the farmers/growers add the manure/animals themselves or if it happens naturally. It is virtually impossible to find animal-free soil. Even in my mom’s garden (tomatoes, gooseberries and cucumbers), there are thousands of insects dying every day beneath the soil, hundreds of worms, probably tens of thousands of ants. Not to mention the random dead birds or occassional squirrel we’ve found in there. It would be helpful if you provided sources for your information