Important 'Surprising Facts' For 'orthodox Vegetarians'
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• November 6, 2001
Dear Fellow Members, This could be a long email, But thought I will share it with you all. Hope this helps AdiyEn srikanth It turns out that products which were considered 100 per cent vegetarian in fact have a 'non-vegetarian' link, creating a scare among orthodox vegetarians. The guilty product are mentioned in a book published by India's Animal Welfare Board titled the 'Compassionate Consumer: Animal Based Products' which springs a few surprises. The book also urges consumers to shun use of animal based products which may force manufacturers to find alternatives Very few know that the innocuous tube of toothpaste often contains bone ash or calcium phosphate mostly of animal origin. Only eight brands have been found to be 'vegetarian'. Some of the well-known brands are missing from the list. The book claims that a particular brand of 'Chyawanprash' uses grounded deer antlers. Some varieties of iron tonic or haemoglobin are nothing but blood of buffaloes killed in slaughter houses. In August 1999 the Supreme Court had banned use of extracted haemoglobin but later pharmaceutical companies obtained a stay order. However, iron tonics manufactured from ferric ammonium citrate salt are not made of extracted blood. Many brands of 'Agarbattis' or incense sticks have adhesives usually of animal origin and some perfumes could also contain a fixative of animal origin called 'Nakhla' made of mussels. Strong veggies fear that by lighting 'Agarbattis' made of animal origin they would be incurring divine wrath rather than blessing. Ice creams barring a few brands could contain eggs or gelatin obtained from boiling cattle udders, nose and anus. Some types of biscuits and cakes apart from having eggs could have powdered fish. Chocolates commonly use egg whites or albumin shellac and most imported or foreign cheese contain calf or animal rennet--basically acids obtained by slitting the stomach while the animal is still alive. Many orthodox vegetarians don't know that many varieties of contraceptive condoms are made of intestines of sheep. Many varieties of wine are in fact non-vegetarian. The purifying agents for wine may include ox blood, bone marrow, fish oil or egg white. Certain varities of beauty moisturizers contain udder and umbilical extracts while some creams have connective tissues. Some varieties of sun tan lotions lotions contain turtle oil. Animal lovers have meanwhile decided to form a forum and urge the government to make it compulsory for manufacturers to indicate on labels of their products whether they are of vegetarian or animal origin. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------------------------------------------- - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - To Post a message, send it to: bhakti-list@yahoogroups.com Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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