Medicine!

I never cease to be surprised at how many commodities include animal ingredients. When I first became veggie I didn’t consider checking cosmetics and medicines! Even when I did think about medicine I thought if I avoided gelatine capsules I would be alright. I’m afraid it’s not quite so simple. You may like to check your medicines for the ingredients listed on
http://www.ivu.org/faq/maybe-animal-derived.html and
http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=72 .
After consulting the Vegetarian Society I now take Aspro Clear, or other dispersible pain killers, so as to avoid stearates etc. It’s a minefield!