Is eating The Bugs™ really all that bad?

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Ethan Ralph Is 5'1"

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Apropos of nothing, but do you know the whole "animal lover misanthrope" thing?

Where all of these true crime chicks and dudes are crying about a dog being killed, but have no such empathy for a human life in the same way.
It's not even only the true crime watchers, but everyone in general. "NOT MY HECKIN' PUPPERS, NOT THE PUPPARINO!".
A random house pet is sacred to them and much more innocent than a human being.
It's a total sickness. A sickness only possible in a globe-spanning civilization that we currently find ourselves in.
Where no one is forced to come to terms with taking the life of an animal because it's all done for them in huge slaughter factories.

And it enables them to switch that part of their brain off, and become retarded hypocrites, feasting on meat as long as it's done out of sight.
It's sick to be more sickened by the death of an animal than that of a human.
I have huge amounts of respect for practicing vegans than for meat eaters crying about the fate of animals that they're going to be CONSOOMING anyway, as long as the process is not an inconvenience to their psyche.

When it comes to the inevitable future of "eating the bugs".

We won't really be privy to the process that goes into growing the bugs, so it might as well be the same deal.
Out of sight, out of mind.
And you're going to be eating The Bugs™ regardless.

Thoughts?
 
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Ethan Ralph Is 5'1 said:
Apropos of nothing, but do you know the whole "animal lover misanthrope" thing?

Where all of these true crime chicks and dudes are crying about a dog being killed, but have no such empathy for a human life in the same way.
It's not even only the true crime watchers, but everyone in general. "NOT MY HECKIN' PUPPERS, NOT THE PUPPARINO!".
A random house pet is sacred to them and much more innocent than a human being.
It's a total sickness. A sickness only possible in a globe-spanning civilization that we currently find ourselves in.
Where no one is forced to come to terms with taking the life of an animal because it's all done for them in huge slaughter factories.
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I think some people are just really disillusioned by humanity at this point so it's not and to imagine their reaction. The dog had nothing to do with the crime. Like a child it's an innocent bystander in whatever insanity went down. A lot of the true crime community are attention whores anyway. Why even give them the time of day? That's what they want. Watch "He Was Mostly Harmless" and "Crime Scene: The Vanishing of Elisa Lam". A bunch of autistic attention whores ready to ruin people's lives so they can appear like irl detectives to their brethren.

Ethan Ralph Is 5'1 said:
It's sick to be more sickened by the death of an animal than that of a human.
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It's not a contest. Let people be outraged at whatever. It doesn't really matter anyway.

Ethan Ralph Is 5'1 said:
We won't really be privy to the process that goes into growing the bugs, so it might as well be the same deal.
Out of sight, out of mind.
And you're going to be eating The Bugs™ regardless.
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I'm not eating the bugs. And I'm well aware of the horrors of factory farming. I don't eat much meat and that's one of the reasons. I try to keep it to the bare minimum for nutritional value. It's honestly not even that tasty to me. I only like chicken.

Loony tunes like PETA may or may not skip the bug farming outrage. It depends on whether or not the industry gets big enough for them to attention whore off of it. But bugs are not part of food culture in the US. It's a very niche thing that's not going to take off like the matcha trend or putting pea protein in everything. Due to allergies and religious restrictions bugs would have to be clearly labeled as an ingredient to avoid lawsuits. So you can just avoid it. It's not gonna take off.
 
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The problem of quantity. You'd need the industry and infrastructure to grow billions upwards to trillions of them to feed a country by RNV, when you can already achieve the same results with the current meat industry, you've also got to contend with bugs having different bacteria that would make humans ill when consumed in those large quantities.
Ethan Ralph Is 5'1 said:
It's sick to be more sickened by the death of an animal than that of a human.
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I care far more about UK red squirrels than I do the entire biomass we call india. I would wipe india of the face of the planet to protect just one of these squirrels as those squirrels are far worthier of life than any indian person.
 
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"True crime fans are jaded and care more about hurt dogs than people, but they don't talk about how we don't treat livestock well. Also, we're going to eat the bugs and the bugs won't be farmed ethically."
8/10 schizo post, you need to blame the gangster computer god.
 
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Hey I know who wrote this post!
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Nice try gecker you can't fool me!
 
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The issue is that most of this bug shit that is being sold is ground up bugs.
That consists largely of their shells and exoskeletons which are inedible.
Nobody is bothering to remove that crap before selling bug meat.
That extremely unhealthy, especially when it's supposed to be a complete replacement for other kinds of meat.
 
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Dysnomia said:
Due to allergies and religious restrictions bugs would have to be clearly labeled as an ingredient to avoid lawsuits.
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The number one reason that widespread consumption of insect protein hasn't become mainstream in civilized countries is the risk of horrific parasitic infections: tapeworms etc.


Even boiling doesn't fully eliminate all the risks.

It's the same reason I pretty much gave up on all pork products. Sure, ham is delicious, but you're always running the risk of trichinosis, no matter how well-cooked. It's statistically a hundred times worse with insects.
 
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I am surprised nobody has pointed out the difference between mammal protein and insect protein.

The cow for example was bred to be extremely nutritious and tasty. Now that sounds gross, but cows live much better lives on a ranch than they ever would in nature: limitless food and water, safety, and they are always slaughtered humanly as per FDA, USDA, or your local governments standards.

A bug tho? Think of a shrimp for example. Their protein was not meant to keep them ambulatory on land against earths gravity. They simply float around. And so their muscles are not nearly as dense or nutritious as land-dwelling animals. And with the exception of chickens, turkeys, and other plump fowls, the staple of a humans diet should be terrestrial “higher-order” animal protein. (I can’t find the chart but it goes insect, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird, mammal)

I don’t know much about terrestrial insect consumption by humans, but crickets in Thailand are always just snacks to tide you over until the real meal. Same with amphibious frog legs in France. Those are just delicacies and appetizers, not the main course or staple of their diet. You could not survive on crickets alone.

Now fish, on the other hand, we have seen Polynesians literally cross oceans subsisting on fish protein. I am willing to admit I don’t know much about the nutrition of fish meat.
 
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