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Natural red dye comes from cochineal bugs
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Vegetarians of Lemmy, what's your thoughts on this? I've known about this for a while, but I'm looking for gelatin on that ingredients list, not bugs - I genuinely don't care, there's probably trace bugs in there regardless, lol.
Killing with intent is where I draw the line. Bugs were very important in our journey to understand brains and thus deserve some respect as a cognitive being imo.