No more beetle-juice frapps.

• Position: Coffee - Starbucks - Brief article

Last January, Starbucks decided to move away from artificial ingredients. So to give its strawberry Frappuccinos and some of its other foods and beverages their pinkish-red hue, it turned to beetles--as in insects. That decision infuriated vegans, who choose not to eat animal products, and inspired an online petition urging Starbucks to switch to a natural but non-animal coloring, like red beets or purple sweet potatoes. As weird as it may sound, cochineal extract--a food dye made from the dried bodies of the cochineal beetle, which is indigenous to Mexico and South America--has the federal Food and Drug Administration's stamp...