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September 17, 2009

Everything but the Oink

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What is surprising is the staggering array of non-food products that incorporate parts of the pig. Who knew it took pig fat to make automobile paint? Or that hemoglobin from pig blood is used in cigarette filters? Bone ash, Meindertsma found, went into train brakes, bone meal into the coating for aluminum molds, and gelatin from the pig’s skin and bones was deployed by an American weapons manufacturer to help distribute powder to bullets. -- Pig 05049 @ Design Observer

Posted by Vanderleun at September 17, 2009 12:44 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Heh.
Wait until CAIR finds out that the USA puts pig parts in bullets.

Posted by: Helene Bidwell at September 18, 2009 10:51 PM

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