food for thought next time you eat food with red dye.....

[Beer Snob-50]

There are crushed bugs in your food.
Carmine, a vibrant red food colorant, is actually the crushed abdomen of the female Dactylopius coccus, a beetle-like African insect. Not only is the thought of eating bug juice gross, but it also poses an ethical issue for some vegetarians and vegans. Look for it in red-colored candies and juices.

[Bake]

1. Mmmm ... protein ...

:hi:

Bake

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. There are always bugs in your food.

Always have been, always will be. http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/text18/food.html

[Kali]

3. better than petroleum-based dye

of course good food rarely needs that kind of enhancement anyway so folks eating "food" that needs color enhancement probably don't care all that much about its production.

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. DO TOO!!!!!!!

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[Arkansas Granny]

4. If most people knew how many bug parts (and worse) are allowed in

foods that they eat everyday, they might get really upset. Sometimes ignorance really can be bliss.

[7wo7rees]

5. The beverage with the highest amount of bugs is V-8.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. I wonder why that is. I really like that stuff.

[7wo7rees]

12. Probably happens because V8 isn't made in a lab.

It has ACTUAL vegetables grown in the ground, pulverized (along with the bugs that got caught in the plants at harvest), and made into juice.
BTW, this is the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question I still remember from 20 years ago.
Keep drinking it, Granny. It's good for ya!

[Zephie]

6. You might enjoy this Cracked article

"5 Horrifying Food Additives You've Probably Eaten Today", Carmine is #3 and they also note that companies also call it: Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red 4, C.I. 75470 or E120, so watch out for those as well.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15982_5-horrifying-food-additives-youve-probably-eaten-today.html

[quakerboy]

9. Cool by me

the only parts of eating bug that I dont care for are the crunch and the squish. Otherwise, eating bugs is A1 in my book.

[Ohio Joe]

10. pffffft. I eat vienna sausages and you think bugs are going to bother me

Sheesh.

[madinmaryland]

11. I now know how to change the color of the Soylent Green that I eat!!

:woohoo:

[bluesbassman]

13. Just so you know, Catsup is the last thing they make at a tomato cannery.

I spent a summer working at one. You would not believe what is left on the conveyor belt by the time it gets to the catsup section.