Beef flavored ice cream

Gelatin seems so archaic. It is something I remember talking about with my mother as a kid. Who would have thought that it would still appear in food, especially since, once again, there are alternatives. Agar gum is derived from seaweed and serves the same purpose. Plus, it does not use animal parts. However, despite this fact, gelatin still appears in yogurts, ice cream, some desserts, as well as toaster pastries and various other products.

One of the most annoying things that I have come across in the grocery store is when I think that I could still eat something, like various brands of toaster pastries, and then come to the part in the ingredients list that says "gelatin." So any time I buy a box of toaster pastries, I need to buy the expensive organic ones. There are three or four individually wrapped packages in the box, and they cost nearly $5. It does not really make much sense, but even the generic brands of these breakfast fruit/chocolate/sugary cinnamony filled wonders are made with pig and cow parts. How appetizing is that?! Do we really want to be eating ground up bones in our breakfast? Or our ice cream? I do not know about anybody else, but even if I ate meat, I would not want animal bones in my ice cream. Ice cream is dessert, to be eaten after everyone has had their fill of steak or pork, or whatever kind of flesh happened to be on the menu. I do not think many people would really go for an ice cream that is chicken flavored, or beef flavored. So why hide beef or pork in it? (No, I am not implying that the bones of these animals are flavorful, I am only trying to make a point that if we do not manufacture meat-flavored dairy products, then why do companies put animal byproducts in them?)
Humans do not normally eat the bones as well as the flesh that is hanging off of them. People pick the bones clean and then leave them, as do other animals. Therefore, I do not think anybody can make an argument that the creation and use of gelatin is, in any way, a natural occurrence. It is just another way for the food industry to use as much of the animals it slaughters as possible to return a greater profit. This does not, in any way, mean that it is good for consumption.