I was eating some Coach Farm goat curd the other day. It is a creamy spread, great on crackers. The label read, "made without even a trace of animal rennet." So I was wondering what rennet is, and found this(at http://www.vegsoc.org/info/cheese.html)
"The usual source of rennet is the stomach of slaughtered newly-born calves.
Vegetarian cheeses are manufactured using rennet from either fungal or bacterial sources. Advances in genetic engineering processes means they may now also be made using chymosin produced by genetically altered micro-organisms."
Now, I have been eating more dairy lately than I used to, since I cut out meat. Hmmm.....
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