Posted on 09/29/2025 11:43:08 AM PDT by 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!
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Just the dietary rules...............
If it happens, it happens.
Growing up people said we’d eventually be eating algae or plankton.
Is that so different from bugs?
Still, there’ll have to be a lot of processing.
Nobody wants to eat actual maggots if they look like maggots.
Gummy worms are probably the exception.
You can get $8 grasshopper tacos at a number of high end Mexican restaurants and food truck parks in Austin Texas. San Antonio same same. Seen them on the menu of a $45 per plate place in Miami too.
The two guys across the hall from my dorm at university were from Cameroon they routinely had fried locusts tossed in chili and lime or lemon if you didn’t know they were locusts you would have thought they were fried and dried chili shrimp th at you can get at every gas station is Central and South Texas they are ubiquitous from Waco south, you can find them in South or East Dallas as well.
God settled your false argument once and for all with Peter my guy. God has literally spoken on this matter.
ACTS 10:
11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
Can’t wait for Prime Rib night. I think I’ll be one of those annoying people and take a picture of my food and send it to NPR. (Ok, probably not, but it was fun to think of it).
Can’t wait for Prime Rib night. I think I’ll be one of those annoying people and take a picture of my food and send it to NPR. (Ok, probably not, but it was fun to think of it).
Can’t wait for Prime Rib night. I think I’ll be one of those annoying people and take a picture of my food and send it to NPR. (Ok, probably not, but it was fun to think of it).
I really liked what I wrote…posted three times lol
Lol
Send it to PETA.........................
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