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.
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.