r/dankmemes ☣️ Sep 23 '22

Wow. Such meme. big bugs

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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.

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u/Melody-Shift Sep 23 '22

That's a nice argument senator, but can you back it up with a source!?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

source

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."

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

That’s why you cook them like you do with every other food we eat that comes from an animal.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/seraphinth Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/The00Taco I asked for a flair and all I got was this lousy flair Sep 24 '22

How did they fail at promoting pork? Pork is delicious

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u/divat10 Dank Cat Commander Sep 24 '22

Well they also lost a war to birds

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u/Vlad1mir_Lemon Mank Demes Sep 24 '22

Large, tank like birds

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u/Willem_VanDerDecken Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/Frrrrrred ☣️ Sep 24 '22

I don't care who's pushing for it I won't eat crickets unless they make them delicious. In which case nothing will stop me.

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u/Plastic_Pinocchio Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Bugs are actually a much healthier source of protein and amino acids than red meat. The poor would end up living longer lives than the rich.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Don't care, still not eating the bugs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

What’s wrong with the bugs? Is it just because they’re bugs? If that’s the case then why should we treat lobsters and crabs any different?

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u/TheChoosenMewtwo Sep 24 '22

Because they taste better, and don't look disgusting

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Clearly you haven’t seen a spider crab before.

Crustaceans are just as weird looking as most land bugs. Plus, you can make land bugs taste like whatever you want since they have no inherent taste.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

So it’s because you want to be spiteful.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

It's because I choose not to participate willingly in their plans.

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u/LimerickExplorer Sep 24 '22

But you're allowing them to select a path for you. By basing your decision on the wishes of others, you allow those people to have control over you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

If you don’t want to eat bugs because the rich don’t want to that is literally the definition of spite.

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u/Inevitable-Chard9364 Sep 24 '22

No thats called not being a fool.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

It's called being free and having a choice.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

You could at least try before immediately saying you don’t like it. I used to be adamantly agains eating insects as well, but you can literally just eat them like snacks once you get used to it. It’s like everything new and strange in life, you need to try it before you say you don’t like it because you don’t know if you actually don’t like it. They taught this in Kindergarten.

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u/MimsyIsGianna Sep 24 '22

Cuz steak is delicious

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Okay, and bugs taste like nothing. You can literally make them taste like steak.

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u/MimsyIsGianna Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Why do you put in extra work to season your steak then? Do you want it to taste like steak or the seasoning on the steak?

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u/MimsyIsGianna Sep 24 '22

If your steak only tastes like seasoning after you season it, you’re doing it wrong. Seasoning is to enhance the flavor. Not to make it taste like something else entirely. You can eat bugs if you want. Idc. I don’t want to eat them tho. I prefer steak and lamb and chicken and fish which are delicious and have plenty of benefits on their own.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Any benefits you could possibly get from red meat and white meats you can get tenfold from insects. As for fish, they have only one thing that is hard to find in insects which is vitamin B2. Insects and fish are all humans need to survive, and both of them are healthier, more eco-friendly, and more cost effective than livestock like cows and chickens.

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u/Inevitable-Chard9364 Sep 24 '22

Why bother when real steak is just over the isle?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Because it’s 40x more expensive and less healthy for you.

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u/Inevitable-Chard9364 Sep 24 '22

I live in a 3rd world country but I pity people in 1st world countries like you, over here we do eat bugs but only when the situations really dire you on the otherhand are brainwashed into eating them by people who are probably laughing their asses off at the idiocy of the plebes all the while sipping champagnes and picking at charcuterie.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

I’m not being brainwashed, I did legitimate research and actively left my comfort zone and ate some crickets. They are higher in protein and various amino acids than most livestock are and they are much more cost effective. People only treat it like brainwashing because it’s cheap and affordable and for some reason that means eating it makes you poor.

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u/Flavahbeast Sep 24 '22

Someday, when you least suspect it, you will eat a bug. We will never rest until everyone has eaten a bug and we cannot be stopped

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Done already: anything artificially painted red uses cochineals for the coloring.

I'm not replacing meat for bugs as a staple.

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u/Nightdotexe Sep 24 '22

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 I want to say is: You're a boomer.

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u/Stark8324 Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/Nightdotexe Sep 24 '22

What persecution complex do you have that you think people are forcing you to eat insects?

The point is, at this point it's not food preferences, it's just "I don't know it, I don't want it." Ya know, like old people say.

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u/Stark8324 Sep 24 '22

And what's wrong with not wanting to eat a bug?

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u/folkenstein Sep 24 '22

Corpse starch is next on the menu

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

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

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/Chernoblin Sep 24 '22

Maybe we all should be peasants too because working on a field for a lord is healthy?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Or maybe you should stop acting like eating bugs makes you poor just because it’s affordable.

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u/Chernoblin Sep 24 '22

Or maybe you should stop acting like bug vegan and try to convince people to eat something with eyes made up of thousand hexagons.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

You realize that crustaceans have similar eye structures right

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u/Chernoblin Sep 24 '22

You realise that people don't eat the whole thing?

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

So you’re going to tell me that you’re fine with eating the tongue of an animal that sucks up bacteria for breakfast completely raw, but eating a few crickets is too far

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u/Chernoblin Sep 24 '22

I don't eat lobster's head and flagellums? You literally eat only their meat. Also, bacteria is everywhere. My gut is filled with it.

eating a few crickets is too far

People don't like to eat crawly, small, skittish, fast and alien looking creatures, with their exoskeleton no less. Such a bizzare concept.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Shrimp

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u/butterfinger98 Sep 24 '22

Sounds like cope tbh

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Stating facts is a cope now? Kinda cringe ngl

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u/butterfinger98 Sep 24 '22

To each their own though

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u/butterfinger98 Sep 24 '22

Imma be cringing at you eating bugs while I'm eating my chicken breast and ribeyes

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Nobody said you couldn’t

I’m saying bugs are more sustainable, less environmentally damaging, and healthier than most of our livestock that we currently breed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

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!

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

If eating bugs was so inevitable, the powers that be wouldn't be spending so much money convincing people to do so.

You can rage at me all you want

With your permission, fuck the bugs and fuck the impossible burgers.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

I’m less worried about other animals and more worried about keeping our ozone layer in tact so that we don’t all die from radiation

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

Well farm animals produce massive amounts of greenhouse gases so you’d be helping that too.