The document discusses various materials derived from animals and plants, highlighting the extensive use of elephant ivory, python skins, and tiger products in luxury items. It also outlines production processes for materials such as paper, natural rubber, and jute, emphasizing their agricultural origins. Additionally, it mentions the high volume of cow bones used in commercial sugar filtration.

1. THINGS ARE MADE UP OF?

2. Elephant ivory has been used in huge amounts to make billiards balls,
piano keys, identification chops and many other items for human
enjoyment.

3. Every year, at least 440,000 pythons are slaughtered in Indonesia,
Malaysia, and Vietnam—just to be made into shoes and
handbags!
Snakeskin Belts
Snakeskin head wrap
Snakeskin Fashion
Bags

4. Tiger Claws
Claws are most often inlayed in gold to make pendants for
necklaces. Local people believe tiger claws provide good luck
and protective powers to those who wear them.

5. Calfskin or plastic is pulled over the top of either of these drums

6. Tiger Bone
Tiger bone used as an anti-inflammatory drug to treat
rheumatism and arthritis, general weakness, headaches,
stiffness or paralysis in lower back and legs and
dysentery.

7. Sadly, the answer is cow bones. Thousands and thousands of
them. About 7,800 cows’ bones the Vegetarian Resource Group
estimates per each commercial sugar filter

8. Paraffin wax is a white or colorless soft solid derivable
from petroleum

9. Paper starts out as a tree on a tree farm and is taken to a mill
where the trees are made into a squishy pulp. The pulp is then
rolled out into paper.

10. Although there are something like 200 plants in the world that produce latex,
over 99 percent of the world's natural rubber is made from the latex
that comes from a tree species called Hevea brasiliensis, widely known as
the rubber tree.

11. Jute is made from the bark of the white jute plant and the tossa jute
plant. Jute plants grow annually and take about 120 days to reach
maturity.