pill poppin'

~Laughter is the best medicine.~

-Proverb

You may not even realize when you take your daily vitamins, pump echinacea when you're coming down with a cold, or nyquilling your way through a night, that you are ingesting large amounts of gelatin. Everyone knows that jello is packed full of it, but vitamins?  Yep, those softgels are wrapped in the same boiled bone substance that we all avoid.

So how do you avoid this? Check out http://www.vegetarianvitamin.com/ for several options of vegan vitamins.  Also, when given the choice between gelcaps and standard tablets, go for the basics.  Although all meds in the US are tested on animals before being put on the shelves, you can reduce the intake of gelatin by not buying those coated in gelatin.  And carnivore won't know the difference between two pill types, so you might as well change out the whole medicine cabinet!  Because, let's face it, last time I checked, animal skin and bones did not cure the common cold. Yuck.