Geleten - to eat or not to eat?

I try to stay far far away from it... even if I do have to miss out on snakes for the rest of my life... but that's a big enough sacrifice IMO.

I'd rather keep half my foot (or let anyone else keep theirs) than eat a bag of snakes.

There's heaps of lollies without gelatin like Skittles (last time I checked) and some starburst lollies I'm pretty sure don't have any.

Once you know what it is, it's pretty gross to think about ingesting it. I don't eat it, I don't miss it either, there are plenty of lollies and crap like that which are gelatin-free which get me by on any sugar fix I need!

i think the whole idea of geleten is just yuck haha. people are desgusting, who was the first person to think, hey lets grind up some bones, liquify them and eat it!
sounds yum to me s:
at the same time I don't think people should be that strict with there diet. You cant avoid the fact that animals are in everything! I think we should try our best to exclude whatever we animals can from our diet, but if something has like 0.1 of a percent of some kinda fish or something, I wouldn't freak.
but yeah, i try to avoid geleten mostly, but i'm pretty sure it would of been in something i've eaten since becoming a vegetarian, regretfully ):

I think you're right, Kaytee. The stuff is really hard to avoid, particularly when you start getting down into micro-ingredients

If there were more vegetarians there would be less abundance of stupid, stupid animal ingredients like gelatin and other such things. These meat-industry by-products wouldn't exist and it would be too expensive to inject them into foods and other products... Instead, cruelty-free, non-animal sources would be used.

Ending the killing cycle by refusing to fund or consume animal products (and encouraging others to follow) is the most effective thing we as individuals can do to reduce the number of cruel animal ingredients that are used commercially. It has a domino effect.

I try to avoid anything that I know has any animal ingredients in it, but won't quiz a waiter with 20-questions as to the ingredients of a bread roll because I know it only makes being veg or vegan appear to be difficult and complicated -- which in the long run hurts animals rather than helping them.

I agree, staying away from it is probably the best option. I think personally if I'm not going to eat the animal itself, then why eat the leftovers?
Also, the idea of half a hoof sitting in my stomach doesn't sound too pleasant.

disgusting - never, nope

Even when I was vegetarian as soon as I found out what gelatin was I bailed on that. Ironically it was in a chemistry class and our teacher was teaching us the difference between jelly made with animal product gelatin and jelly made with vegetable stuff (it sets quicker because of its chemical nature).

It was really interesting...

No I wouldn't eat it. I always wonder how people found these things out.

'I might just throw these scraps into some water and see what happens... now I might use it to make jelly - marvelous'