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03-30-12, 07:40 AM #1
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Vegans bash Starbucks for using red beetles to flavor strawberry frappuccinos
Starbucks has the vegan community seeing red over what it recently began using to color its Strawberry Frappuccinos: beetles.
More here: http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...ice/53839006/1
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03-30-12, 07:52 AM #2
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If they prefer carcinogenic coal oil derived dye I say let them have all they can take.
Beetles are natural so I'm sticking with them.
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03-30-12, 06:52 PM #3
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03-30-12, 07:17 PM #4
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03-30-12, 08:07 PM #5
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It must be terrible for those vegans to have to go through life not being able to enjoy a Starbucks Strawberry Frappuccino.
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03-30-12, 09:49 PM #6
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Maybe they were free-range beetles?
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03-31-12, 01:23 AM #7
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Vegan or not, who thought ground up bugs would be appetizing for anyone but Bear Grylls?
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03-31-12, 06:25 AM #8
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Vegans don't ride motorcycles.
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03-31-12, 09:25 AM #9
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Originally Posted by Xiphos
Yeah, I have half a mind to join up with the vegans on this one.
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Here's the wiki article on the stuff, for those of you who may be curious. And as it's widely used, you've probably been eating it for years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine
And the one on the history of the use of the beetle itself.
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