A Grumpy Vegan reader writes
Thought this might interest you. I’m just reading the brochure for the Canon EOS range. In it, they compare the merits of film versus digital photography and it finishes with this:
“If you are vegan, though, digital is a clear winner. The gelatin used in film emulsion is an animal product (it is made from boiled bones, skin and tendons, if you really want to know). Although there is a vegan alternative to gelatin (agar-agar, derived from seaweed), we don’t know of any company which has marketed a vegan photographic film. And now that digital photography has arrived, they probably never will.”
It’s interesting that they specify vegan rather than vegetarian as it applies to both…..and an interesting use in the argument over film v digital! I have to say I was not aware that film wasn’t vegetarian.
