Is eating The Bugs™ really all that bad?

[TokiBun]

I actually wanted to eat fried bugs before it was cool, as a cheap protein source, however the fucking things are super expensive.

1kg of them cost 140€, do you know how minced meat I can buy for that?

So yeah, would eat the bugs, but stuffing food into cows and pigs and then eating them seems to be more efficient

This is why you got to start your own bug farm. Do that and you'll print money!

 

[Town Drunk]

OP is off his meds, but I'll post anyway, because I want to rant.

I'm kind of sick of the food snobbery in America. Even the cheapest TV dinners boast having white meat chicken, because eating a thigh or drumstick is now beneath us for some reason.

I also think it comes down to laziness in food preperation, as the primes are so easy to cook any retard can do it. People are missing out on the unique flavors, textures, etc with eating less desirable cuts. It does kind of piss me off that these cuts fetch premium prices, because it has become a niche thing to eat them.

As far as bugs, on the surface, there is nothing inherently wrong with it, but when the elites tell you eat bugs, it is because they want to eat Waigu, while YOU eat bugs. You get to bike to work, while they take jets.

I'm sure there are plenty of dishes using insects that are delicious, it's the sentiment behind it.

Reminder that lobster used to be fed to prisoners and slaves so much that they complained about it.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

for the record bug eating doesnt bother me as a concept and i have tried things like the crickets and mealworms out of curiosity. i dont like the idea of forcing eating bugs onto other people who dont want to much like the idea of forcing people to eat anything they dont want to.

 

[Saint Agustin]

Is not about nutrition to me, is more about choice.

Do I really want to eat Ze Bugz? No. I do not.

 

[GNU Abyss]

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

Yeah. Edgy teenagers or people so retarded and broken they can only get along with creatures way down the evolution chain.

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.

You take the life of an animal as a necessity and you do it in a humane manner, trying to avoid unnecessary pain and stress. This is why civilized people have a problem with the way Muslims and Jews do their animal slaughter according to savage desert people traditions. Some empathy even for livestock meant to be consumed. Your true crime watchers example, I'm guessing, has to do with completely needless and cruel killing of pets. Obviously people are going to be even more sad about that. Pets aren't livestock and serve a completely different purpose.

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.

I don't think people who cry about dogs getting shot by niggers and trigger happy cops spare many thoughts to cows and chickens, at least not in the same way. I have respect for Jainist monks. Monks in general actually, especially if the monastery is completely self-sufficient. Vegans? Not so much. Just another flavor of consoomer, but with cartoonish delusions about saving the world.

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.

There are trace amounts of insect parts in chocolate, so I'm already eating the bugs akshually. Unless my local farmers start 3D printing chicken and pork from ground up bugs, I'm definitely gonna notice.

Thoughts?

If you don't have any psychological conditions and you're not at Ralph levels of xannie and alcohol abuse, my condolences. It's over.

 

[Makoto Niijima]

How do plants grow ? With water , soil , fertilizer etc right ? What's fertilizer made out of ? exactly .... Let's go over to the carniVOREs , Cow, lambs sheep , etc . They eat grass right? How does grass grow? Via Sun , Soil fertilizer etc .

Fish ? Oh yeah those niggers eat bugs already , so technically you eat the fish that ate the bugs.

Chickens? They love the bugs, They eat the bugs.

So uhhh yeah ... The Food chain

 

[Ethan Ralph Is 5'1"]

As far as bugs, on the surface, there is nothing inherently wrong with it, but when the elites tell you eat bugs, it is because they want to eat Waigu, while YOU eat bugs. You get to bike to work, while they take jets.

Yeah, this is my main complaint with it all, tbh.
In a not-so-distant future, the general public being made to eat the bugs isn't all that bad in and of itself.
I could eat nothing but fried rats, if it meant surviving.
But we all know that the elite won't be eating no bugs.
They'll have luxuries that no one of us have.

As long as it doesn't come to drinking cow piss like Indians it's good enough.
That's the last stand.

 

[souschef]

Eating for survival is fine, eating for gluttony is not

That's my opinion

 

[Ethan Ralph Is 5'1"]

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.

You need to get on the fish train, dude.

"Mackerel is a nutrient-rich oily fish with numerous health benefits. It's an excellent source of protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and various vitamins and minerals like vitamin B12, vitamin D, and selenium. These nutrients contribute to heart health, brain function, and overall well-being."

Canned mackerel is in every Lidl store.
I think it's the same product that we get in Denmark, imported to the US.
Eating three small cans of this on bread per week, will drastically improve your well-being.
It's slightly more expensive in the US than in Denmark due to import taxes and so on, but it's well worth it.

 

[Nopenopenope]

I have no intention of eating the bugs because I find the idea disgusting. But I also know that's just my western world view, I'm sure many Thai people etc think it's fucked up we eat chicken tendies where little to nothing is natural, even the chicken which has been hormone boosted.

Plus it's cultural, the countries where they eat bugs, it came from the fact the climate is constantly optimum for insects so they are constantly on the menu. Where I live, the bugs all die/go into hibernation or whatever they do when it gets cold. So we grew crops that could overwinter/store well and also fed the animals low energy/human incompatible grass etc to turn into meat.

I'll tell you this though, I will never do anything some soy save the world faggot says, so as long as they are on the side of eating bugs I never will be. Eating bugs is offensive to my culture, but it's white culture so of course it's not important.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

You need to get on the fish train, dude.

"Mackerel is a nutrient-rich oily fish with numerous health benefits. It's an excellent source of protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and various vitamins and minerals like vitamin B12, vitamin D, and selenium. These nutrients contribute to heart health, brain function, and overall well-being."

Canned mackerel is in every Lidl store.
I think it's the same product that we get in Denmark, imported to the US.
Eating three small cans of this on bread per week, will drastically improve your well-being.
It's slightly more expensive in the US than in Denmark due to import taxes and so on, but it's well worth it.

I absolutely believe the nutritious benefits of fatty fish such as sardines and anchovies, one who make most people curl their nose.

But I shall add mackerel to my list as well, thank you

 

[Grundlejungle]

I think normalizing eating bugs will be disastrous for funny people. Think of how many comedians got their start eating bugs on the playground, if everyone's eating bugs then it's no longer special anymore. Insectophagia should be limited to circus people and circus adjacent people. I'm tired of the white liberal trying to erase our culture.

 

[Ah ha']

The real ploy of forcing people to “eat ze bugs” is to make them vegan. Which is just as bad.

Be a vegetarian now and eat lots of cheese and milk!

 

[Black Man Underwear]

Eat a few cockroaches and get back to me.

 

[Lycalopex]

I just don't like cricket flour, man. It's not even about it being a bug, I just don't like it.

 

[Señora Airi]

I do love me some shrimp.
Would like to try the locust and honey diet. Need to get on that John the Baptist diet.

 

[ADN_VIII]

I've had some bugs in the past. It's like really crunchy chips with an unpleasant soft center. Dad challenged me to eat them and said if he could do it in ranger school I could do it too. I didn't puke, somehow, but I wouldn't eat them again. If it was like a processed protein powder I wouldn't mind it since at that point the unpleasant texture is gone.

I'd also add that I ate bugs raw, so if they were cooked I wouldn't know if that changes anything. Apparently if you need them for dietary reasons, like in the apocalypse, termites are apparently pretty protein rich but I haven't done much reading on the subject for what I hope are obvious reasons.

 

[The Repeated Meme]

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

 

[Tablet County]

I don't know where the "shrimps and crabs are bugs" thing came from, but it's totally propaganda.

 

[Male Idiot]

Paging @Otterly for shrimp chemistry.

They are both arthrolods so shrimp allergy would come in too.

The problem with bugs is that they can't be easily gutted. You are eating shit, chitin and some flesh. If you like eating shit saaaar you are Indian.

Perhaps in the future we will have giant bugs that can be properly processed into food. But currently their exoskeletons and respiratory system hardcap their growth on land.