WHAT THE FUCK, LAYS??

I was having a perfect day. The weather was nice, I ran into one of my old classmates, and everything was going great....until I came home with my groceries!! First, I went to Whole Foods to get perishable items and dinner, and then went across the street to a Super Fresh to get non-perishable items. I usually don't eat chips but since I had picked up a sandwich from WF, I decided to get a bag of chips. I looked for the "healthiest" item in the aisle, read the nutritional info (mainly fat content and carbs) and threw it into my cart. It was Lay's Baked BBQ chips.

I got back to my apartment, opened my sandwich, opened the big bag of chips, took out a few and put them on my plate, and put one crisp in my mouth. It had a different taste. I have tried regular Lays BBQ in the past, and this one was different. Most likely, it was because it was baked, not fried like the regular Lays. So then, I decided to check the ingredient list. First thing I read was "CONTAINS EGG, MILK, SOY, AND WHEAT INGREDIENTS". Hmm....sure these are potato chips, I asked myself. I understand milk because it might have cheese, and these days, it's difficult to find a product without soy or wheat ingredients. But egg? That's an odd one!

So I continued reading the main ingredients, which are as follows:

Dehydrated potatoes, corn oil, modified food starch, sugar, salt, and less than 1% of the following: onion powder, soy lecithin, dextrose, leavening (monocalcium phosphate and sodium bicarbonate), natural flavors, molasses, fructose, spices, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, torula yeast, wheat starch, garlic powder, malt extract, maltodextrin, extracts of paprika, citric acid, chicken fat, soy flour, tomato paste, corn syrup solids, yeast extract, barley malt flour, lactic acid, egg yolk, and whey.

Chicken fat?? WHAT THE FUCK IS CHICKEN FAT DOING IN MY BAG OF CHIPS???? I would've overlooked the chicken fat had it come at a time when I wasn't a vegetarian. But seriously...chicken fat? I know about deep fried shit in tallow and lard, but this is taking it a bit too far. So then, I decided to check out Lays' website to get more info on their other products. What do I find? A lot of their products contain Porcine, or pork enzyme....essentially, enzymes from piggies. Almost all of them have natural flavors. For those of you who don't know what natural flavor is,
The exact definition of natural flavorings & flavors from Title 21, Section 101, part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations is as follows:

"The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional."

Few years ago, I had read a book by Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, where he described the differences between artificial and so-called natural flavors. I won't go into all the details, but the bottom line is that natural flavor isn't really "natural". Some more research later I found out that Frito Lay's wasn't giving out exact information about what kind of flavors were included in "natural flavors" (figure it out for yourself if you're smart enough). Hmm..... MOFO ASSHOLES!! I mean seriously!!??!

Is it too much to ask for vegetarian yogurt, vegetarian Starburst and Skittles, and vegetarian potato chips...like they have it in the UK?