NPR Once Again Tells The American Public That Eating Bugs Is Great

Not The Bee ^ | September 29, 2025 | Wolfgang Ramsay

[Red Badger]

Every so often the media rolls its sleeves up and tries to once again get us all to eat gross, filthy bugs instead of delicious, healthy, clean meat.

CBS ran this segment over the weekend arguing we should eat bugs because soybean farming is bad for the planet or something 🥴

Sadly, 2025 is no exception, with NPR once again making a bid to have us eat literal larva:

In markets in the capital Kinshasa, tubs full of writhing white maggots line the alleyways, and women traders fry caterpillars, spiced with chili, over charcoal fires. "The more you eat caterpillars, the more you'll have a long life," says Trésor Kisanbu, clutching a small plastic bag of fried caterpillars, in Kinshasa's largest market, Marché Liberté. "It strengthens your muscles and your eyes, it's really organic," he adds.

Me when they tell me to eat caterpillars and white maggots:

Just to sweeten the pot, NPR lets us know that local villagers harvest the slimy, gut-filled grubs "from rotting tree trunks in forested areas in the Congolese interior."

Even NPR can't hide the desperation inherent in eating literal grubs. They note that insect consumption only increased in some parts of Congo after the late 1970s, a period which coincided with "drought and the gradual degradation of forests, and subsequent scarcity of bushmeat," along with "back-to-back civil wars in the 1990s and 2000s [that] cratered the economy."

Maggots are an appealing alternative to starvation only after decades of environmental ruin, war and a severely depressed economy?

I'll stick with my burger, thanks!

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

Wait! I thought fried foods were bad ...

[crusty old prospector]

Sorry but when I hear Maggot, I can only think of Telly Savalas in The Dirty Dozen.

[Tell It Right]

Eat healthy bugs while on an emotionally healthy date night with your first cousin!

Two mega-ridiculous, but unfortunately true, news articles from The Babylon Bee's Not the Bee arm.

[teeman8r]

my meat eats bugs so i don’t have to...

[PAR35]

I thought deep state propaganda outfit CPB / NPR got de-funded.

[Red Badger]

They were, but they are funded through the end of the Fiscal year.............

[dljordan]

“They were, but they are funded through the end of the Fiscal year.............”

Chuck Schumer is trying to sneak some funds to them.

[Pontiac]

"A Trillion Cicadas. It's What's For Dinner."

Back in 2016 we had a 17 Year Cicada hatch in my neighborhood.

My dog loved them for dinner.

Every couple of hours he begged to go out.

His stools that week were filled with Cidada shells.

Supposedly saute'ed in butter they taste a lot like shrimp.

I didn't test the theory.

[Red Badger]

“His stools that week were filled with Cidada shells.

Supposedly saute’ed in butter they taste a lot like shrimp.”

Really?....................

[Red Badger]

“His stools that week were filled with Cidada shells.

Supposedly saute’ed in butter they taste a lot like shrimp.”

Really?....................

[Pontiac]

So, I have read.

Like I said, I did not bother to try it.

[No name given]

They can parade all the false data they want, but they’ll never convince any SANE person to eat bugs! Only insane people!

[Thommas]

"The more you eat caterpillars, the more you'll have a long life," says Trésor Kisanbu.."

What is the average lifespan in the Congo these days?

Life expectancy in the DRC is 48 years for men and 52 for women. Comparatively, life expectancy in the U.S. is 76 years
for men and 81 for women. I'll stick with organic, mammalian meat for my protein.

[Veto!]

Great old song about that:

” Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
Going to the garden to eat worms
Big fat juicy ones
Tiny little squiggly ones
Watch them wriggle and squirm

Bite their heads off
Suck their juice out
Throw their skins away
I don’t see how birds can live on
Worms three times a day

3rd verse:*
The first one was easy,
the second one was queasy,
The third one got caught in my throat.
Big fat juicy worms, slip slop slimy worms, fuzzy wuzzy little worms

Nobody loves me
Everybody hates me
Going to the garden to eat worms
Long thin slimy ones
Short fat juicy ones
Gooey, gooey, gooey, gooey, worms

Long thin slimy ones slip down easily
Short fat juicy ones stick
Short fat juicy ones stick between your teeth
And the juice goes slurp, slurp, slurp

source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/miscellaneouslyrics/childsongslyrics/nobodylovesmelyrics.html

[Red Badger]

I don’t blame you.

I wouldn’t try dog stools sautéed in butter either...............

[Maskot]

Good Lord, I so appreciate Not The Bee for traipsing through the npr BS so I don’t have to.....

Defunded or funded, they still put out the most insane takes on everything.

Imma go put a bone through my nose......BRB

[Daveinyork]

I’m ok with eating bugs, as long as they live in the water - lobsters, crabs, shrimp, and crawdaddies. However, the Bible forbids it because they don’t have fins and scales.

[Red Badger]

That’s only if you’re Jewish...........

[Daveinyork]

So if you’re not Jewish you can ignore the Bible?