Eat The Bugs - Megathread - 🪱🪳🦗🪲

I think it's high time we create a separate thread just to throw in the unrelenting wave of articles, pushing for people to eat the bugs.

In the last few couple months, we've had articles like these:

More people are eating bugs – but is it ethical to farm insects for food?

Insect farming is growing in popularity as an alternative to traditional livestock and feed production. A scholar evaluates what that means in terms of trillions of insect lives.

theconversation.com

Why Bugs Must Be a Bigger Part of the Human Food Chain

They're fine for snacking, but insect protein has its greatest potential as nutrient rich, climate-friendly livestock feed.

www.bloomberg.com

You WILL eat ze bugs, goy.

 

[s0mbra]

This wouldn't be the San Diego Zoo now would it?

No. I'd never set foot in that godforsaken hellhole

 

[Suburban Bastard]

8 months later, anyone actually being forced at gunpoint to eat it or is it still a forced meme?

 

[Moosebonker]

let's bring it back to real.

Actually Foods is on a mission to renew Canadians’ relationship with “healthy” food.

www.actuallyfoods.com

 

[Übertroon]

8 months later, anyone actually being forced at gunpoint to eat it or is it still a forced meme?

You don't seem to realize how the normalisation process works. First they'll push through media that eating bugs is normal and healthy, your friends, neighbors, family will start parroting the latest NPR article talking about how yummy and nitritious bugs are.
Then it will become mandatory in schools, your kid will return home talking about how he had a roach burger for lunch.
If you complain you hate the environment and is personally killing the planet.
Soon private corporations will virtue signal by providing bug products in the store, often without telling you. Eventually you'll go out to eat with some friends and family, it's all bug products

 

[Kulee Baba]

let's bring it back to real.

Actually Foods is on a mission to renew Canadians’ relationship with “healthy” food.

www.actuallyfoods.com

Is there any fucking doubt that these will be way more expensive than Cheetos and the countless similar puff snacks that line your Supermarkets?

And the first ingredient listed is CORN. So just like Cheetos.

What a stupid fucking name too, ACTUALLY FOODS. Yeah okay and Sugar comes from Sugar Cane (and Corn Syrup comes from Corn) so I guess Coca-Cola is always Actually A Food. What isn't actually a food that humans consume? Smarties and PEZ?

 

[Suburban Bastard]

You don't seem to realize how the normalisation process works. First they'll push through media that eating bugs is normal and healthy, your friends, neighbors, family will start parroting the latest NPR article talking about how yummy and nitritious bugs are.
Then it will become mandatory in schools, your kid will return home talking about how he had a roach burger for lunch.
If you complain you hate the environment and is personally killing the planet.
Soon private corporations will virtue signal by providing bug products in the store, often without telling you. Eventually you'll go out to eat with some friends and family, it's all bug products

First they'll push through media

And that’s why everyone saw John Carter

that eating bugs is normal and healthy

Okay, is there anything saying otherwise? Because I’m pretty sure there’s cultures that have been doing it for god knows how long and still haven’t died.

your friends, neighbors, family will start parroting the latest NPR article talking about how yummy and nitritious bugs are.

Even my most left wing coworkers do nothing but bitch about the media when the topic is brought up, you have as much knowledge on average people as your typical NEET shut in. Also nice typo LOL

Then it will become mandatory in schools, your kid will return home talking about how he had a roach burger for lunch.

Considering some schools get their food from the same places that make prison food, that would be a fucking improvement. Also if junior enjoyed how this hypothetical perfected roach burger tastes, and it’s proven to be healthy, then what’s the big deal? We eat meat because it tastes good, could do for an alternative that tastes identical without the fat.

Soon private corporations will virtue signal by providing bug products in the store, often without telling you.

You can just check the ingredients retards, does your fucking mom shop for you?

Eventually you'll go out to eat with some friends and family, it's all bug products

Gonna be honest, you’re giving me the same vibe as the Facebook boomers about a plant based sausage being an added choice.

 

[Übertroon]

And that’s why everyone saw John Carter

Okay, is there anything saying otherwise? Because I’m pretty sure there’s cultures that have been doing it for god knows how long and still haven’t died.

Even my most left wing coworkers do nothing but bitch about the media when the topic is brought up, you have as much knowledge on average people as your typical NEET shut in. Also nice typo LOL

Considering some schools get their food from the same places that make prison food, that would be a fucking improvement. Also if junior enjoyed how this hypothetical perfected roach burger tastes, and it’s proven to be healthy, then what’s the big deal? We eat meat because it tastes good, could do for an alternative that tastes identical without the fat.

You can just check the ingredients retards, does your fucking mom shop for you?

Gonna be honest, you’re giving me the same vibe as the Facebook boomers about a plant based sausage being an added choice.

If the media can normalize sodomy they can normalize bug eating. You seem to be of the naive mind that the propaganda will stop after the first few laughs. Everyone laughed at the faggots and troons as well at first.

The rest of you post is a bunch of non arguments. There are several studies saying bugs are not healthy food, the chitin staying in your body and damaging your lungs like asbestos, leading to increased cancer risks. Niggers in Africa eat it, but being able to eat and survive for a day is not the same as thriving. Bugs are generally regarded as a emergency food stock for a reason.

Also I can check for foodstuffs containing bug all I please, the problem is there are too many people like yourself that will just accept being fed inferior products cause you're told to accept it, making it acceptable to limit existing available products and start rationing normal meat

 

[Kiwisee]

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"You DO trust the Science®, don't you goy?"

Any “environmentalist” who pushes the narrative that bug eating will somehow be better for the environment is a moron who doesn’t understand how the food web works in the ecosystem. They’re just a moronic short sighted climate activist who never took any natural science course to see why eating the bugs is a bad fucking idea.

Spoiler alert: bugs are just as important as plants in that they are the backbone of the majority of food chains in nature. Several species of rodents rely on bugs, and in turn several birds of prey rely on the rodents to sustain themselves.

Think about how many bugs you’d need to kill a day in order to reach the 2000 calorie minimal requirement for an average adult per day and you’ll see why no amount of factory production is going to be able to meet the demands of entire towns alone. At least a billion different species would need to die a day just to feed the entire population of NYC.

In the process, because it would be impossible for captive bugs to keep up with reproducing enough larvae to meet the demands of millions of people, you’d have millions being rounded up from the wild everyday just to reach the needed quota.

Which takes food away from several small animals, and would cause those animals to die of starvation.

Then, when those rodents start to die off, many birds of prey and wild cats will start to kneel over from starvation. It’ll cause a chain reaction of mass starvation in the natural world in no time, all because some billionaires and their stupid climate activists were too short sighted to fucking think about the consequences of pushing dystopian shit like this onto the masses.

Oh and not to mention, many species of bugs play a very important role in decomposition which helps keep the soil healthy. Guess what will happen if they were removed from the equation?

Climate activists don’t fucking know Jack shit about the natural world, human nature or fucking anything outside of the concrete deserts they live in. Which is precisely why I refuse to even call them environmentalist; every single one of their policies have done nothing except hurt the ecosystem more.

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

Think about how many bugs you’d need to kill a day in order to reach the 2000 calorie minimal requirement for an average adult per day and you’ll see why no amount of factory production is going to be able to meet the demands of entire towns alone.

inb4 "big yikes friendo, you don't need to consume so many calories! 1000 calories is more than enough!"

 

[Otterly]

The Bible forbids pork too, yet we have no issue with it today. Also, certain species of arthropods were allowed:
“Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.” Leviticus 11:21-23

I’m sure someone already has but it would be interesting to parse those things out and correspond them to things which transmit disease or did transmit disease regularly in the area. Pork is notorious for disease, some pretty nasty ones as well and pigs eat trash and crap so there’s decent logic behind a pork ban. Nowadays we can keep them cleaner so it’s less issue, but there are a LOT of diseases that can be caught from eating or just being around pigs. Flu for example reassorts in wildfowl and hogs. This is one reason why most strains originate in china. Terrible animal husbandry, crowding, a billion human hosts etc that plus wildfowl everywhere and it’s a time bomb for disease. Shellfish are very prone to a number of toxin accumulations - algal blooms for example can lead to shellfish being incredibly poisonous. Places that are hot like the Red Sea would be susceptible to this. There’s logic behind Leviticus- it’s a set of rules for keeping people healthy and civilised in a tribal, hot area in a time before refrigeration.
Anyway. Insects aren’t even that good at converting energy to protein. They’re no more efficient than a chicken is.
Here’s an interesting article about it

https://time.com/3824917/crickets-sustainable-protein/

https://archive.ph/AX0Vs

They’re also not kosher or halal (apart from locusts according to a kiwi last week.) and I don’t think they’re a complete protein source either, although I looked for the source I saw that in and all I can see are EAT THE BUGS THEY GREAT articles now.
It’s also likely that they will be as allergenic as shellfish are to some.
Still, if the BSE thing taught us anything it’s that feeding ground up slop from animal sources to other animals that’s not their normal food has no consequences whatsoever

 

[Suburban Bastard]

If the media can normalize sodomy they can normalize bug eating. You seem to be of the naive mind that the propaganda will stop after the first few laughs. Everyone laughed at the faggots and troons as well at first.

The rest of you post is a bunch of non arguments. There are several studies saying bugs are not healthy food, the chitin staying in your body and damaging your lungs like asbestos, leading to increased cancer risks. Niggers in Africa eat it, but being able to eat and survive for a day is not the same as thriving. Bugs are generally regarded as a emergency food stock for a reason.

Also I can check for foodstuffs containing bug all I please, the problem is there are too many people like yourself that will just accept being fed inferior products cause you're told to accept it, making it acceptable to limit existing available products and start rationing normal meat

Nothing wrong with sodomy

The rest of you post is a bunch of non arguments.

You got no argument, got it.

There are several studies saying bugs are not healthy food, the chitin staying in your body and damaging your lungs like asbestos, leading to increased cancer risks.

And there's hundreds of others saying they have health benefits, also lol as everything doesn't cause cancer.

Also I can check for foodstuffs containing bug all I please, the problem is there are too many people like yourself that will just accept being fed inferior products cause you're told to accept it, making it acceptable to limit existing available products and start rationing normal meat

And you aren't going to do a damn thing about it

 

[Übertroon]

Nothing wrong with sodomy

You got no argument, got it.

And there's hundreds of others saying they have health benefits, also lol as everything doesn't cause cancer.

And you aren't going to do a damn thing about it

Yeah, you did give off very strong faggot vibes.
And no, a study saying there are proteins in bugs does not disprove the study saying a long term diet on bug meat will make you deathly ill.

And yes, there is no argument to "my kid will eat bug meat and love it", there's no point arguing with your servile attitude

 

[Suburban Bastard]

And no, a study saying there are proteins in bugs does not disprove the study saying a long term diet on bug meat will make you deathly ill.

"That research is false, the ones I select are my bible"
Quite irrational soon-to-be-bug-eater.

 

[Übertroon]

"That research is false, the ones I select are my bible"
Quite irrational soon-to-be-bug-eater.

You're a midwit if you can't realise that bugs being a source of protein and long term dangerous for human consumption can both be equally true.
Fast food is also a good source of protein, until you get stomach cancer at the age of 60

 

[Suburban Bastard]

You're a midwit if you can't realise that bugs being a source of protein and long term dangerous for human consumption can both be equally true.

And therefore why it won’t be enforced.

 

[Ahriman]

 

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[Narcotics]

I'm not opposed to eating insects personally, I just despise that bankers are pushing it for the commoners even though they will continue to eat filet mignon. A quick question: can crickets actually be appetizing? I've tried them once, and it was like a small bit of flavorless protein encased in popcorn kernels.

Late reply, but all it depends on 2 things, condiments and personal opinion.
As i said above, one thing that i noticed is that most of the times they make no attempt to make them more delectable, one big mistake is eating them raw, not only because just like with raw meat you could get a myriad of sickness and parasites, but becase they are indeed somewhat flavorless (I don't know if this only happens here, but all the raw crickets i've ate actually had an acidic, lemon-like short burst of flavour when you first bite into them).
In the photo of my post you can see how ze bugs look somewhat red, this is because they're toasted and covered in chilli powder and salt, add lemon (and sauce if you want) and you'll have something that's actually decent to my eyes. (There's not only crickets, i've tried worms, ants, hell, even a small scorpion once, each one has it's trick)
But most importantly, it depends on one's personal taste and opinion, as i said eating bugs here is not as taboo as it is in the US for example (that doesn't mean i eat ze bugs every day, if something maybe once or twice a month). Bugs are fine for me, i can eat them, but i prefer meat.

 

[Android raptor]

let's bring it back to real.

Actually Foods is on a mission to renew Canadians’ relationship with “healthy” food.

www.actuallyfoods.com

I want it but it sounds like overpriced yuppie bullshit

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Rare based Stonetoss comic.

Forreal crustaceans and insects are both arthropods and edible as long as you prepare them properly

Also bugs are rad AF in general and I refuse to consider existing without them in my life.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

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