Meet your Meat...

…is the title of the page at www.meat.org. This site features an 11 minute video that may ultimately change the way you view your next chicken nugget and hamburger. With undercover reporters and cameras in chicken, pig, and cattle meat factories, you'll see the truth to where your food comes from. Fair warning, it's violent and gruesome, so be prepared.

This isn't an attempt to force a change on your diet, to each their own. Personally  MY biggest problem is ignorance in this country. With all of our resources available to us, there is no reason to not question and investigate where we get the simplest of things, such as the bacon on our plate. You can decide to do something about it only after you understand the unnecessary pain, suffering, and deaths these animals are forced to endure. From the minute they are born they are subjected to pain, whether its the newborn piglets being castrated with no pain killers, chickens not being able to stand for their are so genetically modified, or cow's throats ripped open to drain their blood while they are still fully conscious. Please America, QUESTION what you eat. 

Natural Red 4...

...is a popular food coloring used NOT to be confused with Red Dye #40. This commonly used in our 'red' foods like yogurts, tomato products, candy, juices, and cosmetics.

Would you believe me if I said this food coloring is derived directly from insects?

GROSS, right?
Let's break it down:

Natural Red 4 is known under a few aliases: Crimson Lake, Cochineal, Natural Red 4, C.I. 75470, or E120

It is created from the insects seen above, which are found in places like Peru the surfaces of cacti. These insects are scraped off, either boiled or dried, and their abdomens are literally pounded to create the 'red' coloring that, after a little processing, is now ready to be mixed into your ketchup! 

So next time you eat something red, be aware that these insects may be in any one of these types of products!

• Food Industry – Frozen fish, meat, etc.
• Beverage Industry – Soft drinks, fruit drinks, energy drinks, etc.
• Alcoholic Beverages – Products with low pH requiring red or orange tones
• Dairy Industry – Yogurts, ice cream and dairy based beverages
• Confections – Candy, fillings, syrups, chewing gum, etc.
• Fruit Preparations – Canned fruits such as cherries, Jams, Pulp, etc.
• Cosmetic Industry – Dispersions close to eye area, eye shadows, lipsticks, etc.
• Others – Ketchup, powdered drinks, dehydrated soups, canned soups, etc

http://gentleworld.org/natural-colors-carmine-cochineal/