Plastic bags, cosmetics, fabric softeners, toothpaste ... These and other products we use daily are more often made with materials and substances of animal origin. So let's see how to recognize them to avoid them.
The best way to save the animals is not just manifest in them, or eating only vegetables but also to beware of products that are used
more or less, we declare all animal lovers. If this is really not enough, however, become vegetarian or better still vegan. The best way to save the animals is not just manifest in them, or eating only vegetables but also to pay attention to the products you use. Usually
we think that only cosmetic and not much else comes from animals or from tests done on them, but there are some common objects with which we all have to do every day, who come from parts of animals, sometimes for all brands , others only by choice of some companies.
L ' Ontario Farm Animal Council says that, on average, uses 98% of an animal. Of that 98%, about 55% is used for food and the remaining 45% for non-food products.
Let's see what they are:
1. Plastic bags . Not only is there the oil train these terrible products, which thankfully are vanishing from our homes, but also animal fats are used as additives to "improve the material properties and / or to assist in the processing of polymers before," says the site Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News . The Tyson Foods is experimenting with plastic bags and stickers from the keratin protein found in chicken feathers, and the project is also to use it for disposable diapers and hospital gowns.
2. tires for cars and bicycles. Stearic acid helps the rubber tire to maintain the stable form despite the friction. And this acid has, in most cases, animal origins, although it can also be obtained from plants.
Colgate said not to use animals in their products, then visit the website of a company before buying the product
3. Glue for musical instruments. The animal glue (obtained from bone tissue and cognitive boiled) is apparently the best adhesive for the attachment of wooden musical instruments, like violins and pianos. Although sometimes used other synthetic glues, animal glue is readily available and widely used for corrections of the furniture and woodworking.
4. Biofuels . Sugarcane and corn are the raw materials that come to mind at first when we think of biofuels, but in recent years the use of animal fats (beef and chicken) is entered in the production of biodiesel.
5. Fireworks . Not only polluting, but some are made with the same component used in the tire sector, stearic acid, used to prevent oxidation of metals.
6. Softeners . Not everyone, but especially the Downy fabric softener (which in Italy is advertised as the Lenor ) contains ammonium chloride from dimethyl dihydrogen tallow that comes from cattle, sheep and horses.
7. Shampoo & Conditioner . How many cosmetic products, some shampoo and conditioner have ingredients of animal origin. According to PETA, there are more than 20 components from animals which might be in your shampoo and conditioner. When you read 'Panthenol', 'Amino Acids', or 'Vitamin B' in a bottle (just to name a few), it may be that they are animal or vegetable but there is no distinction on the label. Some companies have also removed the word 'animal' by some ingredients to avoid losing customers.
8. Toothpaste. Glycerin is found in animal and vegetable fats, which have a chemical composition containing from 7% to 13% glycerol. When separated, is used in a wide range of products, including toothpaste. Here too it is difficult to distinguish the source. There Vegan toothpaste (fitocose Lavera)
9. Sugar . Apparently it is one of the most plant that exist. Yet purified from the ashes from the bones of animals are used in filters to refine the sugar of some brands. Again, to be sure, visit the websites of the companies or sites specialized vegan.
Article from Ecologiae.com
The photo of the note certifies that products are free of animal ingredients.
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