Do most vegitarians, not vegans, consider gelatin bad?!
Do most vegitarians, not vegans, consider gelatin bad?
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It isn't vegetarian.
I think most vegetarians here do avoid it, or at least attempt to, but -- in 'real life,' it's rare that I meet one who scrupulously avoids it.
Very rare.
If I buy a Jell-O type thing, it's a gelatin-free jelly dessert, but I don't abstain from taking gelatin capsules or anything like that. I think of it as more along the lines of a chemical additive than a meat derivative, to be honest -- it's just so far removed from the original thing. See also the debate on gelatin and its kosher status...
Similarly, I don't know many vegetarians who avoid drinking booze that's been processed with bone char or isinglass. Or things coloured with cochineal.
That's not to say that those things are 'vegetarian' by most vegetarian standards, just that most vegetarians are at least somewhat relaxed about it.
Which does make some sense given how difficult it would be to try to avoid gelatin when in need of medication; avoiding it in that circumstances would be, in my opinion, silly.
I'm not a vegetarian, and I consider gelatin bad. It's made from the hooves and hides of slaughtered animals. It's processed using corrosive chemicals. How GOOD can it be?
One vegetarian can't speak for "most" vegetarians.
However, gelatin would not be considered vegetarian because of its source (tendons, hooves, & bones). Whether or not a particular vegetarian chooses to eat it, is up to them.
yes
yes i luv it.
I'm a vegetarian, and I won't eat it ever since I found out what it was... and it wasn't that good to begin with anyway...
Yes I do.
Granted gelatin isn't meat, but keep in mind an animal still has to be killed (unlike cheese or milk). I am a vegan, but I don't see it all that much different than meat.
Yes most vegetarians do.
Look at it like this.
How do they make beef broth for soup?
Aside from seasonings they cook chunks of bone and fat in water.
To make geletain they boil pig ligaments and cow and pig hoofs in water.
Kosher Geletain is made from fish usually, so pectraiains will eat kosher geletain but a vegetarian wouldn't eat beef broth and they wouldn't eat geletain.
Yes.
I ate it for a couple of years simply because I didn't know any better. I thought cutting animals (I could readily see as animals) was enough.
I found out later that there were several products that were essentially *code* for dead animal. I was pretty annoyed. I think manufactures should have to state exactly what is in their food.
I know Hostess (sp?) now specifically states that its mono&diglicerides are from pigs... they used to say "vegetable or animal sources."
Yes... I try to avoid it completely...
However, if for some reason I would become ill or whatnot, I would not refuse medication based on gelatin in the capsules... which is where I find it occuring most....
Vegetarians do not use gelatin. It's a by-product of a dead animal.