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Vegans and people with asthma found out Starbucks was using crushed beetles in red food dye, now Starbucks is using dye from tomatoes. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE83J0Z120120420?irpc=932
Man that is a little crazy to me but to each their own. It wouldn't surprise me if the real reason they switched dies is because it's cheaper to get it from tomatoes. They often spin things to sound like they are doing you a favor, yeah I'm a cynical guy haha. Sounds like they were getting that dye from the scale insect that covers itself in white and is usually found on cacti esp. in Mexico(?) I saw a show about that and how they do the collecting. That insect is a big pest to cacti. I see them a lot here in Texas, blood red if they are smashed, didn't know they used them for a dye until I saw that show.
I knew that, im just going by what they said. Most people dont know where natural food coloring came from. Thats why some people have allergies to food dye its the insect somehow makes asthma attacks in allergic people probably from the insects exoskeleton.For the record it is not a beetle, it is a scale insect.
Many of them do protest all animal products. This is just a great example of one that is even more unnecessary than all the others. If people want eggs, they want eggs and not egg substitutes. If they want whole milk, they don't want soy milk. Bacon for bacon etc. If they want a strawberry drink, they don't necessarily want strawberry with bugjuice! This is just something that has alternatives, and it is also sneaky! If you're eating an egg, you know it. If you're drinking a coffee, you may not realize you're also drinking bugs!@Thistles: No, I get that. If that were solely the case then why not protest animal products, in general, that Starbucks uses? As someone that does actually care where his food comes from I feel that this is a misguided effort in comparison with the much more deleterious food processing/sourcing that is well entrenched. My post probably makes it seem as if I have a grudge against vegans, which isn't the case. It is the sector of that particular populace that uses hard line "evangelism"(for lack of a better term) to get their viewpoint across.