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The vegans will starve: it’s a bug-eat-bug world out there

8 February 2023

5:30 AM

8 February 2023

5:30 AM

Clicking on the link to a recent Reader’s Digest story about common foods that secretly contain insects was a mistake.

I could have lived my whole life without knowing 125 grams of chocolate probably contains ‘74 insect fragments’ – whatever those are. No wait… They elaborate. Cockroaches are the most common donor of these ‘body bits’ that fall into the machines during harvesting where they get ripped up and roasted.

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