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08/18/2006: "You eat bugs"

Foods like yogurt use beetle extracts as color dyes. The female cochineal beetles and their eggs are used to make red dyes in yogurt, Hershey candies, Tropicana grapefruit juice, and other common foods. If you are a vegetarian, contact the food and drug administration and let them know you are one of millions of people who want more descriptive labels on the food you buy. Printing "yellow #6" is a joke, I want to know how yellow #6 is made. I don't eat animals or the bugs that eat off them, so stop putting dyes in my food, please.