UN You Will Eat Bugs — and Like It - That is the actual title of the article

We need a sustainable option for feeding nearly 10 billion people. Creepy-crawlies could be the way.​

By Jessica Karl
March 5, 2024 at 10:43 PM UTC

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Picture this: It’s the year 2093. Your great, great grandaughter is hosting a dinner party for her friends tonight in honor of the total solar eclipse. She starts on the bug board, taking care to assemble the tinned locusts. The hot honey hornets are next. After that, it’s the scorpion kimchi and the ant guacamole. Then she takes the baked casu martzu — a Sardinian cheese that contains live insect larvae — out of the oven and tops it with faux caviar. Wanting to keep dessert simple, she drone-ordered some Micolino’s ice cream. Guests can top it with cricket sprinkles if they want.

If this future sounds far-fetched to you, fine. But it’s 2024, and we’ve already bulldozed our way through cheese plates, butter boards and hummus spreads. In 70 years, who’s to say we won’t have cockroach charcuterie?

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Italy’s deputy prime minister hopes he doesn’t live to see the day. “STOP insect flour-based foods in school canteens,” Matteo Salvini tweeted last month. But David Fickling says insect farming ought not to scare us so much. “Insects are highly efficient at converting waste matter into high-quality protein, making their consumption a potentially more sustainable way to feed a planet approaching 10 billion people,” he writes.

You’re not alone if that skeeves you out. “Whether it’s the grubs farmed by Dave Bautista in Blade Runner: 2049 or Charlton Heston in Soylent Green yelling that food is being made from ‘people,’ there are few things that provoke as visceral a reaction as the prospect that ecological disaster might force you to eat something gross,” he writes.

Just last year there was a dystopian conspiracy theory about governments forcing enslaved people to eat bugs. But these scary narratives couldn’t be further from the truth: “They're fine for snacking, but insect protein has its greatest potential as nutrient rich, climate-friendly livestock feed,” as Amanda Little has previously explained. By making animal food out of fly larvae and mealworms, poultry and livestock meat should become much more affordable for human consumption. Read the whole thing.

Bonus Ecological Disaster Reading: A hotter and more chaotic atmosphere is making it harder to build nuclear weapons and store waste safely. — Mark Gongloff

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Insects make for a terrible protein source, the only thing it has going for it is "its better than nothing". Its infinitely better to feed the masses of insects to chickens, and eat chicken eggs.

Besides, populations are declining, the biggest ones like China are crashing the hardest, peak population is now a meme for at least the next hundred years.
 
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So why not just make farming more efficient then instead of running some nasty PR campaign to make us eat bugs? None of the eat the bugs people can ever explain this since they're so wedded to their creepy dystopian future based on "sustainability." I mean most of the projected population growth is in countries where people eat bugs every day. Why do we expect them to start eating chicken or god forbid the dreaded worst meat of all, beef, which is LITERALLY destroying the planet!
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
Insects make for a terrible protein source, the only thing it has going for it is "its better than nothing". Its infinitely better to feed the masses of insects to chickens, and eat chicken eggs.

Besides, populations are declining, the biggest ones like China are crashing the hardest, peak population is now a meme for at least the next hundred years.
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Humans aren't made for eating bugs. There are plenty of animals that are, but humans aren't one of them. Humans only eat them out of desperation or novelty.

Consuming then for extended periods of time has devastatingly bad effects on a normal person's mental wellbeing.

They're mostly chitin, which gives no nutrition and can cause digestive issues. And any protein is in a very rough, hard to digest state that gives very little nutrition.

Poultry, Fish, and even reptiles could be fed the Bugs and THOSE could be eaten. But not bugs directly.


Of course the bug pushers know this. They don't plan on eating bugs themselves. They've earned Steaks, after all.
 
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Insect protein is not complete protein
Chitin is toxic
Chitin is immune activating and creates an inflammatory immune response , so anyone allergic to shellfish is likely to be allergic to it
On top of that, that immune response is increased when you get exposed to more of it - there’s a thing called ‘crab asthma’ seen at high rates in the shellfish processing industry. Humans encounter chitin mainly through parasites and diseases (mold, parasites etc and so this makes sense.)
It’s not energy efficient or ecologically efficient to have insects raised for human food
There already exists a way to turn insect protein into human food. It’s called a chicken.
Let me put it this way, I will eat you, bug pushers, before I eat the bugs. Putting that much ground up insect into the food chain will be a human health disaster. You could give hundreds of millions an allergic response to commonly encountered levels of chitin
 
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Invest in quail, chickens, and lizards. Remember, there's tons of small animals out there that can eat stuff useless to us humans, (such as insects and grass) and turn into food. Hell, you could unironically start this with a shoestring budget. Citizens from 3rd-world shitholes do it all the time!

And if someone out there wants to take those away from you so they can force you into their fetish. Be as unhinged as the 3rd worlders they import. In fact, you can make friends with 3rd worlders over this issue!
 
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