Animal Parts in your Food and Cosmetics
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What are you eating? Slaughter House Food

They Eat What? The Reality of Feed at Animal Factories
The Reality of Feed at Animal Factories. Many of the ingredients used in food animal feed these days are not the kind of food the animals are designed by nature to eat, including same species meat; diseased animals; feathers, hair, skin, hooves, and blood; manure and other animal waste; plastics; drugs and chemicals; and unhealthy amounts of grains.

What is in that anti-aging cream?
Did you know that slaughterhouse animal waste is added to our food, pet food, nutritional supplements and to our cosmetics? The following links are to Animal Products List Resources to help consumers avoid animal ingredients (where do cow brains go?) in food, cosmetics, and other products. You will be shocked at what is added to your food and cosmetics!

Botox is a diluted food poison used to temporarily paralyse muscles. 50,000 Botox injections were ordered in the UK last year

Collagen is a liquid made from the connective tissue of cows or pigs and is injected under the skin for cosmetic purposes

Is Your Lipstick Safe?
By Anuja Mendiratta, Ms. Magazine. Posted December 11, 2006.
Personal care and hygiene products from toothpaste to eyeshadow contain thousands of largely unregulated chemicals that could pose serious damage to your health.

Example: Gelatin. Gel.
Protein obtained by boiling skin, tendons, ligaments, and/or bones with water. From cows and pigs. Used in shampoos, face masks, and other cosmetics. Used as a thickener for fruit gelatins and puddings (e.g., "Jello"), Marshmallows, yogurt, frosted cereals.

Search for animal products such as Stearic Acid, Stearyl Alcohol – Stenol, Glycerides, Glycerin, Gelatin, Insinglass, Placenta, Potassium Caseinate, Rennet, Sodium Stearate, Urea, Uric Acid, Yogurt, Zinc Hydrolyzed Animal Protein. Check labels on your products - above could be in your food, pet food, and cosmetics, etc.

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Alcoholic Drinks - Are they Vegetarian?
"...It will come as a surprise to most people that many alcoholic beverages contain, or are produced using, animal products. For example, many wines (and beers) are clarified or "fined" by adding isinglass, a pure form of gelatine obtained from the bladders of fish."

Animal Products List
A good source of information in list format.

Animal Ingredients in food, cosmetics, and other products.
Lists ingredients alphabetically. Comprehensive resource for raising vegan children, including pregnancy, vegan recipes, expert advice, book reviews, product reviews, message board, and everyday vegan living.

Ban Urged on All Animal Protein for Cattle
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and DENISE GRADY, New York Times, Published: February 5, 2004

.... Decisions about what animals go into cattle feed are made by the Food and Drug Administration, which last week banned feeding cow blood, chicken waste and restaurant scraps to cattle, but continued with rendered hogs and chickens. Industry critics objected, saying hogs and chickens eat rendered cattle, so the disease could pass through.

Canadians Worry About Mad Cow In Vaccines & Cosmetics
Concern about anti-aging creams - Cosmetics are also an area of concern - especially expensive anti-aging creams imported from Europe. Many contain lightly-processed bovine brain and nerve tissue.

DailyVeg Glossary
Ingredients Details - Vegan/Vegetarian Unconsumable Ingredients - Useful Links.

GREAT VEGETARIAN & VEGAN FOOD PRODUCTS
Great Vegetarian & Vegan Food Products Product List:

Hidden Animal Products in Food and Cosmetics
A list of animal Ingredients, What it is and Its Use. Good source of information in list format.

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Leisure and Lifestyle Directory
The Vegetarian Society is a registered charity committed to promoting the health, environmental and animal welfare benefits of a vegetarian diet. Hotels, Guesthouses, B&Bs, Self-Catering, Shops, Cafés, Restaurants, Conference Centres

Mad Cow Quandary: Making Animal Feed
By DENISE GRADY, Published: February 6, 2004, New York Times
"Though consumers may imagine bucolic scenes of nursing calves and cows munching on grass or hay, much of American agriculture no longer works that way. For years, calves have been fed cow's blood instead of milk, and cattle feed has been allowed to contain composted wastes from chicken coops, including feathers, spilled feed and even feces."

Militant Vegetarian - an anti-meat Resource for anyone who is ready to end the oppression of the meat eaters

What is in your pet's food???
Food Pets Die From
From the book, "Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food." By Ann N. Martin. NewSage Press (1997). This book is on sale at Dr. Jeff's Homevet/Amazon.Com bookstore.

The Truth About Commercial Pet Food
by Tina Perry
Cow brains. Sheep guts. Chicken heads. Road kill. Rancid grain. These are a few of the so-called nutritionally balanced ingredients found in the commercial pet food served to companion animals every day.

Rendering
- What is rendering? Rendering, as defined by Webster's Dictionary, is "to process as for industrial use: to render livestock carcasses and to extract oil from fat, blubber, etc., by melting."

- In the United States, roughly 250 rendering plants located around the country process approximately 100 million pounds of "waste" or inedible parts of slaughtered animals such as bones, blood, hides, offal, feathers, as well as road kill, spoiled grocery meat, restaurant grease, and euthanized dogs, cats, and horses, every day.

A Look Inside a Rendering Plant
Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal. www.earthisland.org

Slaughterhouse Waste
Recycling of Dead Animals and Slaughterhouse Wastes
Huge mass killing in modern slaughterhouses create a big pile of carcasses. Rendering plants are developed to get rid of them and other stuff from various sources. Let's take a peak at them...

Try a www.google.com search for slaughterhouse waste

United States Nutritional Supplements Containing Cow Brains--Cause for Alarm
Supplements Raise Mad Cow Concerns
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, The Associated Press, February 05, 2001

Vegetarian Network Victoria
Vegetarian Network Victoria (VNV), established in 1998, is a volunteer-based, non-profit organisation in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is run by people who care about human health, animal welfare and the environment.

How Cow Body Parts are Used

Links - Information on How Cow Body Parts are Used .....
One cow, hundreds of uses
OregonLive.com, January 05, 2004

What are cow parts used for?"
HEAD:
Brain:
Uses of brain and spinal-cord material:
Headcheese and some processed meats.
Beef broth
Beef flavering and extract
Animal and pet food
Nutritional suppliments
Human food, laboratory use, veterinary medicines, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics.

Ears:
Rendering (meat and bone meal and tallow)

Eyes:
dissection in schools, laboratory use (retina)

Head and Cheek Meat:
Human food, pet food

Horns:
Gelatin, fire-extinguiisher foam, buttons, handles, animal feed, fertilizer

Lips:
Human food

Tongue:
Human food, pet food, animal feed

Tonsils:
Pet food

Trachea:
Pet food, pharmaceuticals (chondroitin)

MEAT:
Fat:
Human food (suet, lard, argarine), toothpaste, ointents, topically applied medicines and cosmetic products, shortening, chewing gum, adhesives for animal feeds, lubricants, soap, candles, glycerin

Red Meat:
Human food, pet food

Tail:
Human food

Tendons:
Pharmaceuticals (elastin)

ORGANS
Abomasum:
Human food, pharmaceuticals (pepsin), pet food, animal feed

Adrenal:
Pharmaceuticals (steroids), laboratory use

Bladder:
Animal food

Gall:
Pharmaceuticals, cleaning agent in leather manufacture, paint and dye manufacture

Gallstones:
Pharmaceuticals

Gut contents:
Fertilizer

Heart:
Human food, medical devices, pet food, laboratory use

Intestines, large:
Laboratory reagents, animal feed

Kidneys:
Human food, pet food

Liver:
Human food, pet food

Lungs:
Pet food, Pharmaceuticals (heparin and anticogulant), surfactant

Lymph nodes:
Human food, pet food

Esophagus:
Human food, pet food, animal feed

Omasum:
Human food, pet food

Pancreas:
Pharmaceuticals, human food as "sweetbread," together with the thymus (insulin)

ORGANS
Placenta:
Pharmaceuticals (Glycosamine), cosmetics

Reproductive organs:
Pharmaceuticals, pet food

Reticulum:
Human food (tripe), pet food, animal feed

Rumen:
Human food (tripe), pet food, animal feed

Skirt: (diaphragm):
Human food

Spleen:
Human food, pet food, Pharmaceuticals, cosmetics

Thymus:
Human food (as insweetbread") together with pancreas, cosmetics

Udder:
Human food, pet food, Pharmaceuticals

Umbilical:
Human food, pet food, Pharmaceuticals

Uterus:
Pharmaceuticals (glycosamine)

SKELETON
Bones - including the raw fat contained in the bones, which is obtained from processing them:

Tallow, gelatine, candles, glue, buttons, handles, bone meal, adhesives for animal feed, lubricants, pet food, soap, glycerine, pharmaceuticals, surgical implants.

Spinal cord:
Human food, laboratory use, veterinary medicines, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics.
Cholesterol; neural lipids
Used in:
- Headcheese and some processed meats.
- Beef broth
- Beef flavering and extract
- Animal and pet food
- Nutritional suppliments

BLOOD
Blood:
Human food, Pharmaceuticals (serum base for many vaccines), surgical implants, pet food, adhesives for animal feed, leather preparation, glue, fertilizer, fire-extinguisher foam, mordant

Leukocytes:
Growth factors

Plasma:
Fire-extinguisher foam, Pharmaceuticals

Red cells:
Pharmaceuticals

SKIN / HIDE
Skin / Hide:
Gelatin, Pharmaceuticals, collagen, leather, felt (from hair), fertilizer

FEET
Feet / Hooves:
Gelatine, human food, pet food, glue, buttons, handles, neatsfoot oil, lubricants, cow-heel jelly, bone meal, fire-extinguisher foam, fertilizer bile acids, bilirubin

FLUIDS
Bile:
Pharmaceuticals (!!!)

Nasal septum:

WASTE
Waste from the carcass:
Burial, landfill, incineration

Waste from other industries:
Burial, landfill, incineration, sewage.

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