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What is the difference between bone and meat and why isn’t gelatin vegetarian?

What is the difference between a vegetarian and a vegan? Vegetarians are people who do not eat or does not believe in eating meat, fish, fowl, or, in some cases, any food derived from animals, as eggs or cheese, but subsists on vegetables, fruits, nuts, grain, etc.
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Is bone collagen food? Do people eat bone? I always thought bone and meat are two completely different things. Meat is muscle and bone is an organ that makes up the skeleton of some animals.

Vegans don’t eat anything that casts a shadow! LOL Seriously though, they can’t eat anything that has come from an animal. This includes things like honey and coffee (since the coffee is transported by mules.) Many vegetarians eat cheese and eggs and drink milk. People don’t eat bone but I cook with bones all the time. It is a key ingredient in stock. Gelatin comes from collagen which is found in the connective tissue of animals. Meaning the tissue that connects the muscle to the bone. Bone collagen is food. It is because of its thickening properties that Jell-O comes together the way it does. Needless to say, vegans and vegetarians don’t eat Jell-O.

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