Pork drops
My brother is a vegetarian who is very conscious of what animal products are used to make everything. Once a week or so, he surprises me with a new thing he refuses to eat or use because it's made (or potentially made) with meat products that I didn't know had meat in it. Things like many brands of lip balm, some lotions, soaps, chewing gum, cereals, etc. My response is usually something like, "enjoy your chapped lips then, crazy guy," or "the tree out front still has some leaves you can eat, crazy guy." The common theme is that I often think he's crazy, because he thinks my cherry Blistex is made from cows. Also, he won't let his kids eat Jello, which is not only crazy, but it's un-American.
So yesterday, I go out and buy some of this stuff for my contacts:
I had previously used a different brand, so I pulled out the absurdly long instruction sheet to make sure there wasn't anything I needed to know before putting it on my contacts. Before the directions, I noticed this:
Say what? The protein remover for my contact lenses contains pork? Intrigued, I checked the list of ingredients to find out what other surprises might be in store:
My contact lens cleaner contains enzymes from a pig's pancreas? My first thought was, maybe that old brother of mine isn't all the way crazy. My second thought was, how fantastically versatile are pigs?
Comments
Rhonda said:
Yummy...pork-flavored contact lenses.
I can't say I am surprised by this. My friend KB used to be a vegetarian, and she clued me in to how many products have animal stuff in them. It's kind of gross if you let yourself think about it.
P.S. I'm first! Woohoo!
Syar said:
Doesn't do me too well to have versatile pigs. Muslims aren't allowed near pork or porcine products. Another sign I may never wear contacts? Who knows.
I remember once kids at school told me not to eat Pringles and Skittles cause they supposedly had un-halal (possibly pork-y) material in it. This was an utter sham, but it kept me well away from Pringles and Skittles for a few months, which is just WRONG!
Jon said:
Contraindications???? I think it's awesome that they used a word that they then had to dumb down for pretty much everyone else to understand. I would think that just as a basic cost analysis, they would go ahead and save the ink and just say, "Reasons not to use" or, "Please avoid if..."
As to the pigs versatility, it never ceases to amaze me where these "scientists" find the necessary ingredients to make effective and efficient products. Here's to that guy who knew way to much about pigs!
Nadia said:
Well hey, at least you know that if you ever run out of seasoning...
jazzy said:
but how did they taste?
Becky said:
when i dissected a fetal pig in the sixth grade, they made me wear goggles... if they had only known then what we know now...
elasticwaistbandlady said:
If you ever lose your eyedrops, you now know that they answer to the name of either 'Petunia' or 'Porky.'
lisa said:
i never knew that all of these products had pork or some kind of meet in it i jus found out yesterday that skittles and sstarbururst had pork in it
Carrot Jello said:
Mmmm, nothing like pork in your eyes. When I am pregnant, I have to inject porcine intestinal mucous into my belly.
cadiz12 said:
when we were at the hospital, one of the nurses (the "hot" one, to be exact) asked if we were muslim because Heparin (an anti-coagulant they use with the I.V. machines) has pork in it, too. i wonder what else there is that we don't even know about.
Cate said:
Spiderpig, Spiderpig...
Lia said:
Gross! Now I'll have to go check the ingredients on my lens solution; thanks. I use Alcon sometimes. Not that product, but still. Ew!