Get this from USA Today. Starbucks, fully in step with the "all-natural" craze, was using a dye produced from insects to color some of its drinks and food products. Starbucks chose the bug coloring in a move away from artificial coloring and ingredients. Then Starbucks execs ran afoul of the vegans. Protesting vegans have succeeded in making Starbucks go bug-free. Vegans evidently consider bug-coloring in drinks and food the equivalent of eating a twelve-ounce New York strip steak. In fact, a vegan "barista" at a Starbucks store leaked the buggy information to a vegan blogger, and before long, much of vegandom was up in arms. To pacify vociferous vegans, Starbucks will switch to using "lycopene, a natural, tomato-based extract" to color drinks and food. Herein lies an interesting quandary for the "back to nature" crowd, which must include plenty of hemp-clothed and sandal-wearing vegans. Bugs -- beetles, which the dye was derived from -- are "all-natural" the last time anyone checked. Bugs, along with a whole host of critters, are....
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