Until a
Worldwide
ban
came
into
force
in
1979
, the
popular
black
currant
drink
Ribena
was
made
from the
sweat
glands
of the
Indonesian
Turtle
Pig
, a
type
of
pig
with a
hard
scaly
"
shell
" on its
back
,
now
an
endangered
species
. The
glands
of
1400
pigs
were
required
to
produce
just
one
fluid
ounce
of the
sweet
sticky
purple
concentrate
, while the
rest
of the
culled
pig
'
s
half
-
ton
carcass
was
simply
discarded
as
waste
.
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