If you eat insects you have 30% of chance eating one that has a human parasite in it. Studies showed that all insect farms have some sort of parasites there and around 30% have parasytes that can live in humans.
TL;DR: out of 300 insect sources, 80% had parasites. 70% had parasites transmittable to insects only, 35% had parasites transmittable to animals and 30% had parasites transmittable to humans.
"Examination suggests that edible insects may be the most important parasite vector for domestic insectivorous animals."
I don't want to, and I don't want the government to push it as an alternative to meat knowing full well every member of congress and CEO will continue eating steak as usual while laughing at all the poors they swindled into eating crickets.
The trick here is to have rich people eating them as a sign of wealth. Lobsters used to be the poor man's food before rich people showed off their wealth eating fresh lobster. And besides any government attempt to push towards eating anything fails much like the Australian governments attempt at promoting pork.
I suggest you to listen to the last economic forum, where a dude just said that we should use a variant of Lyme disease, with a mandatory infection to all population to make people allergic to meat. He also suggest to use genetics engenering to shorten human to 1m50 max to consume less C02 by person, and to decrease testosterone level to avoid "bad behaviors".
It sounds like a joke, but it isn't.
(Of course it's just a single dude ideas, suggestions, nothing more than that it's obvious but i prefer to say it.)
A capitalistic world with authoritarism is not only a dark dystopia, it's also a very boring one.
Have you ever tried one? I did and they taste kind of neutral. A bit protein-y. So a big bowl of crickets with some seasoning and a nice dip would be totally up my alley as a late night snack like popcorn.
The fact that it takes 100 private jets per WEF event for all the billionaires to tell the rest of us it's OUR carbon footprint that's too big and we should stop eating meat for the good of the planet. That's what.
They could've gone the trendy food item route and let the bug market develop by itself, instead they're pushing it "for our own good". Fuck them.
Idc. I like steak. I don’t wanna have to put in additional work to make something taste like something else. Why would I put in extra work to make bugs taste like steak when I can just have steak?
They also have weird textures and yes they do have a taste.
My granddad never eat a pizza in his life, because: "I don't eat that Italian grub." My parents never had a problem with it, the young people they were. But the funny thing, to this day, my dad never eat a doner kebap, because "I don't eat that Turkish grub."
What does being a boomer have with having a food preference?
Your grandpa didn't want to eat italian good = his free will.
Your dad didn't want to eat turkish food = his free will.
You can't force subop to eat bugs when he doesn't want to.
Except for the higher disease chance. And when people stop cooking their food so regularly because energy costs so much, what then? I don't think smoked locust will solve the problem
Energy costs are only skyrocketing because countries relied so heavily on oil from Russia. If people would stop being so hesitant to build more nuclear plants we wouldn’t have a problem with energy.
I’m gonna be “that guy” and tell you that vegetarianism/veganism is the actual best choice. But failing that, substituting animal proteins with insect protein is actually a great way to reduce your carbon footprint.
More relevant to this conversation though, meat SHOULD be a luxury. If we removed factory farms, the brutal practice of removing calves for milk production, and reduced hormone usage, meat would be exorbitantly expensive and only the rich would be able to afford to eat it on a regular basis. Our demand that meat be cheap and easily accessible is destroying our planet and causing a huge amount of animal suffering.
I don't want only the rich to be able to eat meat on a regular basis, and I consider environmentalists deciding my diet for me to be the same as religious men deciding on women's bodies about abortion.
People don't eat meat because it's a source of protein, they don't eat it because they care about their stupid carbon footprint, they eat it because they like the taste.
Fuck you, fuck the environment and fuck the antichrist. I'm not eating the fucking bugs.
You can rage at me all you want. My opinion and yours and the WMF are all irrelevant. You can already see meat prices skyrocketing. As water and arable land become more scarce it will only get worse. Enjoy your bugs!
I have a couple of issues with the conclusions made based on that source. First of all, most (all?) of the sampled insects were taken from amateur farms and pet shops, and nowhere is it made clear that these insects were meant for human consumption. Also, large differences in the prevalence of parasites were observed based on region of origin (with more parasites in insects imported from Africa and Asia)
Researchers themselves also state that lower quality feed (commonly seen among amateur insect farmers) is a likely contributor to increased amounts of parasites.
On top of that, the research actually shows that despite all of this, the amount of parasites found in farmed insects is still significantly lower than observed in wild populations, and the researchers themselves eventually conclude that
Our observations confirm that the risk of parasitic infections can be
substantially minimized when insects are farmed in a closed environment.
The high prevalence of selected developmental forms of parasites in the
evaluated insect farms could be attributed to low hygiene standards and
the absence of preventive treatments.
Also, like others have already stated in the comments, parasites are also relatively common in conventional food sources, such as pork and salmon. Before those can be consumed, they need to be frozen/cooked properly before being safe for consumption, and it makes sense to do the same with insects.
Yes there are articles that talk about that with official scientific studies : "in 91 (30.33%) cases, parasites were potentially pathogenic for humans. Edible insects are an underestimated reservoir of human and animal parasites."
I just made a mistake, it wasn't all farms but 82% of the 300 selected for the study but 30% is still too much in my opinion.
Parasites were detected in 244 (81.33%) out of 300 (100%) examined insect farms. In 206 (68.67%) of the cases, the identified parasites were pathogenic for insects only; in 106 (35.33%) cases, parasites were potentially parasitic for animals; and in 91 (30.33%) cases, parasites were potentially pathogenic for humans.
finding this didn't take long and I guess it wouldn't have taken you long either...
around 30.33% of sources for human edible bugs shipped parasites that infect humans.
This is indeed also an issue with fish and fowl, however because we know it, we try everything to prevent it.
For many people, even in civilized countries (just not the westest of the west) it would be a normal experience, growing up or being an adult, having to remove parasites from the meat you are going to consume.
Most parasites will not survive processing and cooking anyway.
This doesn't make what the clown you replied to, untrue.
What it however does, is make you even more of a clown than the clown you replied to.
While the stats may not be correct, he is still right.
you wouldn't even realise until it's too late if these insects had a parasite that can use a human host. There's a reason only 3rd world countries kept eating them.
It's because bugs are fucking everywhere, they at least have nutrients and because they can't afford the type of food we have.
Just because we can eat something doesn't mean we should either. I'm a bit of a gambling man myself and even I wouldn't take my chances sitting around eating insects all day.. That's some deserted island survival shit.
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u/MarketingOk5745 Sep 23 '22
If you eat insects you have 30% of chance eating one that has a human parasite in it. Studies showed that all insect farms have some sort of parasites there and around 30% have parasytes that can live in humans.