I know nothing about paintball, but I feel like there has to be vegan paintballs.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Fuck. I guess you're the one attending paintball with a Claymore.
Damn, you play for keeps
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Agar maybe, or alginate
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Hindu paintballers be like
Yeah wait, can we not make paintballs with...no animal parts?
Pretty sure it's jist the shell the paint is in that uses animal parts, and glycerine can be made from plants too. 🤷♂️
You can definitely get Glycerine from a Bush.
I hate living in this wheel where everyone steals.
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Yeah, that's kinda buried in the lead.
"Hey, just FYI, all your paintballs have pork fat in them" would be a more startling revelation.
I’m guessing the shell is made from gelatin or something? Which is made from animal bones. I can’t think of what else would be made from animal.
Well it does say gelatin in the text so
lol damn it does. I quickly skimmed it but my brain skipped that part.
Literally 1857
It was just medieval food safety to not eat pork in hot countries. They really need to update their software.
The origin of Abrahamic dietary laws is not certain. There is no obvious benefit in terms of hygiene, also not in ancient times (they long predate "medieval" times). Keep in mind that poultry carries a significant risk of salmonella poisoning.
It has been suggested that the origin might have simply been that pigs are viewed as unclean due to their own diet including carrion. Another speculated reason is that rulers might have wanted to promote poultry due to it being a more economical way of raising livestock.
i have a specific unusual food allergy. I always presumed abraham or ishmael or jacob or moses or one of them mythical folk had a food allergy against pigs and said "you know what, if i started a religion about not eating pigs maybe i wouldn't get the runs every time i went out to eat"
“Pork makes me shit so much that Moses could part it, that’s it! It’s banned”
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There was also the result of drawing a sharp line between the in-group and everyone else. If we have strict dietary laws but the people on the other side of the hill don’t share them, then it follows that they’re unspeakable barbarians, and that we should not trade or cooperate with them, let alone intermarry, and indeed, it’s acceptable to kill them and take their stuff, as surely such a barbarous people would do the same to us.
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Yeah. Religion is well-known for its acceptance of logic 😆
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You die.
You ascend to the pearly gates. Saint Peter stands there, or the Islamic equivalent, whatever, holding a book with your record. He flips through it.
“Let’s see. Beat his wife and kids, no problem. Stole massive amounts of money, okay. Generally racist, shouldn’t be an issue. Killed a man in cold blood. It was a Jew, so no great loss. Wait. You used pork paintballs? Are you fucking kidding me?”
A hole opens beneath you. You fall straight to hell.
"I can forgive the wifebeating, the drunkenness, the rape, but the pork paintballs‽ To the deepest pits with you! Insha'Allah, motherfucker!"
/j, obviously
Someone needs to explain to me why there’s ANY animal product in a paintball in the first place.
Paintballs are made of gelatin. Gelatin is often just collagen and collagen is basically connective tissue.
Fun fact! This is why E Ink displays use pig products!
Is there a Halal Kindle for the Islamic world?
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I only did paintball once, and that place didn't use gelatin balls, I think they were made of a thin bioplastic film (corn stuff) filled with ink
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Hope you aren't a gummy bear fan, cause I have news for you
You know they're not really made of bears, right?
You're gonna try and tell me that not a single bear ever fell into a vat of gelatine?
Nooooooo
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One man's religious stupidity is another man's business opportunity.
Paintbalals
And halal paint balls still hurt when getting shot.
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