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Few people know that the food coloring listed as cochineal extract comes from female beetles. Food activists want to spread the word.
When you dig into a strawberry Yoplait yogurt, take a moment to contemplate where the beautiful pink color comes from. Strawberries? Think again. It comes from crushed bugs. Specifically, from the female cochineal beetles and their eggs. And it's not just yogurt. The bugs are also used to give red coloring to Hershey Good & Plenty candies, Tropicana grapefruit juice, and other common foods.
Thank goodness we're eating organic yogurt. Bleh. I don't need a helping of beetles in the morning.
Brushing Shelby every day results in a big pile of dog fur in the side yard. A pile that gets bigger, and bigger, until Steven tells me he think's is gross, and I go vacuum it up.
But, that got me to thinking...this stuff never seems to go away, and with all the fur that is lost by us, and our pets, and all the furry animals in the world, why isn't the earth covered in fur by now?
I"ve been meaning to Google this for months now, and I just found the answer.
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/organic/msg1109552123972.html
There really is a forum for everything.
