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Do they still use horse parts for the glue that keeps the boxes shut?
by interestica 6y ago
Do they still use horse parts for the glue that keeps the boxes shut?
- brailsafe 6y agoI hope so, horses are terrifying.
- scythe 6y agoYou know, it's kind of funny. Horses might have a better argument than any other animal for being the natural predator of humans. Specifically, nomadic depredations on preindustrial societies comprised armies with a proportionally small number of humans and a large number of horses pillaging towns and cities full of horseless humans. In 13th-century Asia, the average horse probably had a better life than the average human. The same thing happened shortly after the horse was (re)introduced to North America in the sixteenth century; settled agricultural societies were quickly overrun by horse-riding nomads.
- masklinn 6y agoHopefully, what else are you going to do with hooves and bones otherwise, throw them away? That's wasteful! (in reality there's almost no chance, synthetic glues are way easier to manufacture and manage, outside of gelatin animal glues would near-only be used for restoration or specialty applications e.g. some lutherie and other speciality woodworking)
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago'Terra Preta'
- legerdemain 6y agoNo, but there are plenty of horse parts in red wine.
- worker767424 6y agoIt's more common in white wine.
- djrogers 6y agoNot sure where you're from, but at least for American-made wines that's not often the case, as there are many more common and/or cheaper sources for chitin, casein, gelatin, etc. (pig and cow, as well as egg based sources for example). Also, blood-based fining agents have been outlawed in the US and Europe since the mid 90s thanks to the mad-cow scare. Of course this conversation also ignores the fact that fining agents are removed from wine before bottling as part of their purpose - they bind with the crap you don't want in your wine. Typical store-bought wine will have no detectable amount of a fining agent in it.
- legerdemain 6y agoIt's contamination "by association." I don't think it's debatable that fewer people would drink wine with pleasure if I told them it was filtered through human bone char, even if I didn't include any in the bottle.