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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:28 pm
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For Calcium, I usually take Calcium Citrate. I live with my mother, and we went to the store to by more.
They had a "buy one, get one free" sign in one of the isle, and it was for Oyster Shell Calcium. I am at a bend here. I am vegetarian, and whether this is safe for me. The one other option of calcium under the buy one get one free had "gelatin" in it. I clearly steered away from it. The fresh debate about whether gelatin was vegetarian was too close to home with my carnivore mother. I wasn't quite sure what I thought about Oyster shell derived calcium, and in failing for finding an equal price substitute, I sheepishly kept my mouth shut.
The supplements are sitting on the kitchen table now. I looked at them, and went online. Tried Ask Jeeves and even Bing, but no one seemed to breach the topic. There were some "organic" companies saying it was vegetarian safe, but the actual web sites were kind of sketchy themselves. I am not sure what to believe.
I don't want this to be the gateway to new arguments to "why I am a hypocrite", and how "I should eat meat", etc., etc. So I figured that I should post it in here, and get a collective point of view.
What do you think? Is Oyster Shells (the shell only) powdered and made into little capsules vegetarian?
One Japanese study claimed that the body could absorb it better versus Calcium carbonate and Calcium Citrate. Body absorption is very important to me, but also not shooting myself in the foot with my vegetarianism.
Please, your ideas? Thoughts? Beliefs?
Thanks.
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:54 am
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:42 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:31 am
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:04 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:52 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:49 pm
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