It's hard to believe that the food you've been eating contains bugs or their secretions! But the beauty products you've been using probably do as well. Silk even comes from a bug! No not the plantbased milk...

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Confectioner's glaze/pharmaceutical glaze/resinous glaze/natural glaze/pure food glaze is commonly found as a coating on many candies, nail polishes, varnishes and pills, it gives them a glossy finish. This is the same as shellac resin and is secreted by the female Lac Bug, it is quite literally Beetle Juice.

Cochineal/ red5/ carmine comes from the cochineal bug/Beatle. The bug must be killed in order to collect the distinct red colour that is used as a pigment in many makeups and even food.

Why do vegans not eat/cause harm to bugs?
Because we are exploiting the animals/bugs just for what they produce. Many bugs do have to die for these products to be produced.

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