if a vegan should happen to accidently eat butter...

would it make them very very ill?

only if that vegan was lactose intolerant.

ANd assuming it wasn't a giant wad of butter, say more fat in a sitting than said vegan would normally consume at once.

Original Post by fluffydragon:

only if that vegan was lactose intolerant.

 

.... or if they believed it would make them ill.  If they have 'drunk, and seen the spider'.  A psychosomatic response. 

There may be in the cup
A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,
And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
Is not infected: but if one present
The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known
How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,
With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider.

The Winter's Tale

I've made rice with bacon fat before forgetting that a friend coming over for dinner was veggie.  I asked how he felt the next day and he was fine. So I figure since the quantity used wasn't enormous or anything it really didn't bother him.

You didn't tell him there was bacon fat in the rice ? :P

What if he was veggie for religious reasons?

i've never had an adverse reaction to accidentally eating dairy. HOWEVER, i have been sick from accidentally eating meat, and i didn't even KNOW i had eaten it until after i was sick. i always thought that was a wive's tale too, but this has happened to me twice over the past 5 years. i know of some people who have had no problems in these situations.

Questions needed before anyone can say anything:Lactose sensitive? is the  Vegan a 100% vegan and for how many years plus is he/she over weight or dieting when the butter was consumed.

I personally doubt there would be any problems with a normal amount of butter.

If still Worried? ..rub some  on the front of the wrist...if there is no reaction after 15 minutes from this, the largest organ in the body...the skin....then it should be okay with the butter ingestion.

The next best testing after ingestion of butter or anything foreign; is check the Blood Pressure...if elevated then the person is sensitive and a Doctor should be contacted.

Original Post by fluffydragon:

You didn't tell him there was bacon fat in the rice ? :P

What if he was veggie for religious reasons?

 No no he isn't. Just cuz his ex girlfriend was. I didn't think about what I had done til after we had dinner, so going with GI janes thought, I figured he'd be ok.

wow, thank you for all of this information!!! needless to say, i lived. today, i feel perfectly fine :D i just really freaked because ive heard stories about how butter can make you really sick, and had convinced myself that not eating dairy for so long, i had made myself lactose intolerant. evidently, not true. welp. now i know.

I'm not a vegan, I'm a vegetarian. One time my mom made rice with some kind of chicken as a base. I didn't notice it, but apparently there must have been a lot because 2-3 hours later I felt VERY sick to my stomach and I threw it up. No one else experienced this except me, and my mom mentioned she put that knor chicken cube broth stuff.

There was another time when I ate ramen oriental noodles at a friend's house thinking it was vegetarian (it's not, it uses beef fat as I discovered later), but I started feeling really naseous and threw up.

I've generally eaten very little meat my entire life from when I was a child, and when I was like 12ish I went vegetarian, so I think my body may be over sensitive to it, but it's definitely not psychological to me.

Original Post by themassageguy:

 

If still Worried? ..rub some  on the front of the wrist...if there is no reaction after 15 minutes from this, the largest organ in the body...the skin....then it should be okay with the butter ingestion.

Seriously? This is just silly. I'm a vegetarian and I get sick if I eat meat, but I can rub meat on my arm all day and have no reaction. It's because my STOMACH can't digest the enzymes in meat. Skin has nothing to do with it!

i always eat every part of thanksgiving dinner, even though i'm veggie the rest of the time (and newly vegan hooray), and i always feel like crap the next day. but it's traditional, and it means a lot to my mom.

I haven't gotten sick from butter, but after not eating cheese for awhile it can certainly be..uncomfortable...the next day if you eat a large amount . ;). That slice of chese pizza just isn't your friend a few hours later..

Also, it is really rude to make something with animal products and not tell the person. For example, my grandmother used chicken broth instead of vegetable broth for our Christmas Eve dinner. I had no idea, ate lots of soup and went to bed. I started throwing up a few hours later and kept it up all night. I didn't realize what had happened until I talked to her the next day. Ruined my Christmas. :(

So yea, don't be a huge jerk and think you can sneak in whatever the heck you and want and "they'll be fine if they don't know".

I don't know about butter, but I've gotten very sad in the stomach after accidentally eating meat products. I talked to a doctor about it, once, and she told me that because I don't eat meat my stomach and digestive tract contain a very low amount of enzymes and bacteria required to break down and adequately digest the meat product. So basically, bloat, gas, and indigestion abound. The food pretty much rots in your tum-tum until it passes because your body just isn't used to dealing with it anymore.

If you were to gradually ease back into an omnivorous diet, though, your body would build back up those enzymes over time.

I suppose it COULD make you sick if it was a very large quantity of butter. How much butter are we talking about here? A smear on a slice of toast or 'dipping my entree in melted butter sauce' butter?