A lot of what we use comes from animals.
Ahnimus
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It's true, and it's not just food.
Take Urea, for example, a preservative that is extracted from the bile and blood of animals, it's used in various cosmetics.
Urea's commercial uses also include:
As a raw material for the manufacture of plastics specifically, urea-formaldehyde resin.
As a raw material for the manufacture of various glues (urea-formaldehyde or urea-melamine-formaldehyde). The latter is waterproof and is used for marine plywood.
As a component of fertilizer and animal feed, providing a relatively cheap source of fixed nitrogen to promote growth.
As an alternative to rock salt in the deicing of roadways and runways. It does not promote metal corrosion to the extent that salt does.
As an additive ingredient in cigarettes, designed to enhance flavour.
Sometimes used as a browning agent in factory-produced pretzels.
As an ingredient in some hair conditioners, facial cleansers, bath oils and lotions.
It is also used as a reactant in some ready-to-use cold compresses for first-aid use, due to the endothermic reaction it creates when mixed with water.
Active ingredient for diesel engine exhaust treatment AdBlue and some other SCR systems.
Used, along with salts, as a cloud seeding agent to expedite the condensation of water in clouds, producing precipitation.
The ability of urea to form clathrates (also called host-guest complexes, inclusion compounds, and adducts) was used in the past to separate paraffins.
As a flame-proofing agent.
As a clean burning fuel for motor vehicles and stationary engines.
As a NOx-reducing reactant in combustion exhaust streams, especially diesel.
As an ingredient in many tooth whitening products.
How do you cope with that?
Take Urea, for example, a preservative that is extracted from the bile and blood of animals, it's used in various cosmetics.
Urea's commercial uses also include:
As a raw material for the manufacture of plastics specifically, urea-formaldehyde resin.
As a raw material for the manufacture of various glues (urea-formaldehyde or urea-melamine-formaldehyde). The latter is waterproof and is used for marine plywood.
As a component of fertilizer and animal feed, providing a relatively cheap source of fixed nitrogen to promote growth.
As an alternative to rock salt in the deicing of roadways and runways. It does not promote metal corrosion to the extent that salt does.
As an additive ingredient in cigarettes, designed to enhance flavour.
Sometimes used as a browning agent in factory-produced pretzels.
As an ingredient in some hair conditioners, facial cleansers, bath oils and lotions.
It is also used as a reactant in some ready-to-use cold compresses for first-aid use, due to the endothermic reaction it creates when mixed with water.
Active ingredient for diesel engine exhaust treatment AdBlue and some other SCR systems.
Used, along with salts, as a cloud seeding agent to expedite the condensation of water in clouds, producing precipitation.
The ability of urea to form clathrates (also called host-guest complexes, inclusion compounds, and adducts) was used in the past to separate paraffins.
As a flame-proofing agent.
As a clean burning fuel for motor vehicles and stationary engines.
As a NOx-reducing reactant in combustion exhaust streams, especially diesel.
As an ingredient in many tooth whitening products.
How do you cope with that?
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and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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How many of the luxuries we enjoy today would become economically non-viable. Would we be able to even find substitutes for those products?
How would society cope with such a drastic change? If we were unable to produce cosmetics that require animal products, like perfumes, lotions, etc...
Do people that argue in favor of banning animal food products, realize what is in the skin cream they use?
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Urea is a nitrogen-containing chemical product which is produced on a scale of some 100,000,000 tonnes per year worldwide.
Urea is produced commercially from synthetic ammonia and carbon dioxide. Urea can be produced as prills, granules, flakes, pellets, crystals and solutions.
It turns out some dude found a way of making organic urea from non-organic components. Quite the discovery actually. But this doesn't change the fact that animal parts are used in a wide vareity of non-food commercial products.
Ha, so that's why people smoke so much when they are drinking!
Can you buy organic cigarettes in Canada?
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I can't even buy Native cigarettes, lol.
To answer your question, I don't know. I've never heard of them.
It's all fermaldehyde and cyanide as far as I know.
They're free-basing nicotine
http://www.biopsychiatry.com/nicotine/freebase-nicotine.html
http://www.ohsu.edu/news/2003/071803smoke.html
Ammonia and urea
The amount of freebase nicotine in cigarette smoke increases as the alkalinity, or pH, increases. This factor can be influenced by the use of certain additives. "It is likely that ingredients such as ammonia and urea account for this addiction-enhancing effect. But you can also adjust the chemistry of the smoke by adjusting the blend.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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I found out... the big organic brand so far is Natural American Spirit. Supposed be to available at various smoke shops throughout Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_American_Spirit
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over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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but yes; animals are a part of our lives that cannot be removed.
Oh man, I don't know if I trust that anymore than regular brands.
Yea, I was trying to hit on something that doesn't get a lot of attention. You are right the use of animal products in medicine is wide as well.
Perhaps sometime in the future we will find non-organic substitutes for everything. Then, if we no longer consume animal food products. What will happen to the animals? We will no longer have use for animal farms and hence they will not exist in North America. All the animals of N. America will be found only in Zoos. Or so I believe.
Just quickly looking at the list above I can tell you that alternatives exist for almost every product; products made without dead animals.
It's old news that many companies continue to use animal products unnecessarily out of pure laziness. They've done it this way for a long time, have business relationships with the rendering plants, etc etc.
When it comes to body and facial products I'm amazed that people would want to rub bile or animal fat on themselves.
Plus some of these are just so unnecessary: adding bile and blood to cigarattes to enhance flavour??? Mmmmm, pretzels with urine flavoring...yum.
Am I hallucinating ??? Are you actually suggesting that an "organic" cigarette might be "safer" ?????
I really feel like I am hallucinating !!!!
I have no problem with animal products. My canines and pre-molars re-assure me.
Compare your teeth with a wolf, bear, lion, cheetah...etc. Then let me know how you feel.
While your at it compare your digestive track with those same animals. Some pretty tell-tale differences.
Oh yeah, and your ability to survive without meat and recognize the suffering of others. Hmmmm......
Dear, oh, dear, they are carnivores, I'm an omnivore. Now, here's a test, compare your teeth to a herbivore like a cow or a horse, and tell me how you went. Oh, and compare your digestive tract to a herbivore at the same time.
I'll show you plenty of women who are not doing real well from the iron point of view due to a lack of red meat in their diet too.
Choose to eat animal products or not, fine by me, but don't make yourself out to be "right, or morally superior.
My dog can survive without meat too, but doesn't change the fact that she is a carnivore by nature. Damn soy makes her fart though !!
It would be free of all pesticides and it would also be fertilized by natural organic methods not with with chemical fertilizers.
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A dash of Paprika?
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Of course, if they're killing animals simply to make paint or something, that's wrong.
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Where are the frost giants Ive begged for protection?
I'm freezing
Are you afraid, afraid to die
Don't be afraid, afraid to try
Put it in your butt and let it ferment.
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What are you talking about? Urea isn't extracted from animal products.
-C Addison