![]() The animal parts, used commercially, are pig skin, cow hide, cattle bones, fish skin. Gelatin is a flavourless, colourless, gelling and thickening agent made by throwing animal skin, bones and connective tissues into an acid, or alkaline, bath and dissolving them. So, we are back to where we started, and I am unhappy. ![]() Then an order came that this shouldn't be done as it would have “political repercussions close to the elections” – meaning that some politician’s friend was in the gelatin industry. "It would make them expensive, vegetarian alternatives were not available," all not true. Then the gelatin industry started feeding the press, and their lobbyists got into the act. Presentations were made, issues were discussed and, finally, he agreed that capsules should be made vegetarian. The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) made a number of committees in this regard. ![]() Millions of people, like me, can’t eat medicines because the capsule is made of ground animal bone from cows and pigs. And now, we have gelatin.įor the past five years, I have been trying to get the government to make a law, asking for all medicine capsules to be vegetarian. One company has even started making yolks without chickens. New innovations are taking place on the food front that are exciting and potentially earth-saving: from clean meat - which is real meat made by multiplying cells, instead of using animals - to milk that is made in the same way.
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