Thank you for the explicit details of how gelatin is made for consumption. I do occasionally eat some in some form and anyone who eats marshmallows eats it. But I thought it really showed how some people don't know that it is an animal product when I went to a vegetarian/vegan pot luck dinner and several participants brought some kind of dessert made with gelatin. Those who knew better kindly reminded them about the source, and ate their own agar-jelled desserts. Carol [Posted in FML issue 5144]