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Ah, cochineal red! Often hidden away in the small print of ingredients, it's a nightmare for vegetarians. Many a time I've enjoyed a strawberry milkshake only t
by osrec 9y ago
Ah, cochineal red! Often hidden away in the small print of ingredients, it's a nightmare for vegetarians. Many a time I've enjoyed a strawberry milkshake only to discover to my horror that its colourant was crushed bugs. As a vegetarian, the enjoyment doesn't last long!
- ClassyJacket 9y agoMy favourite thing is when they use it to dye beverages sold in a can, which you never see the colour of anyway.
- jstanley 9y agoUnless you pour them into a glass.
- BenjiWiebe 9y agoYes. I actually prefer to drink most of my canned beverages poured over ice, in a glass.
- userbinator 9y agoObviously if you're allergic to the compound it doesn't make any difference, but it might not necessarily be made from crushed bugs --- it was synthesised in the lab 2 decades ago: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/1991/C3/c39910001319 http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/1991/C3/c39910...
- voltagex_ 9y agoWhich is cheaper, the synthesized or naturally occurring compound?
- adrianN 9y agoDo you realize how many bugs and small rodents are killed to produce the vegetables you eat?
- solipsism 9y agoIs your intent to argue that vegetarians should consume only air? If you take just a split second to think, you can come up with the obvious vegetarian rebuttals to your statement.
- osrec 9y agoYes, and if it could be reduced, that would be great. The meat industry is rather more barbaric though. I used to eat meat, but gave it up aged 11 after seeing how the animals are treated.
- schoen 9y agoI remember buying some Trader Joe's strawberry soymilk about 18 years ago and then discovering that it was nonvegetarian for this reason. Nonvegetarian soymilk isn't something you see every day (I guess unless you worked for Trader Joe's in 1999).