bad 4 u

It turns out that conversation hearts are bad for the environment, even ones with a poem on them. The main ingredients of conversation hearts have always been sugar, corn syrup, and gelatin.

Sugar production damages national treasures and typically grown using pesticides that create toxic runoff. It also takes 1,500 to 3,000 libers of water to produce each kilogram of sugar, not to mention the soot, ash, and ammonia released during production. Corn syrup is produced from corn, which demands huge applications of fertilizers. Fertilizer runoff into the Mississippi River creates a giant algae bloom that kills fish and marine plants. Gelatin is made from the boiled down collagen from the connective tissue, bones, and skin of cattle and pigs. Ick.

The eco-friendly hearts shown above were made with the ACME Heart Maker. Sweets to the sweet!
- posted by pioneergirl at 9:17 PM