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- Nov 30, 2021
There's like 3 layers at least to why everyone is extra resistant to the "eating the bugs" suggestion.
The first one is that bugs are viscerally disgusting to people. People could get over this but it'd take a lot of reprogramming because bugs are on the whole ugly and tasteless. You can probably make bugs palatable, and indeed we eat stuff with cochineal in it, French people eat snails, etc. but these are still edge cases.
Then there's just the concept of the elites forcing us plebs to scrape the bottom of the barrel for animal products, while ostensibly getting to enjoy a higher standard of living and still having pork or beef. This is the main driving force of the hatred imo. Elements of the humiliation ritual are there too. People will call anything goyslop, and is there anything more quintessentially "feeding our livestock" than processed bug goo?
The third layer is kind of faint, but there's a bit of the old "I fucking love science!" reddit faggotry attached to the phenomenon because all the "we should be eating bugs" articles from journos are written with the "we should have been doing this years ago! efficient protein lol!" perspective, which is the same angle as soy meal replacement people. Everyone who isn't a fartsniffer hates this kind of utilitarian smug bullshit.
The first one is that bugs are viscerally disgusting to people. People could get over this but it'd take a lot of reprogramming because bugs are on the whole ugly and tasteless. You can probably make bugs palatable, and indeed we eat stuff with cochineal in it, French people eat snails, etc. but these are still edge cases.
Then there's just the concept of the elites forcing us plebs to scrape the bottom of the barrel for animal products, while ostensibly getting to enjoy a higher standard of living and still having pork or beef. This is the main driving force of the hatred imo. Elements of the humiliation ritual are there too. People will call anything goyslop, and is there anything more quintessentially "feeding our livestock" than processed bug goo?
The third layer is kind of faint, but there's a bit of the old "I fucking love science!" reddit faggotry attached to the phenomenon because all the "we should be eating bugs" articles from journos are written with the "we should have been doing this years ago! efficient protein lol!" perspective, which is the same angle as soy meal replacement people. Everyone who isn't a fartsniffer hates this kind of utilitarian smug bullshit.