May 07, 2011
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Actually, burning animal bones wouldn't result in charcoal.
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Ha! Funny if true. I have been pseudo-gloating as my brother-in-law recently went back to a meat-and-veg diet after about 8 years of being vegan. Actually I couldn't care less but we did entertain ourselves by cutting his tofu or vegan patties into drumstick/lambchop shapes when he came for dinner.
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Well, Ed, I was in total agreement - charcoal comes from wood, and bone ash is white. Until I read about "bone black" (bones burned in a low oxygen atmosphere) and saw that "charcoal is ... from animal and vegetation substances". (And, you know, the wikis never lie!) So India ink used in pen and ink sketches could contain animal carbon. But so does the air that vegans breathe every day. (errr... and the plants we eat too - there's some animal and even human carbon in there too. Especially on Ilkley Moor). But the question of whether bone ash is ever used in tattoo inks is left for someone else to google.
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Apart from whether bone black use used in tattoo ink, the only reason I can come up with as to why some idiot would get their tongue tattooed with their dietary preference is if they were in a coma, and the medic opened their mouth to check, and ensure they received only vegetable-origin blood transfusions.
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Go ahead and spit that one out, buddy!
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I always say I only LOOK strong because my muscles are shaped out of tofu.
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vegetable-origin blood transfusions. That's spectacularly tasteless, but I suppose if organ donation is vegan then why not.