Vegan Burgers (are not, if cooked on the same grill)

Try making your own vegan cheeseburger (Madeleine Olivia). It’s empowering to learn to make a few recipes yourself. Master this, and you’ll have a cholesterol-free and animal-kind alternative fast food treat, whenever you want. Cheaper too.

There is a now a huge market for vegan burgers, which has led to the main chains offering plant-based versions. Some people like this, others prefer not to support outlets that also make money from factory-farmed meat.

One controversial area is that people have recently found out that some fast food restaurants, cook their vegan burgers on the same grills as they cook the meat, which rather defeats the point (both for ethics and allergies). Burger King’s ‘vegan whoppers’ will have bits of real bacon in them.

Some fast food restaurants (like London’s Unity Diner which serves vegan food to fund its farm sanctuary) only serves items in compostable packaging, to avoid littering of plastic. So why can’t all the others do that too?

KFC fries its chips in factory-farmed chicken fat. And abroad, McDonald’s fries are not always vegan (apparently they are in England, and at least their plant burgers are cooked in dedicated areas, to avoid cross-contamination.