How We are being cheated - Please do read this article by Maneka Gandhi

[Rashmi Srivastava]

Some shocking facts about your food: (please also forward this message to your friends)

"It was an Indian who has gone to court in America and forced MacDonalds to tell the truth. For years MacDonalds had been telling lies saying that its chips were fried in vegetable oil. Now, we know that before frying in vegetable oil, they are soaked in beef tallow– probably the same practice is in India too as the material for soaking the chips comes from abroad." 

 

Many manufacturers cheat and give you hidden meat and animal bone/skin etc because it is cheaper for them. You eat or use the product because you think it is vegetarian. Many of these products do not have labels on them of the ingredients.

 

Many use the scientific name deliberately so that you cannot understand what it is. 

• Albumen: This is the white of egg and is commonly used on bread and confectionary. If you see a bun which has til (sesame) on it then it has been stuck there by brushing egg white which acts as a sticking agent. Calcium phosphate made with animal bones is sometimes used to improve the dough making properties of bread.
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• Ajinomoto:  Made from fish. Used as a sauce, used in Chinese food to give it that distinct "chinese" flavor.

• Cheese: Most foreign cheeses are made by using stomach acids obtained from slitting the stomachs of calves while alive. This acid is called rennet and is used to cuddle the milk to make it into cheese. Calf rennet is illegal in India where chemicals are used to make cheese. Kraft cheese, for instance is made with calf rennet.

• Chewing gum: Usually made of vegetable gum but may contain glycerine, gelatine, stearic acid and emulsifiers of animal origin. Check on the label.

• Chips:  Always fried in animal fat abroad at all fast food eateries. Packaged Indian crisps must specify that they are cooked in vegetable oils or assume that they are not. (Lays chips is flavored with artificial flavoring agents manufactured from Pig-fat, so is Maggi and most other noodles. )

• Chocolates: The most commonly used animal ingredients in chocolates are egg white, egg lecithin, shellac and gelatine. Nestle’s Kitkat is made of calf rennet. Turkish Delight, fruit rolls, toffees, marshmallows, jujubes, peppermints usually contain gelatine. Polo Mints contain beef. So do most Western sweets that come in via the Middle East. Smarties contain cochineal. - http://www.chocolateexpert.co.uk/vegetarian-and-vegan-chocolate.html

• Colas: May use ester gum as emulsifiers. Ester gum’s main ingredient is glycerol. Coca Cola admits to using glycerine.

•  Ice-cream: Unless specifically listed as vegetarian, the ice cream contains eggs and gelatine obtained by boiling cattle udders, noses and anuses. Amul and Baskin Robbins are vegetarian.

• Jam: Jam may contain gelatine

• Jelly: Jelly is always made of gelatine. In fact the word jelly is a short form of gelatine. A few companies make it from vegetable gum and mark it as vegetarian jelly. Look for the label.

• Varakh: (Silver decoration on sweets) - This is made by beating silver between fresh hot cow/buffalo intestines. Each piece of varakh contains specks of intestine - http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=486219461390099&set=a.232093383469376.69913.198757113469670&type=1&theater

• Riboflavin: This is used as a orange-yellow colouring agent. It is obtained from egg yolk or liver. It can also come from vegetables but that is expensive. Check with the manufacturer.

•  Worcester Sauce: It contains small fish called anchovies

 

What are these ingredients?

• Gelatine: Obtained by boiling animal bones, skin and tendons in water. The bones come from the slaughterhouses.

• Cochineal: Cochineal is a  red dye that come from crushing the dried bodies of scale insects

• Shellac: Shellac is the dead bodies of insects. One lac insects are killed and crushed for 333 grams of shellac. It is used in Cadbury Gems and Nutties.

• Glycerine/glycerol: Most glycerine is of animal origin. It can also be manufactured from petroleum. Manufacturers of end products never know the origin of glycerine so it is always assumed to be of animal origin.

• Stearic acid: Animal fat coming from tallow which is melted animal fat. Also used in soaps, candles, cosmetics.

Your choices as a consumer affect the lives and deaths of millions of animals. If you are conscious about the products you use, you will not only save animal lives, you will force manufacturers to use alternatives.  All these luxury foods could use non animal products if you protested with your pocket. Stop buying them and write to the manufacturer and distributer telling them why. 

―Maneka Gandhi

Please do forward this important message to your friends so that they may not be fooled any longer.

http://www.peopleforanimalsindia.org/articles-by-maneka-gandhi/692-hidden-ingredients-in-food.html

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Regards,
Rashmi

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