The growth of vegan food has even spread to the virtual world after Google removed an egg from its salad emoji.

The company announced the decision and indicated the intention was to create an ‘inclusive vegan salad’ for its users.

That’s right, in a win for virtual vegans, the tech giant has accepted it must accept diversity and cater for cyber dietary requirements.

In a tweet this week, Jennifer Daniel, Google Emoji’s head of design, said: “There’s big talk about inclusion and diversity at Google.

“So if you need any evidence of [SIC] Google is making this priority may I direct your attention to the emoji – we’ve removed the egg in Android P beta 2, making this a more inclusive vegan salad.”

There’s big talk about inclusion and diversity at Google so if you need any evidence of Google is making this priority may I direct your attention to the ? emoji— we’ve removed the egg in Android P beta 2, making this a more inclusive vegan salad. pic.twitter.com/kzHY0A9ZjG

— Jennifer ?? (@jenniferdaniel) June 6, 2018

Apple is already ahead of the curve – featuring two salad emojis with no eggs in sight.

Google’s ovum-free salad depictions come ahead of World Emoji Day on July 17th, when it will reveal more diverse emojis, such as gender-neutral people, red heads and a revised look to their bacon rashers.

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What do you think of Google removing the egg from their salad emoji and what other improvements they could make to their emoji range?

Plum Phillips

Before she’s anything, Plum Phillips is vegan (for the animals and the planet in equal measure). But when she’s not chowing down on pure plant power, she’s a writer. Her writerly background is in general wellness and lifestyle topics, but here on Totally Vegan Buzz she veganised her contributions for current affairs, humour and a bunch of quizzes.

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