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'Disgust factor' must be overcome if planet-friendly insect food to become mainstream
Yahoo! - Sky News ^ | May 14, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 05/17/2024 5:34:17 AM PDT by Red Badger

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'Disgust factor' must be overcome if planet-friendly insect food to become mainstream

They STILL don’t get it.

On a basic level, eating the muscle or organ of an animal is kinda gross.

And yet, we’ve been doing it for millennia. Because it has fueled us and nourished us. And don’t forget, PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals.

Sure, John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey. But that was his CHOICE. At the same time, Jesus ate fish. I don’t recall any line in the Gospel mandating that you must eat X.

Here’s the deal, Karen and Brandon: we don’t eet ze bugz because of the “disgust factor.” We don’t eat them because we embrace freewill and know that Our Betters are pathetic peaked-in-high-school jocks and cheerleaders who believe that we care about what they think.

21 posted on 05/17/2024 6:30:17 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: Red Badger

One more article on eating bugs. It’s obvious that the radical left really wants you to eat bugs and will attempt to make that happen by taxing meat and making it hard to own a farm.

They will have to step up the pace of magazine articles to persuade people that meat is bad and bugs are good.

Eating meat is normal and natural. It’s normal and natural for creatures lower down on the food chain to eat bugs. Then we eat them. It’s the way of nature.

I’ll take this crap more seriously when the White House has a Bug Day, during which all the president’s meals are made from bugs.


22 posted on 05/17/2024 6:30:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: I want the USA back

Meanwhile the elite will munch on Filet Mignon and Foie Gras.


23 posted on 05/17/2024 6:31:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I’m a second-hand bug eater.

Chickens eat bugs.

I eat chickens........................


24 posted on 05/17/2024 6:32:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Some insects are kosher — John the Baptist ate locusts, no doubt roasted, with honey.


25 posted on 05/17/2024 6:35:51 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Red Badger

This is like the movie Snowpiercer, where the poor people in the back of the train are given protein bars made from insects to eat.


26 posted on 05/17/2024 6:39:13 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: Red Badger

Simple NO, NO and NO.


27 posted on 05/17/2024 6:43:18 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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I have enough cicadas right now I could be a world supplier. Oh well, another missed opportunity . . .


28 posted on 05/17/2024 6:55:57 AM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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I have enough cicadas right now I could be a world supplier. Oh well, another missed opportunity . . .


29 posted on 05/17/2024 6:56:29 AM PDT by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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Freeze ‘em up for ‘hard times’.........................


30 posted on 05/17/2024 6:56:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I did not claw myself to the top of the food chain to eat BUGS!


31 posted on 05/17/2024 7:19:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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The American farmer can out produce anyone in the world in food production! In the depression of the 1930s the cheapest thing was STEAK!
So the FDR Democrats bought up millions of cattle and hogs, sheep, shot, killed and buried them to get the price of meat UP!

Yet people still starved because there were no jobs to buy that higher priced meat.
In areas away from the Dust Bowl crops were still plentiful.


32 posted on 05/17/2024 7:25:45 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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My Mother-in-law set out sticky traps to catch roaches. They caught quite few. Then she cried about those poor little things and had her husband kill the to keep the roaches from starving to death.


33 posted on 05/17/2024 7:28:13 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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Yeah, that's the trouble with it. Y'know what would help? Legislation to mandate prison terms to people who express disgust about eating insects! /s

34 posted on 05/17/2024 8:02:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Only the progressives, the globalists, the leftists and the commies (and their extended families) should be on an insect-based diet for at a minimum of 20 years in order to prove that they are viable food. Only after that trial should anyone else have to eat bugs. What pathetic, dishonest, arrogant nitwits these people proposing this are.


35 posted on 05/17/2024 8:23:57 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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36 posted on 05/17/2024 8:27:16 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: Red Badger

Oh, F you. The planet has never been a friend. It has been actively trying to kill me since birth. Look at its history, it has killed everyone so far. THAT IS A PATTERN!


37 posted on 05/17/2024 8:41:47 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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Gravity is deadly.

We fight it all our lives, but it always wins...................


38 posted on 05/17/2024 8:43:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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It's the vegans' backhanded way of getting shed of the muzzie demographic. Ya think they'll come right out and condemn the stoning of the goat during the Hajj?

39 posted on 05/17/2024 9:23:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Red Badger

The “disgust factor” try the NEED factor...

cause till there are no other sources of food, it’s NOT NEEDED!!!


40 posted on 05/17/2024 9:24:59 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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