Animal Ingredients A to Z

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Hey Everyone,

I found a pretty interesting online booklet today at www.thevegetariansite.com .

It's entitled, Animal Ingredients A to Z. I have not read it entirely, but what

I have read is interesting; for example they found that postage stamps and

envelopes are not made with animal products, but more than likely Lipton Tea and

Heinz Ketchup are. Many chewing gums contain glycerin/ glycerine derived from

animals, however Wrigley's uses a vegetable glycerin/glycerine (however it still

has white sugar in it). Anyway, it looks to be well researched and probably is

worth looking into. If anyone has a hard time reading the Word attachment I've

sent, go to www.thevegetariansite.com, click on recipes in the menu on the left

side of the page (check out the recipes too. They look yummy!), then scroll to

the bottom where you can click on Animal Ingredients A to Z.

 

One more thing - I have to comment on the DHA discussion one more time. My

children have been vegan from conception. I took vegan prenatal vitamins when I

was pregnant and maintained my vegan diet throughout. My perinatologist (high

risk pregnancy OB)never once suggested I take a DHA supplement or eat fish. My

children's pediatrician has never suggested this either. When the question was

raised here on the list, I was concerned at first because really, I never gave

DHA a second thought while pregnant, breastfeeding, or when my children went to

solid foods. None of the books on raising vegan children expressed it as a

concern. I read material from Dr. Klapper quite a bit while I was pregant and

after my kids were born and pretty much followed what he had to say. My

children are all on target, if not advanced for their age. Keep in mind, my

children were born at 27 weeks and 1 day (3 months and 1 week early), so it was

imperative for me to make sure they had appropriate and more than adequate

nutrition in order to get them to be at least on par with their peers. Three of

my children are gifted, two are above average. Maybe we're lucky as one of my

friends said the other day. I think rather than being lucky, we just eat the

right things, like the flax seeds and the flax seed oils, etc... as everyone has

been saying on this list.

 

God's Peace,

Gayle

" Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous. "