It is used in food, pharmaceuticals, photography, and cosmetics. The worldwide production … of gelatin is about 330,000 tons per year, about 660 million pounds. Sweeteners, flavourings, and colourings are added in the preparation….
#Gelatin powder made of skin
By now the cow’s skin and bones have been transformed into a translucent, colourless, brittle, flavourless solid substance called gelatin.Ĭommercially manufactured gelatin is packaged in ¼-ounce envelopes of desiccated granules, paper-thin sheets, known as leaves and meltable blocks. The gelatin is then filtered, evaporated, dried, and ground to separate the water from the gelatin solution and then shipped off to different companies. (In order to confuse buyers into thinking they are eating the vegetarian alternative, many food products put type-B gelatin on their ingredients list.) This is washed in water and then cooked till it becomes a white goo or gel. The gelatin obtained from acid-treated raw material has been called type-A gelatin, and the gelatin obtained from alkali-treated raw material is referred to as type-B gelatin. Acids and alkalines such as caustic lime or sodium carbonate are used.
The stench from the factory can be smelt for miles.Īfter the hides are ripe they are put into vats of acid that disintegrates the cow hairs, skin, and cartilage. The skins are left to putrefy, or “cure”, for about a month in vats of lime. A gelatin factory has cow skins piled to the ceiling. The bones and tissues are loaded into chopping machines that cut the parts into small pieces. There are no inspection systems in India, so you can rule this out. When the animal parts arrive at the food processing plant, they are supposed to be inspected for quality and the rotten parts discarded. Gelatin processing plants are usually located near slaughterhouses, and often the owners of gelatin factories have their own slaughterhouses where animals are killed just for their skin and bones.
Animal bones, skins, and tissues are obtained from slaughter houses. Gelatin is made from decaying animal hides, boiled crushed bones, and the connective tissues of cattle and pigs. You do not even see it, so you have no idea how it is made. How many times a day do you eat a cow or a pig? Every time you eat gelatin. Gandhi is a member of the Indian parliament and the founder of People for Animals, the largest animal-welfare organization in India. Our thanks to Maneka Gandhi for permission to republish this post, which originally appeared on the Web site of People for Animals on May 11, 2012.
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