As those readers who are both traditionally observant and
parents will surely testify, it is not so easy to get children's vitamins for
kids that are kosher. The problem is that most kids vitamins have gelatin in
them. So it was good to find Vitamin Friends Multi Vitamin
Vegetarian Gummies with an OU. In addition to the OU though, there is
an Autism Hope Alliance Autism
Approved symbol, presumably due to the fact that in addition to not having
gelatin, the gummies do not have gluten either. I guess this group is not made
up of autistic
warrior daddies fighting to save their children from neurotypicality
through gluten diets. I checked the group's website and they openly say that
they are the "first non-profit foundation for Autism to emerge from the
natural foods industry." So they are not even pretending to be
anything but a creation of corporations trying to make money by pushing health
fads. This is like if Kellogs had decided to start the OU and its kids'
outreach arm, NCSY, themselves in order to convince people to keep kosher by
only eating cornflakes. Perhaps Maxwell House should not have stopped at making
Haggadahs but should have invented their own Passover Seder ritual complete
with four cups of coffee. It is bad enough having to deal with parents
silencing their autistic children and forcing junk science down their throats,
it turns out that the parents are, in fact, corporate shills. If only we had
Big Pharma to support us.
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