Animal Ingredients List for your iPod

December 26, 2007

The list of animal ingredients in food and beauty products is extensive, overwhelming, and can seem like a foreign language at times.

For example: Civet is an unctuous secretion painfully scraped from a gland very near the genital organs of civet cats.  Used as a fixative in perfumes. Alternatives: labdanum oil (which comes from various rockrose shrubs) and other plants with a musky scent. (from HappyCow’s Animal Ingredients List A-Z.)

Ughhh. No need to despair. Of course, you can go old school and buy the book, Animal Ingredients A-Z, Third Edition. 

Better yet, try this electronic version (Save some trees!) that can be downloaded to your iPod. Check out Animal Ingredients List A-Z for iPod. It’s simple to download and includes short instructions for loading to your iPod. The site sources happycow.net and The Vegan Society for the information. Download it today and the next time you are at the supermarket reading food labels, you can whip out your iPod to check questionable ingredients. Very convenient. After all, it’s easy being vegan!

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6 comments on “Animal Ingredients List for your iPod”

  1. vegansofcolor on said:

    I love having this on my iPod!! I was able to figure out @ Trader Joe’s that their pizza dough might not be vegan, & put it back (it was the l-cysteine, which their customer service later told me was synthetic. Probably the rest of the vegan TJ-shopping world knew this already, but I didn’t!).

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  2. sarah beth on said:

    This is great but do you know if there’s any kind of list like this that is companies that do and don’t test on animals?

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  3. vegangirlnextdoor on said:

    Here are two web sites where you can search for companies who do and don’t test:

    http://www.navs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ain_pt_whois

    http://www.caringconsumer.com/

    The Caring Consumer site by PETA also lists charities that contribute to or participate in animal testing.

    Thanks for reading!
    Christine

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  4. VegansRule on said:

    I did not know about civet. Good god, what twisted minds humans have that they would even think to come up with a product like that.

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  5. VegansRule on said:

    I always look for the “Certified Vegan” logo. It’s a little heart with a ‘V’ in it. It makes shopping so much easier. I just wish all products would use it. What really pisses me off is when products will be 100% vegan and they don’t even bother to label it “Vegan” on the packaging much less get vegan certification. Vegan pride, gotta have it!

    Here’s a link for the “Certified Vegan” logo if anyone’s interested: http://www.vegan.org/campaigns/certification/index.html

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