Did you know......maybe you don`t wanna know

A few great  reasons why growing your own food is a good thing ........

After an afternoon of research on the net I came up with this :

• Apparently butter is only yellow because companies add the coloring to it......real butter is whitish.
• Vanilla ice cream and such is made from castoreum.....also known as beaver anal gland secretions......shudder...
• Beetles,or  cochineal (as it is perhaps more commonly known), is used to dye foods red purple and pink, like fruit juices, wine, ect.
• cysteine, made of human hair and duck bristles.....used as a dough enhancer for prepackaged breads
• methylparaben......ugh....found in wines, soft drinks, and concentrated juices.....it originates from the vagina's of dogs when they are in heat.....
• the FDA states that an average of 30 or more insect fragments and 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter, a kid staple, is allowed, before any action is taken. An average of 60 or more aphids and/or thrips and/or mites per 100 grams of frozen broccoli is allowed while 5 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 100 grams of tomato juice is okay......
• Brominated vegetable oil, a flame retardant......also found in sports drinks
• civet coffee, very expensive, made from the poop of the civet creature....
• Worcestershire sauce.....made of dissolved anchovies, bones and all
• half of all grocery store meats contain MRSA......

Makes you think, huh?