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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:

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theconversation.com

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 theconversation.com

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www.bloomberg.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.
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You WILL eat ze bugs, goy.
 
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Male Idiot said:
Shrimp can be degutted. You savage.

If you want me to eat bugs, genetically engineer bigger bugs that can be gutted. And also a cute moth pet.

The big beetles don't work. They grow very slowly ( 6 to 21 months, depending on species), and the larva are full of shit so they are only good for niggers.
They are also rare and picky eaters.

They are also strong. Imagine if you could ride one! On Mars!

Potato is also great but very efficient. But the bugs they are pushing is mostly chitin and shieeet.

Feed the journos raw stink beetles.
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Crickets are a pain in the butt to harvest in the amounts you would need to actually feed a society entirely on them. Even in cultures where bug eating was common, it wasn’t all they’d eat. Trying to get a society to subsist entirely on bugs is a meme. The crickets I mentioned above require a very temperature controlled space to multiply, and that alone makes it a hassle. If I’m going to eat bugs, I’ll stick to lobster and shrimp, because you can take the guts out easily and still be left with a fair amount of meat. With crickets, you’re eating the legs and wings too. If any creature should eat those kinds of bugs, it should be birds and cats, not humans.
 
Android raptor said:
Except there are big, meaty bugs just like there are big, meaty crustaceans. It's just they're most common near the equator, where they're been eaten for probably as long as humans have inhabited those areas.

Seriously, some of those big beetle larva qnd whickity grubs and shit put jumbo shrimp to shame with how big and meaty those things are.

Also who the fuck taking the time to extract the digestive tract of a damn shrimp or crawdad, just rip the tail off and enjoy, unless you didn't cook it properly all the germs have been killed.

Plus people straight up eat the digestive tracts of vertebrates. Ever heard of chitlins?
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You WILL eat the giant tarantula with the hairy bits singed off.
There’s a great David Attenborough one where he follows some very cheery forest tribe kids as they catch, impale and singe a tarantula before devouring it with great gusto.
To mass farm bugs it’ll need to be the smaller to midsize ones and that means a lot of chitin - it’s not very good for us . Maybe something like a weta would be big enough but those things are endangered
 
Otterly said:
You WILL eat the giant tarantula with the hairy bits singed off.
There’s a great David Attenborough one where he follows some very cheery forest tribe kids as they catch, impale and singe a tarantula before devouring it with great gusto.
To mass farm bugs it’ll need to be the smaller to midsize ones and that means a lot of chitin - it’s not very good for us . Maybe something like a weta would be big enough but those things are endangered
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Nah tarantulas are my pets. If someone else wants to eat them as long as they harvesting them substainiable it's cool, and they probably have been eaten by humans for as long as humans have lived where tarantulas live.

Tho tarantulas are arachnids, not insects.

Chitin is w/e, personally I'd rather deal with that than beef or pork tapeworms.
Tsukasa Kayoda said:
Slightly OT, but I once got a shrimp basket from Dairy Queen on a road trip that had the poop tubes intact.
I threw that shit out immediately.
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Throwing out perfectly good shrimp because they hadn't been degutted (something that doesn't matter as long as they're cooked properly) is one of thr most aggressively American things I've heard in a minute.
JambledUpWords said:
If any creature should eat those kinds of bugs, it should be birds and cats, not humans.
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Do I count as a bird
 
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Android raptor said:
Nah tarantulas are my pets. If someone else wants to eat them as long as they harvesting them substainiable it's cool, and they probably have been eaten by humans for as long as humans have lived where tarantulas live.

Tho tarantulas are arachnids, not insects.

Chitin is w/e, personally I'd rather deal with that than beef or pork tapeworms.

Throwing out perfectly good shrimp because they hadn't been degutted (something that doesn't matter as long as they're cooked properly) is one of thr most aggressively American things I've heard in a minute.

Do I count as a bird
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Pork also doeen't have worms if it is properly cooked.

Shrimp you can de-gut with your hand. With a roach... yeah you will need a magnifier and surgeon hands. And a lot of time.

The giant milipedes from the pre dinosaur era were cool.

Chinamen will also eat anything so its not a good idea.

I would try snake though. If properly cleaned, I will eat anything that isn't man, monkey, dog or cat. Maybe not hamsters. And definately not frogs, that brings Pepe's peepee poopoo curse.

Definately would eat dolphin or whale, or bear. I heard bear fat is really nice. Did ate one snake but it tasted like tequila. As did the scorpion.
I did not turn into a giant scorpion like in Drawn Together. Much sad.

Wild animals exist to be eaten. I would feel more guilt over a cow than a wild beast.
Bug burger? Call me when there is an elephant one.
 
Male Idiot said:
Pork also doeen't have worms if it is properly cooked.

Shrimp you can de-gut with your hand. With a roach... yeah you will need a magnifier and surgeon hands. And a lot of time.

The giant milipedes from the pre dinosaur era were cool.

Chinamen will also eat anything so its not a good idea.

I would try snake though. If properly cleaned, I will eat anything that isn't man, monkey, dog or cat. Maybe not hamsters.

Definately would eat dolphin or whale, or bear. I heard bear fat is really nice.
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I don't care what animals people eat as long as they're doing shit as substaniably and humanely as possible. I don't eat beef, pork, or chicken primarily cause I don't like that factory farm bullshit (also I've always preferred seafood anyway).

I'd eat probably any shellfish as long as it was cooked properly and not like, endangered or anything. Just throw some oysters straight from the ocean on a pan over a fire and give me some hot sauce, and I'm happy (and have experienced that very thing once, it was awesome).
 
Factory farming exists for seafood too, though.

The big idea is that with a roach you don't need to give it quality food. It will feed off a sewer, a perfect meal for goys.
 
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Drink the roach milk.

Also, relevant - sneed oils. They are everywhere, and you're already eating them.

 
SCSI said:
Scorpions rock. I need pictures, please. (If possible without doxing yourself, of course.)
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Its dangerous to go alone, take this
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Also I just gave her a superworm, so she's eating the bugs🐛 🪲
 
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1. Bugs are not scalable.
There is no way to make bugs a suitable replacement for existing protein sources, specifically meat, fish, eggs, and poultry. The amount of bugs you would need to feed even a single large city go well past anything resembling sustainability, and would result in sweeping malnutrition under the best of circumstances. This is on top of numerous existing shortcomings involved with switching to bugs, including widespread allergies, the fact that numerous religions cannot eat them at all under scripture, and the simple fact that it would require massive, sweeping changes to pretty much every sector of the economy food-wise to make happen. Bugs are simply a less viable product cost-effectiveness wise, and never will be more cost-effective than their alternatives: they have a really low survival rate under the best of circumstances, because they're fucking bugs. Crickets, under ideal settings, have an over 45% mortality rate. The most efficient known bug raised, Argentinian Cockroaches (which are raised as feeder insects), have about a 75% rate. For every three roaches that are harvestable, one never makes it that far.

2. Bugs are less efficient and just as polluting as conventional meat.
Most bugs for consumption are fed a diet of dry cereals, fruit, and vegetables - in other words, things that humans can eat. Multiple studies on industrial farming for mealworms has shown that they have repeatedly failed to match poultry for efficiency, and when fed diets of grain by-products, straw, and so on, they frequently died before reaching a harvestable size - in other words, you cannot simply feed the bugs crap and expect the bugs to be harvestable for food; you have to feed them good food to get any result. Moreover, insects are ectothermic, which means they need to be kept in climate-controlled environments, or they fucking die. That means heating and cooling elements running all day and night. Under the best of circumstances, the FCR for insects is still only on-par with Chickens, which can be raised literally everywhere (there is not a single county in the United States that does not raise them), which means that even if the bugs themselves are less-impactful environmentally than the chickens in the short term, everything done to make the fucking bugs edible is an order of magnitude worse.
 
Jaimas said:
1. Bugs are not scalable.
There is no way to make bugs a suitable replacement for existing protein sources, specifically meat, fish, eggs, and poultry. The amount of bugs you would need to feed even a single large city go well past anything resembling sustainability, and would result in sweeping malnutrition under the best of circumstances. This is on top of numerous existing shortcomings involved with switching to bugs, including widespread allergies, the fact that numerous religions cannot eat them at all under scripture, and the simple fact that it would require massive, sweeping changes to pretty much every sector of the economy food-wise to make happen. Bugs are simply a less viable product cost-effectiveness wise, and never will be more cost-effective than their alternatives: they have a really low survival rate under the best of circumstances, because they're fucking bugs. Crickets, under ideal settings, have an over 45% mortality rate. The most efficient known bug raised, Argentinian Cockroaches (which are raised as feeder insects), have about a 75% rate. For every three roaches that are harvestable, one never makes it that far.

2. Bugs are less efficient and just as polluting as conventional meat.
Most bugs for consumption are fed a diet of dry cereals, fruit, and vegetables - in other words, things that humans can eat. Multiple studies on industrial farming for mealworms has shown that they have repeatedly failed to match poultry for efficiency, and when fed diets of grain by-products, straw, and so on, they frequently died before reaching a harvestable size - in other words, you cannot simply feed the bugs crap and expect the bugs to be harvestable for food; you have to feed them good food to get any result. Moreover, insects are ectothermic, which means they need to be kept in climate-controlled environments, or they fucking die. That means heating and cooling elements running all day and night. Under the best of circumstances, the FCR for insects is still only on-par with Chickens, which can be raised literally everywhere (there is not a single county in the United States that does not raise them), which means that even if the bugs themselves are less-impactful environmentally than the chickens in the short term, everything done to make the fucking bugs edible is an order of magnitude worse.
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Yeah but as an additional option for animal protien I think it would be pretty neat to be able to get stuff made with crickets or mealworms or w/e at the store, without it being some massively overpriced yuppie bullshit.

Also certain regional/seasonal dishes involving bugs sound tasty, like these giant termites in Kenya(?) that are apparently everywhere at certain times of year, so people gather them up and pan fry them as street food and stuff. Saw a guy posting about it in a bug group once.
 
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