I read a tweet about a writer’s love for buying expensive materials, because he believes every expensive thing is good. After buying an expensive toothbrush, he discovered it was made of boar hair.

 The tweet was met with a feeling of disgust and denunciation indicating the extent of resentment at the use of a brush whose bristles came from a pig.

 What these people of refined feelings did not know is that they, knowingly or unknowingly, use many materials that are made of hair, meat, fat, and bone and pig blood. They and we have no way to find out even if we are advanced industrially and satisfied economically.

 The problem is not that we are forced to use these products, but rather in the state of denial experienced by some, especially those who know the truth about the many forbidden substances that are used in the production of medicines and cosmetics, for example, yet they deny or deliberately ignore it.

 In a serious scientific research carried out by the Dutch Christien Meindertsma, she talks about what happens to the pig after it is slaughtered. She discovered that its meat, skin, hair, blood, bones and all its internal organs are used in the manufacture and production of hundreds of materials, and it is the only animal that is used completely to the last drop of blood, or a piece of skin or bone.

The researcher published a book that contains very strange pictures and explanations, unknown even to the livestock breeders and traders in pig products. For example, it was mentioned that pig products are used in the manufacture of steel molds which are used in the press and the manufacture of aluminum containers which are often used in food preservation.

Pig products are also included in almost everything we use in the bathroom, including soap, shampoo, conditioner, anti-wrinkle creams, moisturizing lotions, toothpastes, nail polish and other cosmetics. Pig ingredients are also used in all kinds of sweets, particularly cheesecake, chocolate and tiramisu.

 The extract of pig proteins is also mixed in the dough of many types of bread, and it is used in the manufacture of butter, especially low-fat. Its materials are also closely related to the manufacture of building light bricks, the Chinese porcelain industries, and the production of the best types of industrial paints and paint brushes, and of course toothbrushes, among other uses. It is also used in the manufacture of gum, beer and even wine.

Pig ingredients are also used in the production of hemoglobin, which is extracted from pig blood in the manufacture of cigarette filters. The funny thing is that the basic substance in the composition of collagen, which is used in all cosmetic surgeries for both women and even men, in our religious East, is extracted from pig products because the human body easily accepts it. Materials from pigs are used also in heart surgery.

It was also found that weapons factories use pig products in the manufacture of bullets, and its remains are used in the production of renewable energy, and in dozens of other uses, especially medicines and foods.

Where is the escape, tweeters? Will the use of collagen by women and men who have refined feelings, for example, refrain from using it today?

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By Ahmad alsarraf