If you didn’t know it, Starbucks has changed their Pumpkin Spice Latte from years past. The surprise was that they have decided to use pumpkin in a drink with pumpkin in the name, the shock is that they are only using pumpkin because of chemophobia about a natural chemical called 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI). They didn’t do it on their own. The activist group which calls itself Center for Science in the Public Interest has ironically been engaged in a war on science since its inception and it senses weakness in groups like Starbucks and Chipotle – if they caved into environmentalist extortion once, they will cave in again. Read more.
