Veganism question?

Question

What are common products made/processed with animal parts that the avergae person may not realize? For example, I've heard that animal fat is used in the manufacture of computer chips. Is that true? Anything else like that?

Answer 1

There are probably lots of other obscure / widely unknown uses of animal products but these are the ones I currently know of:

- Wine, cider and beer are often cleared or fined with gelatin, isinglass, shellfish chitin, albumen or casein. Most spirits are okay.
- Washing powder often contains animal fat.
- Photographic film is made with gelatin.
- Toothpaste often has glycerine in it.
- Glues can use bones, hooves and skins.
- Lots of toiletries, perfumes and cosmetics contain or are made with animal products, including beeswax, lanolin, shellac, musk, tallow, gelatin (or "hydrolyzed collagen"), keratin, castoreum and chitin. Many are also tested on animals.
- Household paint often contains shellac.
- Bone char is used in the production of some sugars.
- Crude oil is refined with bones to make Vaseline.
- Fertilizers often contain bone and other animal products.
- Dissolvable surgical thread is produced using chitin (which may or may not be shell-sourced).
- Match heads and sandpaper use gelatin as a binder.
- Glossy papers are often produced using gelatin or casein.
- Plastics are often produced using casein.
- Steel is rolled / shaped using tallow as a lubricant.
- Vitamin D3 is often produced from lanolin.

I have not heard of the use of animal fat in computer chip manufacture in particular but I think it is very likely.

Answer 2

Science has invented the "neuro chip" to help people with diseases. But I do not know of computer chips made with animal fat.

There are SO many things that people don't realized.

Such as a lot of grocerystore type black teas are colored with pig's blood. Lipton says they don't use blood in their "natural coloring" but refuses to state what their "natural flavoring" consists of.

Tetley is fine.

Cetyl alcohol is in many personal care products. Cetyl alcohol is derived from whales and dolphins. People who refuse to buy tuna because tuna fishing kills dolphins, or go to Marine World because it exploits whales don't read the bottle of skin cream and make the same connection.

Women don't realize the pill is refined horse urine. The ever popular "melatonin" tablet comes from the cow pituitary.

I could really be here all day.

Answer 3

Gelatin is a common ingredient in many types of foods. Also bottled salad dressings (even ones just labeled plain "Italian") and sauces sometimes contain anchovies. Worcestershire sauce and Caesar salad dressing are two examples of dressings with anchovies. Canned soups are often made with beef or chicken stock.

Answer 4

Carmine is one of them. Most people don't know that it's crushed up bugs.

I got a bottle of grapefruit juice once for free, then looked at the ingredients and it listed carmine. Eww. I was definitely not going to drink something that I knew had crushed up bugs added to it.

Answer 5

I always thought this was interesting, regular Oreos contain gelatin but Doubl Stuf Oreos do not.

Answer 6

Gelatin! That crap is in EVERYTHING! Most yogurts, marshmallows, some ice creams, and lots of candies. Who'd have thought boiled skin & bones would have so many uses. YUK!!!!

Answer 7

lecithin is a pretty common substance that many foods have to bind separate ingredients, and is made from eggs. however, soy lecithin is ok, that was just one i learned recently, but there are many extended lists available

Answer 8

Sour mix you get in a margarita in just about any bar has egg whites in it...

here are a few other lists
http://www.vnv.org.au/AnimalProducts.htm
http://www.vnv.org.au/FoodAdditives.htm