I found this item while browsing the net earlier and rather than finding myself astonished and disgusted, I in fact find myself intrigued by the comment "..by extracting the red body material from pregnant beetles".  How, exactly, do you "extract" the red body material from a pregnant beetle?  Ask it nicely?  Gas it and use a microscopic syringe?  It is my experience that beetles never sit still, even if you ask them nicely.

Does this then mean that we are unethically murdering innocent beetles just for their body pigments?  In much the same way as the evil poachers in Africa murder elephants just for their tusks?  Surely this is indecent and we should all be protesting against the cruel treatment of beetles.  That being said, I am pleased that this is not happening, since I would be sentenced to death for the number of spiders I have violently murdered - purely for being a spider.