The Vegan Thread

It’s a bloody mine field this vegan stuff.

Met a geezer, through work, back in the earlt '90s, who had made a career working for Leiner Gelatin in South Wales, flying out to buy huge piles of beef bones from India, to be processed into gelatin. Thier main (/most profitable) market was supplying camera film companies.
Met another geezer, in the early '00s, who had a business exporting unneeded industrial plant from the UK.
You've guessed it; the worst smelling equipment he ever dealt with was from the closed Leiner Gelatin plant in South Wales.

Good read for the analog photographers on the ADOX website - May I use film if I am a Vegan?

I read that a while ago and disagreed with it. So some people did research for 20 years in the fifties and sixties and failed--that doesn't mean it's going to remain that way forever. Science and technology move on. The author's claim that 'no animals are killed especially for making gelatin(e)' is also rather irrelevant. A large point of being vegan is precisely not to accept any of the further profit-enhancing by-products of the animal corpse industry.

A much stronger argument would be that since the physical film industry has shrunk to be so small, nobody is going to invest in further research but is instead going to continue using existing technology.

And 'human kettle raising'? What the hell is that? :)