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Many margarines have no animal products but most of them do have palm oil, for which many animals are killed, rain forests are destroyed, and often local communities uprooted. For this reason vegans who are aware of the problems with palm oil usually do not use products with palm oil. Fortunately, there are lots of alternatives.

Willow Run margarine

If you can find it, try Willow Run soy margarine (available in the Northeastern United States). It has no palm oil in it. Spectrum brand soy margarine is also vegan and has no palm oil in it, but it doesn’t have as good a flavor or texture.

Make your own vegan butter

There’s a technical explanation of butter and recipes for several varieties of vegan butter on veganbaking.net. Or try a simpler recipe for futter.

Olive Oil and Sea Salt

For toast, try olive oil and sea salt.

Flax Seed Oil

Serve your vegetables with flax seed oil instead of butter. But only drizzle it over your cooked vegetables. The fatty acids in the oil become unstable at high temperatures, so you should never cook with flax oil.

Mashed Avocado

Mashed avocado is a great spread for bread. Although its flavor is different, its texture is rich and creamy. It is sometimes used in baking as well.

Onion Butter

If you’ve never tried onion butter, you won’t believe how sweet and creamy it is. Onion butter is made by slowly cooking onions for 6-8 hours. They shrink down into a very soft and spreadable vegetable butter. It’s great on toast, crusty bread or vegetables.

Carrot Butter, Squash Butter and Carrot Cashew Butter

Carrot butter, ginger squash butter, and carrot cashew butter go well with any type of bread or toast, but they go especially well with corn bread.

Fruit Butter

Fruit butters like pear and apple butter make great thick spreads for pancakes and waffles.

Coconut Oil

Coconut oil tastes nothing like butter, but it makes a great oil for baked goods and sauteeing foods. In Indian cooking, coconut oil can be used in place of ghee. It can also be used on pancakes, muffins and sweet breads.

Sesame Oil or Corn Oil for Baking

Light sesame oil or corn oil can also be used in place of butter in baking. If you use sesame oil, make sure to get the untoasted sesame oil, not the toasted oil which has a strong flavor and is better suited to savory dishes. Corn oil has a slightly buttery taste. If you use corn oil, make sure it is organic and GMO-free. Corn is very often genetically modified and also a frequently pesticide-laden crop. Or skip the oil altogether and just use applesauce to moisten your baked goods.

Frosting

Margarine is often considered an essential ingredient in frosting, but there are alternatives. Coconut oil can sometimes be used. Cooked flour frostings usually call for only a small amount of margarine, so coconut oil can often be used instead. Some types of frosting don’t require margarine at all, like ganache, cashew cream frosting, and cream cheese frosting. If you’re making a cream cheese frosting, be sure to use a brand that’s vegan, palm oil-free and trans fat-free, like Galaxy Foods or Trader Joe’s vegan cream cheeses.

Caramel

Caramel also calls for butter or margarine most of the time. But with a little creativity, you can make a margarine-free version, like coconut caramel.

These muffins aren’t meant to be cornbread cooked in a muffin tin – they’re sweet.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup cornmeal
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 cup corn or vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp lemon juice plus soymilk to equal 3/4 cup
• 2 tbsp soy sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 tsp lemon extract

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Line 12-cup muffin tin with paper cups.
3. Combine flour through sugar in one bowl.
4. Thoroughly combine remaining ingredients in second bowl.
5. Mix wet and dry together.
6. Fill cups 2/3rds full.
7. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done.

Lyrics:

Written in English and Jamaican Language and style.
Translations in brackets

Selamta (Greetings in Amharic)
Ital (natural) we Ital and Vegan we Vegan
I and I (we) eat from the earth and leave the animals to give birth
No deaders (dead flesh) No fur No feathers
When I tell people I don’t eat meat, fish or dairy
They look at me strangely
They don’t realise I eat a very wide variety
Listen to Macka.B
Yo!

Chorus x2
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me eat
When me tell them say me nu (don’t) eat no fish nor no meat no
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me nyam (eat)
When me tell them say that I’m a vegan

Verse1
Well me nu eat no meat no fish no cheese nor no egg
Nothing with no foot no eye no wing nor no head
Nothing with no lip no ears no toe nor no leg
Prefer fruit and vegetables instead
Me careful and me choosy about what I’m eating
My medicines my food my food is my medicine
When I tell people that me nu eat dem deh (those) things
The look at me and scratch their chin
And start wondering

Chorus
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me eat
When me tell them say me nu eat no fish nor no meat no
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me nyam
When me tell them say that I’m a vegan
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me eat
When me tell them say me nu eat no fish nor no meat no
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me eat
Dou you want to hear wha me eat?

Verse 2
I eat
Callaloo, Ackee, Sweet Potato,
Yam, Banana and Tomato
Cabbage, Spinach, Avocado,
Cho Cho, Butter Beans and Coco
Courgettes, Millet, Plantain,
Rice and Peas and Pumpkin
Mango, Dates and Guava,
Chick peas and Cassava
Brussel sprouts and Caulifower.
Onion, Fennel and Cucumber
Plum, Pear and Papaya,
Aubergine and Soya
Lime , Lentils and Quinoa,
Wholemeal Bread and Wholemeal Flour
Watercress and Okra,
Tofu and Sweet Pepper
Cous Cous and Carrots ,
Broccoli and Coconut
Peaches, Apples, Apricot
Breadfruit, Jackfruit, Sour sop
Pistachios, Cashews and Almonds
Walnuts, Peanuts also Pecan
Sesame Seeds, Sunflower…, Lemon
Orange , Pineapple and Melon
Bulghar Wheat and Garlic, Kiwi, Corn and Turnip,
Hijiki and Rocket, Pap Choy and Pomegranite
Berries, Cherries and Strawberries
Beetroot ,Grapefruit and Celeries
You see the meat’s not necessary
We tell them say

Chorus x2
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me eat
When me tell them say me nu eat no fish nor no meat no
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me nyam
When me tell them say that I’m a vegan

Verse 3
Look how me big and me say look how me strong
Some people can’t believe that me a vegetarian
If you want a healthy body check the real Rastaman
Cause Rastaman will tell you about the right nutrition
Me get my Calcium ,my Sodium me get Potassium
Me get my Zinc,me get my Iron and my Magnesium
Instead of nyam(eat) the fish I nyam what the fish nyam
Like the Kelp and Irish Moss that grow in the ocean
Me get me Proteins and my Minerals, me get me Calories
The Vitamins A the B the C the D the E,the F the G
Essential fatty acids like the Omega 3
Me get me fibre and me Carbohydrates in my body
Don’t forget your Water drink a few glasses a day
The toxins in your body just flush them away
Some of the things you eat stop in your body and decay
When it comes to food I don’t play
We tell them say

Chorus x2
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me eat
When me tell them say me nu eat no fish nor no meat no
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me nyam
When me tell them say that I’m a vegan

Verse 4
A lot of people would stop eat the meat
If they had to kill the animals before they could eat
Look at the way the animals them get treat
The unsanitary conditions where some of them keep
If we were supposed to eat the meat we would have sharp teeth
You wouldn’t need a Knife and fork can you see it
You can’t eat it raw you have to cook it complete
And put on Vegetable seasoning to make it taste sweet

Chorus x2
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me eat
When me tell them say me nu eat no fish nor no meat no
Wha me eat them a wonder wha me nyam
When me tell them say that I’m a vegan

Verse 5
It’s up to you you can eat what you want to
You can be a vegetarian and be healthy too
There’s a lot of choice around many foods are on view
I just remember some more I forgot to tell you
The Nectarines and Clementines and Tangerines and Guanabana
Lychhe, Oats and Ginger, Kale and Spirulina
Mung Beans, Wholmeal Pasta