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Michele's avatar

Ummm, actually NOT vegan if any animal product in that vaccine.... Just sayin!

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Fetal cell lines are okay because they're human-derived ;-)

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Yehudit's avatar

Many vaccines contain green monkey kidney cells. That makes them non-vegan and treif for those interested.

https://uowiscorg.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/aborted-cells.pdf

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

Is it wrong that my first reaction was, "monkeys come in green?!"

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Birdingmom's avatar

It's actually a species - African green monkey. Also known as Vero cells. I used to work with that cell line in reagent production.

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

Ah okay. Yay I learned something today! #smrt

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Amanita's avatar

You left out the pus - "green monkey kidney pus cells"...

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Yehudit's avatar

Yes, however most articles do not include that. Thanks!!

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VeryVer's avatar

DonтАЩt they test on animals? Mice donтАЩt count I guess.

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cmpalmer75's avatar

They skipped the mice this time, so it's all good.

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VeryVer's avatar

Really? Well thatтАЩs good then. We can substitute in the kids!

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