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Not what comes out, but what goes in. Sure, you might feel OK about following the two-second rule when you drop your Tofutti Cutie on the kitchen floor, but you won’t want to give these disgusting hidden animal ingredients the time of day:
- Casein: Whey’s cousin, casein is made from curdled milk. Yuck!
- Gelatin: Rhymes with ‘skeleton’. Coincidence? We think not. Gelatin is a protein made by boiling cows’ and pigs’ skin, tendons, ligaments and bones.
- Honey: Yeah, honey tastes sweet, but you’ll get a bad taste in your mouth when you learn how it’s ‘harvested’. One former beekeeper explained: ‘[T]ypically, beekeepers are gloved and netted to avoid stings (nearly every bee who stings will die due to her entrails being pulled from her body attached to her stinger). Then the hives are opened as quickly as possible and the bees are “smoked”. Smoke from a smouldering fire carried in a “smoker” is pumped into the hive and the bees are “calmed”. In spite of this, the combs are pulled quickly and many bees are crushed in the process. When a bee is hurt, she releases a chemical message that alerts and activates the hive members who proceed to attack the intruder – giving their lives in the process.’
- Lard: ‘Lard’ is such a gross word that it almost makes you wonder why they just don’t call it what it is: ‘Fat from pig abdomens’.
- Pepsin: If the thought of eating lard turns your stomach, stay away from pepsin, a clotting agent from pigs’ stomachs that’s used in some cheeses and vitamins.
- Rennet: Certain words just make you cringe, like ‘coagulate’, ‘congeal’ and ‘clot,’ which is what rennet, an enzyme taken from baby calves’ stomachs, is used for during cheese production.
- Stearic Acid: It may sound less gross than ‘lard’, but stearic acid, which often rears its ugly head in chocolate and vitamins, comes from a fatty substance taken from slaughtered pigs’ stomachs or from cows, sheep or dogs and cats who were euthanized in animal shelters. Still want to chew on that piece of Rover?
- Cetyl Palmitate: Check your head if you’re using margarine that contains cetyl palmitate, the fancy term for the waxy oil derived from dolphins or sperm whales’ heads. ‘I can’t believe it’s not … oh, wait … it is? Whale head wax?!’
- Urea comes from piss and other ‘bodily fluids’ and is used to ‘brown’ baked goods, like pretzels. Um, yeah. And the oven is for what?
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