Editing Gelatin (section)

==Religious considerations==
The consumption of gelatin from particular animals may be forbidden by religious rules or cultural taboos.

Islamic [[halal]] and Jewish [[kosher]] customs generally require gelatin from sources other than pigs, such as cattle that have been slaughtered according to religious regulations (halal or kosher), or fish (that Jews and Muslims are allowed to consume).<ref name=WHO/>

On the other hand, some [[Islam]]ic jurists have argued that the chemical treatment "purifies" the gelatin enough to always be halal, an argument most common in the field of medicine.<ref name=WHO>{{cite web |url=http://www.immunize.org/concerns/porcine.pdf |title=Form letter EDB.7/3 P6/61/3 |publisher=World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean |date=2001-07-17 |author=Gezairy HA |access-date=2009-05-12 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212400/http://www.immunize.org/concerns/porcine.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

It has similarly been argued that gelatin in medicine is permissible in Judaism, as it is not used as food.<ref name="Smith2015">{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=MJ |date=November 2015 |title=Promoting Vaccine Confidence |journal=Infectious Disease Clinics of North America |type=Review |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=759–769 |doi=10.1016/j.idc.2015.07.004 |pmid=26337737}}</ref> According to ''The [[Jew]]ish Dietary Laws'', the book of kosher guidelines published by the [[Rabbinical Assembly]], the organization of [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative Jewish]] rabbis, all gelatin is kosher and [[pareve]] because the chemical transformation undergone in the manufacturing process renders it a different physical and chemical substance.<ref>{{cite book |author=Samuel H. Dresner |author2=Seymour Siegel |author3=David M. Pollock |title=The Jewish Dietary Laws |year=1982 |publisher=The Rabbinical Assembly |isbn=978-0-8381-2105-4 |pages=97–98}}</ref>

[[Buddhist]], [[Hindu]], and [[Jainism|Jain]] customs may require gelatin alternatives from sources other than animals, as many Hindus, almost all Jains and some Buddhists are vegetarian.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Schmidt |first1=Arno |last2=Fieldhouse |first2=Paul |title=The World Religions Cookbook |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2007 |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QrHPXSP1z-AC&pg=PA99 |isbn=978-0-313-33504-4|via=Googlebooks}}</ref>