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[Guest guest]

> > everyone is

> > eating tons of sugar filtered through cow bones charcoal!

>

> Is that process still current?

 

Statements from H.H. Danavir Goswami

 

Sugar and Cows

 

Recently in Kansas City, the Rupanuga Vedic College (RVC) has shifted its

purchase of white sugar to beet sugar. It was quite simple. We contacted our

local supplier and indicated we wanted exclusively beet sugar. The two major

types of refined sugar produced in the United States are cane sugar and beet

sugar. Most cane sugar uses a filtering agent made from cow bones whereas

beet sugar does not.

 

Beet sugar refineries never use a bone char filter in processing because

this type of sugar does not require an extensive decolorizing procedure.

Beet sugar can be refined with a pressure lead filter and an ion exchange

system. Western Sugar Co. uses lime as a filter.

 

Cane sugar and beet sugar cost, look, and taste the same and are

nutritionally equivalent as well. The production and sale of each type of

sugar are approximately equal.

 

Some of the larger beet sugar manufacturers are:

 

Western Sugar Company, Baynard, Nebraska, (308) 586-1511 or Lovell, Wyoming,

(307) 548-2292; Imperial Sugar Corporation (Holly Sugar is beet sugar) Sugar

Land, Texas, (281) 491-9181; Michigan Sugar Company, Bay City, Michigan,

(517) 799-7300; Great Lakes Sugar Company, Freemont, Ohio, (419) 332-9931

 

I also confirmed this information by contacting several sugar manufacturers.

 

Much information provided above and all of that provided below was acquired

from Caroline Pyevich's article "Sugar and Other Sweeteners: Do They Contain

Animal Products?" (Vegetarian Journal: excerpts March/April, 1997)

 

Many cane refineries use bone char. Domino, the largest sugar manufacturer

in the U.S., uses bone char in the filtration process. The cane refineries

of Savannah Foods, the second largest sugar manufacturer, also use bone

char. California and Hawaiian Sugar employs bone char filters in addition to

granular carbon and ion exchange filters. All these companies use the bone

char in the refining process of brown sugar, powdered sugar (sugar mixed

with corn starch) and white sugar.

 

Almost all cane sugar refineries require the use of a specific filter to

decolorize the sugar and absorb inorganic material from it. This whitening

process occurs towards the end of the sugar refining procedure. The filter

may be either bone char, granulated carbon, or an ion exchange system. The

granular carbon has a wood or coal base, and the ion exchange does not

require the use of any animal products.

 

Bones from cows are the only type used to make bone char. According to the

Sugar Association and several large sugar producers, all of the cows have

died of natural causes and do not come from the U.S. meat industry. Bone

char cannot be produced or bought in the United States. Bone char is derived

from the bones of cattle from Afghanistan, Argentina, India, and Pakistan.

The sun-bleached bones are bought by Scottish, Brazilian, and Egyptian

marketers, who sell them to the U.S. sugar industry after the bones are

first used by the gelatin industry.

 

Bone is heated to an extremely high temperature, which results in a physical

change in the bone composition. The bone becomes pure carbon before it is

used in a refinery. Refined sugar does not contain any bone particles and is

therefore kosher certified. The bone char simply removes impurities from the

sugar, but does not become a part of the sugar.

 

Some cane refineries do not use bone char. Refined Sugar, producers of Jack

Frost Sugar, claim to use a granular carbon instead of bone char for

economic reasons. Florida Crystal sugar is a cane sugar that has not passed

through the bone. Although Florida Crystal sugar has a straw color, the

impurities have been removed

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 10/4/2006 8:01:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,

Ajamila.ACBSP (AT) pamho (DOT) net writes:

Turbinado sugar is a product which is made by separating raw cane sugar

crystals in a centrifuge and washing them with steam. According to Domino

Sugar, turbinado sugar does not pass through a bone char filter because its

brown color is desirable.

Dear Ajamila Prabhu

SO THIS SUGAR IS SAFE TO OFFER? That is what I use.Now I had a bit of an

argument with some devotees recently about the Candy canes, I am pretty sure

they

are made of the impure white sugar , and though they may have been offered in

the 70th to installed Deities and given as Mahaprasadam they are actually not

fit for offering??? They used to be a big item during Christmas marathons

along with books in US.Can you please clarifie this for us Ajamila Prabhu?

Your servant

Payonidhi das

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Now, you know the silkworm, the silkworm entangles itself in cobweb, and it

cannot get out. Perhaps most of you know. And those who are industrialists

in silk industry, they collect those cobwebs of silkworms and boil in the

water, and the worm dies, and then silk comes out.----Srila Prabhupada in a

lecture.

 

So what about silk which is considered pure for puja? It is got by killing

the silk worms?

 

This yajna is also known as panca-suna. Knowingly or unknowingly, everyone,

specifically the householder, is committing five kinds of sinful activities.

When we receive water from a water pitcher, we kill many germs that are in

it. Similarly, when we use a grinding machine or take foodstuffs, we kill

many germs. When sweeping the floor or igniting a fire, we kill many germs.

When we walk on the street we kill many ants and other insects. Consciously

or unconsciously, in all our different activities we are killing.

 

So? "As far as possible we avoid" as no one can completely avoid.

 

"Hare Krishna!" is the only answer in this age, as we cannot do this panca

yajna.

 

Your humble servant,

Bhadra Govinda Dasa.

[Guest guest]

> Now, you know the silkworm, the silkworm entangles itself in cobweb, and

> it cannot get out. Perhaps most of you know. And those who are

> industrialists in silk industry, they collect those cobwebs of silkworms

> and boil in the water, and the worm dies, and then silk comes

> out.----Srila Prabhupada in a lecture.

>

> So what about silk which is considered pure for puja? It is got by

> killing the silk worms?

 

There is also a type called "ahimsa silk", where they first allow the

silkworm to leave the cocoon. We have a friend here in Bhubaneswar, Bankim

Mishra Prabhu, who has developed a special process whereby he can make soft

ahimsa silk, something no one else has yet been able to accomplish.

 

Das, MD

[Guest guest]

ahimsa silk ki jaya

 

sounds like a good idea

[Guest guest]

> In a message dated 10/4/2006 8:01:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,

> Ajamila.ACBSP (AT) pamho (DOT) net writes:

> Turbinado sugar is a product which is made by separating raw cane sugar

> crystals in a centrifuge and washing them with steam. According to Domino

> Sugar, turbinado sugar does not pass through a bone char filter because

> its brown color is desirable.

> Dear Ajamila Prabhu

> SO THIS SUGAR IS SAFE TO OFFER? That is what I use.Now I had a bit of an

> argument with some devotees recently about the Candy canes, I am pretty

> sure they

> are made of the impure white sugar , and though they may have been offered

> in the 70th to installed Deities and given as Mahaprasadam they are

> actually not fit for offering??? They used to be a big item during

> Christmas marathons along with books in US.Can you please clarifie this

> for us Ajamila Prabhu?

> Your servant

> Payonidhi das

 

Purity is the force. Initially Srila Prabhupada allowed a lesser standard

but in his own words his programme was to tighten the screw, or raise the

standard. Surely we can raise the standard to at least not eating sugar that

is contaminated by slaughtered cows meat.