Vegans slam Starbucks' use of ground-up bugs

[Jazzy]

Starbucks has the vegan community seeing red over what it recently began using to color its Strawberry Frappuccinos: beetles.



That's beetles as in ground up cochineal beetles -- mostly found in Mexico and South America.



Gross as that may sound, it's a common, government-approved food coloring used widely throughout the food industry. It's in everything from some Yoplait yogurts to three Kellogg's Pop-Tarts flavors.



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I never knew ground up beetles are a government approved food coloring, did you?

 

[Sinon]

There are much worse things to be eating, and I think that's the worst thing about it. I don't fully understand why vegans are up in arms about it, however--it isn't listed as a vegan drink.

 

[DrLeftover]

And you wondered why their fancy coffees are so expensive.



Makes you wonder what else they've been putting in them.



Of course, people like me who have had MAYBE three Starbucks coffees in their entire lives are laughing their asses off at the whole thing.

 

[Jazzy]

I guess I'm odd because I've never had coffee from Starbucks. I can't even afford to walk past their door!

 

[DrLeftover]

I got stuck at an airport one time inside a concourse for five hours waiting on US Airways to buy another aircraft or to bail their pilot out of jail or something so they could to take us to Dallas, and Starbucks was the only realistic option for a cup of coffee.



I had to explain to Tweedle-dee behind the counter that I just wanted a Cup Of Plain Coffee, damnit.



That was three years ago.



And it was my last time ever buying anything from them.

 

[Flurry]

Aren't most bugs healthy to eat as it is?

 

[Jazzy]

Aren't most bugs healthy to eat as it is?

What kind do you eat?

 

[The Dragon Master]

Of course, people like me who have had MAYBE three Starbucks coffees in their entire lives are laughing their asses off at the whole thing.

Like me as well

 

[Evil Eye]

I'm not surprised...

I hear a common red food dye is made from lice or something.

Aren't most bugs healthy to eat as it is?

Yeah, the non-poisonous ones are very healthy. Cheap meat replacers apparently.

 

[DrLeftover]

Which is worse, bugs, or a chemistry book for an ingredient list?

 

[Sam.]

Vegans need to shut up and eat a steak.

 

[Evil Eye]

Which is worse, bugs, or a chemistry book for an ingredient list?

From the bugs' point of view?