The labeling exemption bothers me most - don't we have a right to know *all* of the ingredients we are consuming!??!
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1549583
How nasty is this???
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annie oakley
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EEEEWWWWWWWWWWW.
What next? I still can't get over the fact that a food can be genetically modified and they don't have to tell you how. What if they start putting genes from wheat, for example, into squash or spinach? A lot of us will be up the creek and never have a clue why. Lately I have been doing a great deal of my food shopping at Whole Foods, where they guarantee NO genetically-modified foods at all in the store.
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Polly
What next? I still can't get over the fact that a food can be genetically modified and they don't have to tell you how. What if they start putting genes from wheat, for example, into squash or spinach? A lot of us will be up the creek and never have a clue why. Lately I have been doing a great deal of my food shopping at Whole Foods, where they guarantee NO genetically-modified foods at all in the store.
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Polly
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You know, it's kind of funny, in a pathetic sort of way. The govt. regulators limit things like the amount of rat droppings that are allowed in coffee, and the number of bugs and bug parts that are allowed in grains, etc., but apparently, as long as the bugs are pure and unadulterated, if's perfectly all right to use them as food additives.
It's pretty obvious why they are not listed on the label. Who would buy those products if they knew what was actually in them?
The dye is red. I think I'll try to steer clear of juices and candy that might benefit from a red dye. I reckon I won't be eating any more yogurt, and I'll stick with 100% pure grape juice, as my only juice selection. Hopefully the stuff is not in chocolate candy, since there wouldn't be any point to it, and most of us don't eat much candy, anyway.
That seems like a rather weird way to create a dye for use in food, anyway, to say the least.
Wayne
It's pretty obvious why they are not listed on the label. Who would buy those products if they knew what was actually in them?
The dye is red. I think I'll try to steer clear of juices and candy that might benefit from a red dye. I reckon I won't be eating any more yogurt, and I'll stick with 100% pure grape juice, as my only juice selection. Hopefully the stuff is not in chocolate candy, since there wouldn't be any point to it, and most of us don't eat much candy, anyway.
That seems like a rather weird way to create a dye for use in food, anyway, to say the least.
Wayne
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Grannyh,
DDT would tend to cause the eggshells to be thin and weak. Not to worry, though, because the use of DDT was ended at least 10 years ago in both Peru and the Canary Islands, which are the primary sources of the cochineal beetles used for the dye. Therefore, their eggs are probably in good shape, by now. LOL.
Wayne
DDT would tend to cause the eggshells to be thin and weak. Not to worry, though, because the use of DDT was ended at least 10 years ago in both Peru and the Canary Islands, which are the primary sources of the cochineal beetles used for the dye. Therefore, their eggs are probably in good shape, by now. LOL.
Wayne
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I agree they should be on the label, but for those of us who eat meat, as long as I can't tell its squished up bugs, what the heck! I remember finding earwigs in the cereal bins at summer camp...Just Protien after all 
Big deal though for those who have life threatening allergies...I'm so thankful that most (if not all) of us here just get a D reaction to our trigger.
Katy
Big deal though for those who have life threatening allergies...I'm so thankful that most (if not all) of us here just get a D reaction to our trigger.Katy
Speaking of grains, the USDA tolerance level for bugs in grain, (regardless of the size of the bug), is two per sample, (sample size is roughly a couple of cupfuls), for live bugs. Dead bugs would be considered foreign matter, so would be limited to around 2% for most grains. Most processors hold their products to much stricter standards, for human consumption, obviously.
I don't mind accidentally eatin' a few bugs occasionally for the protein, either, but eatin' 'em just to get a color enhancement, seems like an overkill. LOL.
Wayne
I don't mind accidentally eatin' a few bugs occasionally for the protein, either, but eatin' 'em just to get a color enhancement, seems like an overkill. LOL.
Wayne
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Cochineal has been used for many years as a food coloring here in Australia. I remember my mother using it to color cake icing etc. It was used too to color boiled chokos to turn them into something resembling cooked pears back in the depression era. It is still widely available in the supermarket & I have a bottle in my cupboard right now.
This is an interesting site that shows that it is used in many food & personal product areas.
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botany ... Cochineal/
When you think of some of the things that we eat without thinking about it, like sardines, prawns, oysters, muscles etc that still have their intestines intact, a crushed beetle is not so bad & must be better than the chemical dyes etc that are used.
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Liz
This is an interesting site that shows that it is used in many food & personal product areas.
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botany ... Cochineal/
When you think of some of the things that we eat without thinking about it, like sardines, prawns, oysters, muscles etc that still have their intestines intact, a crushed beetle is not so bad & must be better than the chemical dyes etc that are used.
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Liz
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Just to add to the eweeeeee factor.... If you eat off of an old or antique table you may well be eating off a surface finished with resin secreted by the lac beetle. Check this out -
http://www.shellac.net/information.html
Shellac , in all its variations, is one of my favorite finishes but I don’t let on to the customer what it is lest I “BUG” them. Haha!
Matthew
http://www.shellac.net/information.html
Shellac , in all its variations, is one of my favorite finishes but I don’t let on to the customer what it is lest I “BUG” them. Haha!
Matthew
Well, that did it for me. After reading those two sites, I'm sold on the benefits of bugs. They make those bugs sound so good that now I practically crave 'em. LOL.
For some reason or other, I had always assumed that shellac was a product of the timber industry. Silly me.
Tex
For some reason or other, I had always assumed that shellac was a product of the timber industry. Silly me.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.