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


Just not like this. Source: Canva

A Bug’s Lifehttps://archive.ph/o/bqukb/https://twitter.com/AGoldmund/status/1765013873948598610
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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?



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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[ChrisIsGay]

No. Fuck you kike.

 

[JosephStalin]

No. Just, no.

Agree there's very little chance of the population getting to 10 billion. Even if it did am sure agriculture could feed everyone. Have heard all this shit before, fifty years ago. "We won't be able to produce enough food!" Agriculture - "Hold our beer".

This bitch can go eat ME.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

You know, if we don't increase food production, we probably won't have to deal with ten billion people to feed.

...just saying.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Nigger I have a ranch and a self sustaining hog problem.

I bet you don't have any trouble with the locals. Not more than once, anyway.

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

If one is feeling particularly conspiracy-minded, one might wonder if they consider that a feature...

 

[tehpope]

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

That's the point. Force everyone but the ruling elites to eat bugs. They don't have energy to think for themselves. No energy to revolt. No energy to think about upward mobility. Its textbook cult shit.

 

[totally not CIA agent]

Yum yum! Eat ze bugs! ZU VIL SUFFER ZE PROBLEMS VE CREATED!

Will humans even reach a population of 10 billion? Even south Asian and African birth rates are dropping fast, primarily because of the shitton amount of western NGOs making birth control easily available.

 

[Android raptor]

Will humans even reach a population of 10 billion?

God I hope not

Mandated bug eating is a popular moral panic here, but it's not going to happen. The big meat packaging companies is the US have massive lobbying power (there's a reason a few companies have been able to monopolize the entire industry) and won't allow anything like that to happen. Ffs they've paid legislators to allow them to use child labor in slaughterhouses, your ability to eat beef every day isn't going away any time soon (at least not until you get ass cancer from it).

Personally I'll take a bug burger over pork especially.

 

[SilentDuck]

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.

Chinese have no problem cooking and eating each other. They aren't stupid like white people, history shows they will not eat the bugs.

 

[Obsessed snowman]

You vill eat the bugs.

Living in the Metaverse.​

You vill comply.​

Und it will get worse.​

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[CircuSphere]

This guy makes a complete case for why this shit is so fucking stupid and pervasive:

The core of it is a bait and switch where you pretend bugs fed on trash are safe for human consumption when pitching the economics/environmentalism, when in fact you have to feed the bugs human grade feed for this to be the case.

 

[CowPox]

Sometimes ill eat a couple of the meal worms i throw to my chickens, they don't taste bad, reminds me of oats or nuts in a way.

 

[Dysnomia]

“They're fine for snacking, but insect protein has its greatest potential as nutrient rich, climate-friendly livestock feed,”

Then give it to the livestock. It's natural for them to consume bugs. But I'm not eating the bugs directly. The cultures that eat bugs are usually in poor countries where there isn't much choice. If they still eat it when they are better off then it's a cultural holdover. Most westerners don't have that.

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

Have there been any hospitalizations or deaths due to "eat the bugs" propaganda yet? I assume if it hasn't happened yet it will. At least there should be a huge push to declare bugs as a potential allergen on packaging just like peanuts, eggs, milk, soy ect... That way I can avoid any product trying to sell me bugs on the sly.

 

[SilentDuck]

This guy makes a complete case for why this shit is so fucking stupid and pervasive:

The core of it is a bait and switch where you pretend bugs fed on trash are safe for human consumption when pitching the economics/environmentalism, when in fact you have to feed the bugs human grade feed for this to be the case.

I look at it this way - you goto give a chick like Android Raptor a rimjob and there's like a bug leg sticking out of her butthole because she's not very aggressive when she wipes. Now you also gotta worry about what that bug has been eating and doing with its whole life. I don't see the payoff.

 

[Biggie Smalls' Taint]

If I catch my great grand daughter serving a cockroach cocktail party I will come from beyond the black veil and haunt her shit. Not a regular poltergeist haunting. It will be a Japanese horror style haunting. Have her living room turn into impossible geometries of flesh and blood.

 

[CircuSphere]

I look at it this way - you goto give a chick like Android Raptor a rimjob and there's like a bug leg sticking out of her butthole because she's not very aggressive when she wipes. Now you also gotta worry about what that bug has been eating and doing with its whole life. I don't see the payoff.

Pretty much lol. It's because they are eaten or ground whole and there is no economic way to butcher them. Whatever is in their digestive tract winds up in yours.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

meh, at the rate our world population will start crashing in the next 50 years food is never going to be a real issue.

I mean we all know why the elites are pushing the "eat the bugs" bit but once Africa gets on board with modern civilization and it's birth rates start to crash like all other cultures world population will start to shrink really quickly. To the point where we as a society, well you really I'll be long dead, will have to come up with a new system as growth capitalism simply won't be viable.

Of course the current day elites have many other reasons for pushing "eat the bugs pleb" so my rebuttal is'

FUCK YOU I WON'T EAT THE BUGS and no amount of shitty propaganda articles shit out by your paid for media drones will ever convince me too. You want to take my steak away to boost your own ego, your own feeling of superiority?

Go ahead and try it and see what happens fuck-knuckle.

 

[azure hours]

The headline is so blatant I can only think it's not meant to convince anyone, but meant to bait outrage so they can write "These fucking CHUDS just hate sustainability!"
That being said, no, I simply will not be eating bugs. If it comes down to it, I'll hold up and raid the food delivery trucks that are en route to Bill Gates' compound before subjecting myself to favelaworld slop.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

I can't wait until mass parasites develop inside these bug eaters for eating bugs.

 

[Android raptor]

I look at it this way - you goto give a chick like Android Raptor a rimjob and there's like a bug leg sticking out of her butthole because she's not very aggressive when she wipes. Now you also gotta worry about what that bug has been eating and doing with its whole life. I don't see the payoff.

I'm not a scrote, I wash my ass

I can't wait until mass parasites develop inside these bug eaters for eating bugs.

Not any more than the parasites you can get from any other kind of meat. There's a reason you aren't supposed to eat undercooked pork or beef.

The headline is so blatant I can only think it's not meant to convince anyone, but meant to bait outrage so they can write "These fucking CHUDS just hate sustainability!"

Or meant as a psyop for Tyson, Smithfield, and Co to get people eating more of their meat thinking they're owning the libs.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

You could give hundreds of millions an allergic response to commonly encountered levels of chitin

Sounds like we need a vaxxxine to solve this problem.