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baking powder and bones
My can of baking powder lists Calcium Phosphate as an ingredient
and someone told me that it is a slaughterhouse byproduct derived from animal bones. This is troubling to a vegetarian. Is it true? Are there animal-free sources for baking powder? |
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From guano, ie bird droppings, therefore from a bird which is an animal and
not a plant. If you want untainted phosphate you may have to make it from elemental phosphorus. "Christopher Green" wrote in message om... (Keith Michaels) wrote in message ... My can of baking powder lists Calcium Phosphate as an ingredient and someone told me that it is a slaughterhouse byproduct derived from animal bones. This is troubling to a vegetarian. Is it true? Are there animal-free sources for baking powder? Set your mind at rest. Most calcium phosphate in the food and animal feed trade is produced from phosphate rock, not bone meal. -- Chris Green |
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"Peter Jason" writes: | From guano, ie bird droppings, therefore from a bird which is an animal and | not a plant. | If you want untainted phosphate you may have to make it from elemental | phosphorus. | | "Christopher Green" wrote in message | om... | (Keith Michaels) wrote in message | ... | My can of baking powder lists Calcium Phosphate as an ingredient | and someone told me that it is a slaughterhouse byproduct | derived from animal bones. This is troubling to a vegetarian. | Is it true? Are there animal-free sources for baking powder? | | Set your mind at rest. Most calcium phosphate in the food and animal | feed trade is produced from phosphate rock, not bone meal. | | -- | Chris Green What is the connection between mineral phosphate and guano? It may not matter to vegetarianism, as I know all materials of the earth cycle through animals and plants at some level, just curious.. |
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Most calcium phosphate in the food and animal feed trade is produced from
phosphate rock, not bone meal. Yes, but the phosphate rock is made from the skeletons of millions of prehistoric animals. What is a vegetarian to do? Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train." Robert Lowell (1917-1977) |
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"Iris Cohen" wrote in message ... Most calcium phosphate in the food and animal feed trade is produced from phosphate rock, not bone meal. Yes, but the phosphate rock is made from the skeletons of millions of prehistoric animals. What is a vegetarian to do? Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train." Robert Lowell (1917-1977) Perhaps they should go back to their carers...? |
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