Waiter, there's a fly in my food coloring

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So, suppose you were casually reading the label on your bottle of Gatorade one day, and you noticed the ingredients listed were water, sucrose syrup, citric acid and crushed female cochineal beetles? Be afraid, be very afraid, because according to The Wall Street Journal (it’s free content, so click away), it may happen soon. It turns out that many of those lovely colorings are actually derived from insects, and some groups (such as the Center

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