vegan cheese: I saw Vegetarian Edam cheese in Coles last night... What's the difference between vegetarian cheese and vegan cheese?|||If a vegetarian retains dairy products in their diet, their concern with cheese is whether or not it's made with rennet (a slaughter by-product.) The only requirement for vegetarian cheese is that it's rennetless or made with vegetable rennet. Vegans do not consume dairy, so a vegan cheese has to be made with soy milk (or rice milk) and not have any animal by-products in it at all (some soy cheese inexplicably have casein in them.)|||vegan cheese is made from soy milk(its tofu) veg cheese is made purely from the dairy n not the animal fat/rennet|||vegetarian cheese... is cheese with no meat. Vegan cheese is cheese with no animal products (milk, dairy)|||Vegetarian cheese is dairy but made with vegetable rennet instead of animal rennet. Vegan cheese is usually made with soy with no dairy.|||The vegan cheese tastes like crap and is bloody expensive. Some vegetarian cheeses are somewhat palatable.|||Vegetarian cheese does not have rennet, an enzyme from calf stomaches, and is usually made of cow's or goat's milk. Vegan cheese has no animal milks or other animals products at all, and is often made primarily of soy or rice (though, it is -not- the same as tofu, not in taste nor in marketing... though tofu can replace cheese in some recipes). There is also some soy cheese for lactose intolerant people that is confused with vegan cheese, but is not vegan, because it contains casein (from milk), just no lactose. Edit: Ouch, I'm too slow. Go Mockingbird!|||Well, alot of non vegetarian cheese has rennet which is extracted from a cow's stomach. Vegans don't eat cheese but, I am sure there are some fake soy cheeses out there.