Better start reading labeled folks. They’re putting crickets in your food whether you like it or not.
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Isn't L-Cystine an amino acid? Same as L-Arginine and L-Lysine? As far as the eating of insects go, I am not too terribly worried about a few parts making it into the mix, but anything intentionally produced from insect bodies is just plain cheap. Smells like a Global Warming BS excuse to reduce the cost of food production for more profits in smaller areas. Why don't the "Elite" just lead by example and eat all bugs and I am sure it will catch on with the city folk as it becomes hip. The rest of us will be the peasantry eating steak, ribs, chicken and fish along with vegetables and fruits that we scratch out of the earth with our own two hands.
A lot of L-Cysteine is sourced from human hair, because it's cheap and easy to source that way. Much of it comes from barbershop floors because that's the absolute cheapest form of it. You might get lucky and get the L-Cysteine that's sourced from feathers, but a large majority comes from floor hair.
Thank you for the information. I had no idea.
http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Health/l-cysteine-the-human-hair-additive-in-your-food-facts.html
Wow, even something that is an amino acid is derived from human hair. Nuts.
Red-4 comes from beetles, while many of the other food dyes come from petroleum. High Fructose Corn Syrup is another fun one. That one doesn't come from anything weird, but it's an incredibly cheap sugar that exists in almost everything in the stores, often alongside other sugars. And we wonder why do many Americans get fat and diabetic.
Always read the labels, and do your research on where the ingredients come from. I'm only barely scratching the surface here. Avoid processed foods if you can, and get your meat directly from farmers. And buy organic foods when you can, unless you like ingesting herbicides and pesticides.
Absolutely, the amount of garbage they put in processed foods is hard to believe. I will be putting in garden beds and planter boxes this fall. Going to start growing all my favorite vegetables. Will be planting a couple of fruit trees in my yard as well. I had useless decorative trees removed because they were falling apart. I do avoid high fructose corn syrup, the amount of disinformation out there on that one product alone tells me everything I need to know about it.