Vegetarian foods - meat products

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Jai Srimannarayana!

 

Pranamams at the lotus feet of HH Shri Swamiji !

 

Adiyen,

 

I have recently come to know that some of the off-the-shelf

vegetarian food products being sold here in USA, like

breakfast cereal from Kelloggs (Corn/Wheat/Rice flakes ..),

Yogurt, Buttermilk from Dannon and also other manufacturers etc.

contain 'gelatin' which is derived from animal fat/hide/bones.

They use 'gelatin' to help texture of the product and it is usually

derived from beef or pork.

 

We check the "ingredients" list carefully everytime we

purchase any new type of food product, to make sure that

it is not containing any such animal products. This news

is unpalatable to me and I feel very bad. I also came to know

that it is not mandatory for any company as per FDA (Foods and

Drugs Administration) rules, to include an ingredient in the

list of ingredients on the container, if that particular

ingredient is very negligible (say 0.1% or so). That's how

we missed these items.

 

More revelation is - even in the process of manufacturing

most types of refined cane sugar, the product is passed

through bone-char filter (made from animal bones)

for absorbing the inorganic ingredients in the product.

 

I will be more careful hereafter in choosing the items and

urge fellow unsuspecting devotees also to keep a watch on

'hidden' ingredients/processes.

 

I pray at the Lotus Feet of Shri Swamiji and our beloved Lord

to give us more strength for observing 'sa:twik' food as His

prasa:dam hereafter, forgiving my n-zillionth mistake.

 

I also pray Shri Swamiji to enlighten us on how can we avoid

such 'a-satwik' foods (for eg: by switching to 'oraganic'

praparations etc.)

 

Da:so:ham,

Adiyen,

Ramanuja Dasaha

Murali Krishna Kalvapudi.

 

Jai Srimannarayana!