I believe gelatin is always animal based, hooves and horns and all that.
A seaweed based product that you are after is called Agar Agar, or more
often just Agar. Its a dry powder you mix with hot water and flavor/sugar
and sets into jello.
John

At 12:53 AM 3/02/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I was pretty certain that a non-meat gelatin existed but the question for
>food allergy sufferers is which kind is used in the production of the food
>in question. It is almost impossible to know unless there is exemplary
>labelling.
>
>Don
>
>At 09:43 PM 2/2/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>I am a vegetarian also.  There is one brand of gelatin that isn't derived
>>from animals.
>