Monday, 15 September 2008

Vegetarians and Gelatin

Vegetarians have had an uneasy truce with Gelatin-based products since the public's discovery that it was produced through the stirring of the hot jelly liquid with a live horse's hoof. This would occasionally lead to small horse-meat granules being left behind in the mixture.

Combined with the frequent mistreatment of the stirring animals (fresh jellymixture uses hoof-scalding temperatures of water), this led to the inclusion of Gelatin on the Official Vegetarian Non-Eatable List.

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