do you guys carry endangered species bars? are they even vegan (like, the ones w/o milk?)
 

How can you even tell which brand of sugar they use?

Not all white sugar is processed this way...

Thank goodness for the popularity of good ol' corn surp' !
 

If the sugar source is ever in question, we just call the company and find out. Blue Sky knew exactly what we were talking about and said it was indeed bone-char processed.

And, yes, (earlier comment) we do carry some endangered species chocolates.
 

Those ass-monkeys!

The non bone char sugar is just as cheap.

I really don't understand the concept of white sugar anyways?

You start with something that naturally has a pleasant flavor & color and make it into some weird chemical crap.
 

I sent them a letter about this and then they sent this reply.

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Dear Widerstand,

Thank you very much for your e mail. I appreciate your concerns and I will try
to answer you with true and accurate information.

We never used evaporated cane juice in the non-organic Blue Sky soda. We used
high fructose corn syrup until recently changing to sugar and eliminating high
fructose corn syrup from our product lines due to many consumer requests.

We continue to make Blue Sky Organic with organic evaporated cane juice for
those consumers who wish to avoid refined cane sugar for any reason. We
provide consumers a choice. We appreciate our consumers very much and hence
offer these options.

There are no animal products in the sugar itself, which is certified kosher.
Bone char is made from cattle bones only, never from those of other animals.
The function of the bone char is to remove impurities from raw sugar as a
filter.

The bone char is not "in" the sugar, but the bone char is used only as
a filter,
similar to a coffee filter. Its use is a very common practice in sugar
refining,
and is currently the best available filter to remove impurities that are not
healthy for any consumer.

I appreciate the ?vegan? diet and I have read about it in detail. I assure
you there is NO bone or animal product in the sugar we use. There is no
cellulose in filtered coffee from a coffee filter and there is no bone char or
bone char fragments in any sugar we use. All sugar is filtered through a
cellulose cut off filter after bone char filtration and hence there is NO
chance for any bone char or bone char fragments in the sugar.

Sincerely,


Thomas P. Davis, Ph.D.
 

.. so in other words, they don't actually understand what "vegan" means.

Ph.D., pshaw.
 

I wrote them a letter too.
 

.... and that letter received the same form letter and completely ignored my specific questions and concerns.

disappointing...
 

I wonder if they'd filter their coffee with something I pulled out of a trashcan.... probably not.
Of course, it's somehow magically different. Right...?