[Newsbot]

Title: Starbucks to stop using food colouring made from bugs
Category: lifestyle
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2012-04-19 15:08:26

[DrCaleb]

Pussies.

Bugs have more protien in them than Beef.

[BartSimpson]

Great. So instead of a natural food coloring they'll go back to using something artificial.

Of course, why add a color at all?

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Great. So instead of a natural food coloring they'll go back to using something artificial.

Of course, why add a color at all?

Saves having to add 'fruit'.

[Strutz]

Indeed Dr C...

$1:

The petition was started by a South Carolina woman who wanted to inform consumers that the chain's strawberry drinks weren't vegan-friendly.

I would like to assume that a "strawberry" drink actually contained strawberries. Would that not be vegan? The hue may not end up being bright red but the need to add red colouring at all to make it convincing is stupid and unecessary.

[fifeboy]

Well, first of all they are not beetles but Hemiptera, related to spit bugs and second , the USDA and Health Canada don't say bugs, or rodent feces can't be in our food , just how much is allowed there.

[raydan]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Great. So instead of a natural food coloring they'll go back to using something artificial.

Of course, why add a color at all?

Read the article!!!

Lycopene, a tomato-based extract.


But you're right, I would prefer...
#1. no coloring
#2. animal or vegetable based coloring

...over artificial any day.

[ShepherdsDog]

Stop and ask yourself, the next time you're enjoying your grain product(not served as a liquid) with a dab of jam, jelly or fruit spread how many bugs are ground up and cooked (even after rinsing) with the fruit and berries that go into it. Anyone else out there remember Beetleblood Cake? last time I had it was from a bakery in what used to be the old Eaton's Centre in Winnipeg, when I was in my early teens...so it had to be the early 80s

[raydan]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Stop and ask yourself, the next time you're enjoying your grain product(not served as a liquid) with a dab of jam, jelly or fruit spread how many bugs are ground up and cooked (even after rinsing) with the fruit and berries that go into it. Anyone else out there remember Beetleblood Cake? last time I had it was from a bakery in what used to be the old Eaton's Centre in Winnipeg, when I was in my early teens...so it had to be the early 80s

How to freak out Vegans, SD...

Buy any lettuce, wash, rince, wash again...sorry, you still missed a few bugs and/or eggs.



Can't see them... doesn't mean they're not there.

[ShepherdsDog]

Bugs and grubs have been part of our diet for millions of years, even before we split into different primate species. Hell, you could likely go back to the first mammals if not further.......mind you crustaceans are as close as i'll come to knowingly eating something 'buglike'

[FoxySky]

I would definitely take bug food coloring over some man made, cancer causing artificial crap any day!