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From: swb@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Scott Brim)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: what else is hiding out there, as in bone china
Message-ID: <328@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 15:21:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 15:21:30 1986
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In article <1404@garfield.columbia.edu> dupuy@garfield.UUCP (Alex Dupuy) writes:
>
>A lot of shampoos also comntain what is called "Animal Protein", especially
>conditioning shampoos, etc.  I had been vegetarian for over a year without
>realizing this when a friend who is a somewhat more thoroughgoing vegetarian
>than I pointed this out to me.  I'm not sure exactly what the animal protein
>consists of - perhaps placental tissue? but figured it was something I could
>just as easily live without.

I believe this means keratin (as in hooves, horns, hair and gelatin).  Some
is absorbed into (or adsorbed onto!) the hair.
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