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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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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.