Maxie P. Diddly wrote:
> On 10 Oct 2003 19:40:20 GMT, Goddess of Groundhogs
> > wrote:
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>>Maxie P. Diddly poked his/her head out of his hole and screamed
: at the world.
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>>>http://makeashorterlink.com/?V27666C26
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>>>Gilroy said San Diego was a vegan who was working on developing a
>>>marshmallow made without gelatin. Gelatin is made by boiling
>>>animal tissue in water.
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>>I'm not a vegan. Just a vegetarian. I use Knox unflavored gelatin
>>on my plants for an organic fertilizer. Now I see this.
>>*sigh*
>>And marshmallows are off the list, too, now.
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> I was under the impression that vegan marshmallows have already been
> made, and are on the way to market.

A few years ago, I checked out the ingredients of marshmallows, and had
a reply from a few of the manufactures as to where the gelatin comes
from. In canada and the united states, the gelatin comes from pig skin.
It is so refined from its natural state, that Rabbi's actually certify
it as kosher.

I also learned that in the shipping industry, there are Rabbi's that
actually deem transportation as safe for kosher foods (ie cargo bins
etc, never having touched certain other things).