If you want the little girl to eat the jello, don’t tell her that gelatin is made from horse hooves. #LFMF
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Gelatin isn’t made from horse hooves, it’s made from cow hooves. The idea that horses are being specifically killed to make glue (which isn’t made from animal parts at all anymore) and gelatin, when there are 96,000 cows with perfectly usable hooves killed every DAY in the US, is patently absurd. I don’t know if the little girl in question has the same emotional attachment to cows as she does to horses, but tell her that the gelatin comes from cows that have already died for meat. Not only might it help, it has the significant advantage of being true.
Maybe leave dead animals out of it completely?
That should go over even better…… LOL
Better take her out for steak dinner while you tell her. Don’t forget to tell her where dinner came from at the same time.
Actually, it’s made from HORSE JOINTS! Not hooves, not cows, horse joints.
It can also be made of chicken beaks and feet…
and yet it´s still delicious.
well y not give her cargeenan instead.
i thought it was cow hooves? xP
no duh?
that should be obvious. no offense, but that was pretty stupid. next time, lie.
Who is the little girl and why were you feeding her jello? Help! Pedobear is drugging kids!
That’s what I was wondering….
it’s made from pig bones.
Gelatin is most definitely made from bones.
Most gelatin these days comes from bones and skin.
Wow. I never thought I would really ever learn something on here… Hmm…
Gelatin is made from the collagen found in joint and knuckle bones of cows and pigs.
No skin, and definitely no hooves
Here in the UK it will tell you on the packaging if the gelatin is porcine or bovine.
according to TLC “The gelatin you eat in Jell-O comes from the collagen in cow or pig bones, hooves, and connective tissues.” this aired on a TV special they did about Jell-O.
I really hope this wasn’t posted by Bill Cosby. After all that money the Jello people gave you, Bill, you turn around and do THIS???
I was, up until now, blissfully unaware that jelly was made from things like that. Never eating jelly again.
Gelatin (an ingredient in Jell-O and marshmallows and gummy worms) is completely different from jelly. IIRC, jelly is completely vegetarian (maybe vegan as well).
My friend’s little girls know that jelly comes from bones, and they’re ok with it.
But then, they’re also ok with little lambs ending up on their plate, and the fact that rabbits and ducks are edible. And even possibly crocodile, if you really wanted to.
And what exactly is wrong with eating lambs, rabbits and ducks?
Why lie to the kid? If she doesn’t want to eat bones or hooves or connective tissue or whatever, shouldn’t that be her perogative?
I’m never eating gelatin again. TT_TT
Many desserts like marshmallows, cakes etc. contain gelatin or other animal products. McCain frozen chocolate cakes contain beef tallow.
I’ve been vegetarian for 10 years and still have to explain to people why I’m not eating Marshmallow Peeps or certain jellybeans from my easter basket. You can’t really explain ’cause there are usually children around, and I don’t think it’s my place to start that conversation. I just say “they’re not vegetarian”.
Sad & gross all at once.
damn, it was common knowledge to all children when i grew up in the 80′ies.
although we dont eat jello in denmark, but its in vine gums too, which is a stable in candy in denmark.
although i kinda figured it was an urban legend, when i got older, like the one about:
certain bakery cakes are made from sweeping the floor after shop closes
Not all jelly is made from gelatin. Haven’t you ever heard of OTHER gelling agents?! How do you get jelly just by cooking fruit? Maybe it’s because of the pectin which is mainly found in the skin?