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.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Iron​

It can be challenging for vegetarians, vegans, or those eating mostly plants to get enough iron. Plants contain the non-heme type, which is not as bioavailable as the heme iron found in animal products.

“An iron deficiency like anemia will cause fatigue,” Gans said. “It’s not uncommon for someone whose diet is mostly plants to be anemic.”

You can get around 10–12 milligrams of non-heme iron per 3.5 ounces of crickets, which is more than the 8 milligrams recommended dietary allowance for iron for adult men and nearly the 18 milligrams RDA for most adult women.

This is more than twice the amount of iron found in a cup of spinach, which is the leafy green known for having a lot of the mineral. Non-heme iron is typically thought to not be easily absorbed for the human body to use. However, a few studies have shown that iron from insects — including crickets — was absorbed at similar rates as iron from beef.

What does this matter? Why would a vegan, who won't eat animals or even use honey, eat insects and why would anybody else choose to eat a fuckton of insects over 3.5 oz of chicken or beef?

 

[Lone MacReady]

They'll keep forcing the bugs, just like they'll keep forcing deadman switch-using EVs.

Nobody messes with my meat.

 

[Toolbox]

They’re still pushing the “Edible bugs” thing?

Is this the new “Climate change” or “Renewable Energy”?

More like the new "hemp as a replacement for wood" or "biodegradable plastic" it is a pure scam, plus a possible demoralization campaign. I would bet on it being more of an attempted grift by people trying to usurp the meat industry with a system much less efficient.

 

[Bungus Scrungus]

They keep having to try and support it, but can't come up with any compelling arguments. It is beyond pathetic at this point. It does feel like someone has just hired every article mill to produce this crap from a mix and match of the same talking points.

It unironically feels like they're all made by robots or some shit, like in a factory. It's fucking weird.

 

[Troonos]

Please, Jews. Seal me into my pod and pump bug burgers and garbage juice into my feeding tube.

 

[Keavy Rain]

It unironically feels like they're all made by robots or some shit, like in a factory. It's fucking weird.

In Andrew Yang’s book in suppprt of UBI he talked about articles being written by AI and how AI favors use in fields like Journalism, where they can make a script for the AI to fill out, so it’s entirely possible.

It’s equally as possible that a real human wrote this and is so bitchmade by their “superiors” that they are nothing more than a useful idiot.

 

[Toolbox]

In Andrew Yang’s book in suppprt of UBI he talked about articles being written by AI and how AI favors use in fields like Journalism, where they can make a script for the AI to fill out, so it’s entirely possible.

It’s equally as possible that a real human wrote this and is so bitchmade by their “superiors” that they are nothing more than a useful idiot.

At this point I have no doubts GPT-3 is being used to generate most of a modern opinion piece or even news article and then minor issues are edited out by actual humans. Just use talk to transformer or an older version of ai dungeon, when these systems work they really work. Article mills can fire most of their staff while still producing even more trash, it is a win win for them.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

They're not even pretending anymore, huh?

 

[XYZpdq]

I'm kinda meh on seabugs like lobster and stuff, I think I've tried a chex mix-ed up mealworm or cricket once or twice and they were unremarkable.
but holy shit the EAT THE BUGS shit has absolutely put me off ever considering eating bugs and I might have been open to the idea

Flavor vehicle is cope for 'tastes like bland unappealing shit unless it's saturated in sauces and spices.'

yeah, white meat poultry is pretty bland

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Lol you think I'll chow down on beetles and crickets to "save the planet" while you continue to enjoy your beef brisket, you fucking kike? Think again.

 

[LaxerBRO]

I will kill all the reporters in the US so that we can decrease demand and increase supply to not eat bugs.

 

[Toolbox]

I will kill all the reporters in the US so that we can decrease demand and increase supply to not eat bugs.

Cool it with the fedposting just a tad, perhaps.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Funny how it's not the food we should be eating.

 

[I-chi]

I hate the Antichrist with all of my heart and soul, for it belongs to God and His only Son, Jesus Christ.

You will burn in the lake of fire, heeb, with the rest of your traitorous, Pharisee descendants.

 

[BelUwUga]

Davidowitz

Fuck off, smallhat tribesman. You and yours sit down and eat the bugs. More steak, hell more barbecue, more pulled pork, more spare ribs, for me.

They can't eat the bug though you antisemite! It's not kosher. No! No asking why they're pushing it on anybody else then.
Edit: Can someone help me come up with a slightly less on-the-nose (kek) phrase than "Eat the pig Schlomo"? I remember enough from FFA I am pretty sure I can make some great swine/pork copyright working entirely from memory.
Edit 2: I understand it's probably going to make any actual graphic designers reeeeeeeeeee, but if you spend any time in agriculture you know this is something that would absolutely come from some PR agency. I think I managed to soft name (((them))) without being outright objectionable. If anyone has ideas, I think I might producing a lot of these to spam "You WILL eat the bug" posts. Here we go:

 

[SCSI]

At this point I have no doubts GPT-3 is being used to generate most of a modern opinion piece or even news article and then minor issues are edited out by actual humans. Just use talk to transformer or an older version of ai dungeon, when these systems work they really work. Article mills can fire most of their staff while still producing even more trash, it is a win win for them.

Yup. Spend enough time with GPT-3 and its relatives like the FairSeq/XGLM family and you'll be able to spot ML writing fingerprints everywhere in English-language news media. At this point, I assume any article under one page is likely machine written, and I'm seeing more that are longer that show signs of being botted. If you look around at some of the smaller hosting services that offer commercial API access to different transformers, a lot of them specifically advertise their use for article and ad copywriting, and some note they have version that are specifically fine-tuned for those tasks to improve performance. Fucking waste of such a fascinating technology.

 

[FunPosting101]

>>eat the bugs
No.
>>live in the pod
No.
>>suck the girl cock
No. Also, girls do not have cocks, you fucking mental case.

With that out of the way, I want to point out something that has been said before in these threads; If insect-based foodstuffs ever become cheap enough, the poultry industry will buy all that stuff up enmass and use it for chicken and turkey feed instead.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Cool it with the fedposting just a tad, perhaps.

Obvious joke is joke.

 

[LordofTendons]

I'm going to start a Cult of the Woodchipper. We all gather to discuss the Gospel of Achilles, which says we do not eat the bugs, we live in big houses not pods, girls have vaginas, boys have penises, and we eat steak and veg while we do this. Who we feed into the Holy Woodchipper and why is our business and no one else's.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

No. You eat them.