intestines:
1. human consumption as a whole raw source: http://wholefoodcatalog.info/food/cattle,_offal%28small_intestine,_raw%29/ accessed february 13th 2013 6.04pm and cooked via various methods source: http://www.spicebaby.com/cook-faster/thats-not-beef-tripe-how-to-clean-meat-intestines-in-5-steps.html#&panel1-1 accessed february 13th 2013 6.08 pm
2. human consumption as casings for sausages and support structures for other stuffings. source: http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x6556e/X6556E03.htm accessed 13th February 4.55pm
3. human consumption as filler and a component of manufactured meat used in many processed foods. source: http://www.health.qld.gov.au/ph/documents/ehu/19399.pdf accessed february 13th 2013 6.16pm
4. animal consumption as pet food, particularly taurine, which extracted from the bile contained in the upper intestine. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taurine accessed 12th February 3.55pm
5. human consumption as a component in many sports and energy drinks, using taurine, which extracted from the bile contained in the upper intestine. for example this source: http://energydrink.redbull.com/content/red-bull-energy-drink#whatsinside accessed February 13th 2013 5.10pm
6. human consumption as a component in many infant formulas, using taurine. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8241636 accessed february 13th 2013 5.17pm
7. cosmetics as used in variously formulated products, using taurine which is claimed to have scar healing and anti-ageing properties. source: http://www.specialchem4cosmetics.com/services/articles.aspx?id=1340&page=Formulation accessed february 13th 2013 5.28pm
8. pharmaceuticals There is much discussion and research of use of taurine(again!) for both medicinal and supplementary pharmaceutical benefit of humans. In particular, many sites report the use of Taurine in drugs treating various epileptic and other seizure type illnesses. It is important to ask the drug company manufacturing a particular medicine for its clarification of ingredient. Note: Taurine can be synthetically manufactured. Sandoz Australia (by example) advised by telephone(february 12th 2013 10.30am), that their generically produced lamotrogine does not contain any animal or so derived products. This source exemplifies the current investigations into use of taurine in drugs treating many illnesses and diseases including various forms of cancer and of course, epilepsy: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Taurine/pharmacology%22[MeSH+Terms accessed February 13th 2013 5.47pm
9. sports equipment as ‘gut strings’ used for stringing tennis raquets. source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13670184 accessed february 13th 2013 5.57pm
10. musical instruments as ‘catgut’ used in the manufacture of the strings of various musical instruments. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catgut accessed february13th 2013 6.00pm
11. Book binding as the structure of ‘goldbeater’s skin’. A product made by using the intestines of various animals along with gold to form a binding parchment. source: http://cool.conservation-us.org/don//dt/dt1574.html accessed february 15th 2013 4.12pm. When cattle is employed, the calves intenstines are preferred.*
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