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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1106 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
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Yes - cochineal has always been used as food colouring - I've a small bottle of it in the kitchen - so what?
It makes pink icing on cakes, for a start.
What exactly is the difference between eating say, a steak , an egg, an oyster and an insect? |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 31-03-2012 11:18 Post subject: |
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| I'd much rather eat something coloured with cochineal than with some artificial colouring. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 31-03-2012 11:19 Post subject: |
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| Cochise wrote: | Yes - cochineal has always been used as food colouring - I've a small bottle of it in the kitchen - so what?
It makes pink icing on cakes, for a start.
What exactly is the difference between eating say, a steak , an egg, an oyster and an insect? |
Aaaaargh! Bugs on my cake! |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 31-03-2012 18:45 Post subject: |
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| It makes a difference if you're vegan. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| locussolus Great Old One Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Total posts: 232 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 31-03-2012 22:13 Post subject: |
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| With utmost respect to vegans, isn't it inevitable to eat an insect at one point or another, in a salad, etc. just breathing............why make a fuss over this when there are much more important issues going on, with say, livestock, cruelty to animals and what have you. |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
| Posted: 01-04-2012 08:04 Post subject: |
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| locussolus wrote: | | ...why make a fuss over this when there are much more important issues going on... |
They'd tell you it is the thin end of the wedge. It's making people aware of what's being put in their food and drink. To vegans, the death or exploitation of any animal is unacceptable; no exceptions.
Just because this has been raised doesn't mean that focus has been shifted from other issues. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17897 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 01-04-2012 08:14 Post subject: |
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The cochineal thing is weird because back in the early 80s I certainly remember reading that red food colouring was no longer made of beetles as artificial methods were now better and cheaper.
The poor insects must be feeling the pinch, like the rest of us. 
Anyway, going back even further, finding out as a teenager where the pink food colour comes from certainly took the edge off my sweet tooth, which can't have been a bad thing.  |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
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| Posted: 01-04-2012 09:51 Post subject: |
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| escargot1 wrote: |
Anyway, going back even further, finding out as a teenager where the pink food colour comes from certainly took the edge off my sweet tooth, which can't have been a bad thing. |
Was that in the days when you could get a big bag of gobstoppers for a penny? |
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| jacolantern what candle?
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| Posted: 01-04-2012 11:10 Post subject: |
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As Mme Mollusc pointed out there was a big hoohar about cochineal no longer being used, except smarties were, for some reason excepted, and i have delighted over the years by telling small children about it, usually just after they'd finished eating a packet. 
Maybe it's a us/uk thing, or maybe its because they can still lump it under the all natural ingredients banner?
Tho there are still plenty of natural colourings they could use-beetroot etc or even...strawberries  |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Ronson8 wrote: | | escargot1 wrote: |
Anyway, going back even further, finding out as a teenager where the pink food colour comes from certainly took the edge off my sweet tooth, which can't have been a bad thing. |
Was that in the days when you could get a big bag of gobstoppers for a penny? |
And a bottle of ginger ale for a ha'penny. Them were the days. |
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| oldrover Great Old One Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Total posts: 2147 Location: Wales Gender: Male |
| Posted: 01-04-2012 16:28 Post subject: |
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| Smarties are lovely, doesn't matter what's in them. |
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| Heckler20 The Sockpuppet of
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| ramonmercado wrote: | | Ronson8 wrote: | | escargot1 wrote: |
Anyway, going back even further, finding out as a teenager where the pink food colour comes from certainly took the edge off my sweet tooth, which can't have been a bad thing. |
Was that in the days when you could get a big bag of gobstoppers for a penny? |
And a bottle of ginger ale for a ha'penny. Them were the days. |
And a knee-trembler for three shillings and thruppence. |
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