Whether an ingredient has been derived from an animal is not always clear. Many companies remove the word "animal" from their ingredient labels in order to avoid putting off consumers. Animal ingredients are used not because they are better than vegetable-derived or synthetic ingredients but because they are cheaper. Today's slaughterhouses must dispose of the by-products of the slaughter of billions of animals every year and have found a profitable solution in selling them to food, cosmetics and medicine manufacturers. Animal ingredients come from every industry that uses animals: meat, dairy, egg, fishing, fur, wool as well as others such as the horse-racing which send unwanted animals to slaughter. The bodies of dogs, cats, donkeys wind up at rendering plants too along with cows and buffaloes. Manufacturing processes use animals as well: for example, in the production of some refined sugars, bone char is used to whiten the sugar; in some wines and beers, isinglass (from the swim bladders of fish) is used as a "clearing" agent.
Take vaccines for instance. The vaccine lobby grows stronger by the day. From smallpox and polio, it has gone to hepatitis, yellow fever, kala azar, pneumonia, rabies…this is a growing multi billion dollar industry that is dependant on a few bureaucrats and politicians in each country to give the orders. There is a strong debate on whether you should vaccinate at all. But I am not taking sides on it. However you should know the ingredients of what you inject in yourself. Most of the ingredients in vaccines are hazardous and toxic to our bodies, even in small quantities. Many contain live viruses. Trace of the mediums in which vaccines are cultured can be found in them as well, such as chicken eggs, monkey kidney cells and aborted human foetal tissue. Common ingredients in vaccines are animal parts such as gelatine (animal bones and tissue), serums (blood), guinea pig embryo cells, or residual proteins, chicken embryo and embryonic fluid and human diploid cells from aborted foetal tissue.
Vaccines and their Ingredients:
•Polio - DPT - Produced using washed sheep red blood cells - Medium: porcine (PIG) pancreatic hydrolsate of casein.
•Attenuvax Measles Virus Vaccine - Produced using hydrolized gelatin - Medium: chick embryo.
•DPT Diptheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Pertussis Vaccine - Produced using washed sheep red blood cells - Medium: porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolsate of casein.
•Hepatitis B - Produced using the Medium: yeast
•IPOL Inactivated Polio Vaccine - Produced using 3 types of polio virus - Medium: a continuous line of Monkey kidney cells.
•MMR Measles Mumps Rubella Live Virus Vaccine - Produced using hydrolized gelatine – Mediums: chick embryo, Human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).
•Orimune Poliovirus Vaccine Live Oral - Produced using 3 types of attenuated polioviruses, calf serum - Meduim: monkey kidney cell culture,
•Varivax Varicella Virus Vaccine Live (chicken pox Vaccine) - Produced using processed gelatin - Medium: Human Diploid Cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue).
Vaccines Grown In Aborted Foetal Cell Cultures:
•Chickenpox, VARIVAX
•Hepatitis A, VAQTA
•Polio (oral), Poliovac , Canada
•Polio, IMOVAX
•Rabies, Imovax: Pasteur Merieux
•Rubella, MERUVAX
Vaccines With Live Virus:
•Chickenpox, VARIVAX
•Measles, ATTENUVAX
•Measles and Mumps, M-M-Vax
•Measles, Mumps and Rubella, M-M-RII
•Measles and Rubella, M-R-VaxII
•Mumps, MUMPSVAX
•Rubella, MERUVAX
•Rubella and Mumps: BIAVAX
Vaccines With Animal Parts:
•Chickenpox, VARIVAX -- foetal bovine serum
•Diphtheria, Tetanus, accelular Pertusssis, Acel-Immune -- beef heart infusion
•Infanrix -- bovine extract
•Flu, FLUSHIELD -- chick embryos
•Measles, ATTENUVAX -- hydrolyzed gelatin
•Mumps, MuMPSVAX -- hydrolyzed gelatin
•Polio, IPOL -- calf serum, monkey kidney cells
•Polio (oral), ORIMUNE -- kidney cells, calf serum
•Rubella, MERUVAX -- hydrolyzed gelatin
•Rubella and Mumps, BIAVAX -- hydrolyzed gelatin
Vaccines Using Cattle Material - (blood, fetal calf serum, meat broth):
•Anthrax: *BioPort DPT Certiva
•DPT: Infanrix, diptheria, pertussis, tetanus
•Hep A: *Havrix, hepatitis A
•Hib *ActHIB, haemophilus influenza Type B
•Hib: *OmniHIB: haemophilus influenza Type B
•Polio IPOL: Aventis Pasteur
How many vaccines are necessary? How many are created for profits and the diseases greatly exaggerated in order to scare people into compliance. Bird Flu vaccines, SARS Vaccines.... these have proved to be fake. On the other hand, some vaccines have wiped out traditional diseases.
Maneka Gandhi
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