Also reminds me of what I posted in the "pro-bughive channel" thread:
The secret desire of a soy: be Borg IRL?
(Borg even have those regenerative pods)
As a fourth generation Potato Famine and third generation gulag survivor, I feel your pain, my Hebrews of persecution color.
So many of these are either straight up statements with no actual proof to back them up or just completely dumb. Like the first one, sure, there may be 2 billion people eating bugs, but is that out of choice or out of extreme poverty and trying to avoid starvation? Also 'bugs can't make us sick', many bugs carry parasites and diseases that we don't normally come across all that often (unless happen to be in the areas were such things are endemic), wouldn't moving to solely eating them eventually expose us to such things and potentially create worse illnesses than could be found from meat? Considering people get lax on the health/cleanliness of mass farmed animals, I doubt insects would be held to higher safety/cleanliness/preparation standards after a while either.
The fact they have to push this bug bullshit with blatant propaganda and outright lies makes it inherently suspicious. The claim that insects can't possibly transmit foodborne illnesses is pure magical thinking.
Desperate rabbis everywhere are trying to extend their Holohoax grift, that's why.
I thought it looked a bizarre orgy of bent over stick figures fucking each other's feet. Do I get to be the boss of Nickelodeon now?
Yeah working at Starbucks is kinda lame and you deal with dumb customers, but don’t they give some pretty good benefits from working there?
Actually I think there might be something to it...
I thought generational trauma was like, abused children sometimes grow up to be child abusers, either on purpose or accidentally, leading their kids to become traumatized abusers.
It's not as literal as people think, but kids really are like a blank hard drive with a command line OS absorbing and learning everything they can.
Also on this topic i spoke a few days with a friend of mine about this and essentially, outside of all of this there is also the logistics involved. Bringing up so many bugs for consumption will most likely require more food than what they will provide. A cow, even as people decry, is one of the most efficient ways of producing protein along with chickens and pigs (just regular farm animals). On bugs, we don't know yet, but in many cases, outside of the health risks, there is also the question of how much feed you will need in order to have optimal production bug protein. In some cases, it's out of the question due to bugs growing extremely slowly while in others while they grow quickly, their food consumption would be too high to be sustainable.
Not to mention, we have centuries' worth of exposure to the diseases present in common meats. This isn't the case for bugs, especially in the west, so there's a meaningful risk of us encountering some nasty things we've never encountered previously, because we weren't eating fucking bugs.
To be clear, epigenetic stress is real (in that your body has some quirks based on the lives your grandparents lived, even if you never knew them) but this is not that.
Make sure to reiterate this point whenever somebody tries to compare eating crustaceans to bugs. You don't eat the whole lobster, you break open the shell and eat the meat inside; can't do that with tiny little cockroaches.
Humans. Can't. Digest. Chitin.
I'm going to scream this from the hills until it's common knowledge, goddammit.
