Important 'Surprising Facts' For 'orthodox Vegetarians'

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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.