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1 posted on 03/07/2024 1:30:02 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Man....f*ck dat sh*t.....


2 posted on 03/07/2024 1:32:23 PM PST by wardamneagle
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Well...if you need to throw up, yes...because that’s what the idea of eating bugs makes me feel like doing.


3 posted on 03/07/2024 1:34:16 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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BRAIN Check...


4 posted on 03/07/2024 1:34:32 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Stock up on legumes and brown rice and ketchup. You’ll be eating like a king, compared to how everybody else will be eating.


5 posted on 03/07/2024 1:36:33 PM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much american history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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No way! And there are other studies out there questioning the health of this, especially on a larger scale.

Okay, let idiots eat bugs, maybe catch and eat cochroches in their houses, etc. I'll stick to bacon, steaks, and healthier choices.

6 posted on 03/07/2024 1:37:21 PM PST by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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Do I look like I care about a carbon footprint?

Throw on an extra steak.


7 posted on 03/07/2024 1:43:09 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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Golly. If I was a suspicious person I would suspect the WEF goons paid for this important article about how great it is to eat bugs.


12 posted on 03/07/2024 2:02:50 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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13 posted on 03/07/2024 2:03:50 PM PST by 4Liberty (My 2024 prediction: Biden will be 'eliminated' -- not Trump --and Deep State will suspend elections.)
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Will Klaus Schwab and the WEF next say they growing your own bugs will hurt Mother Earth and you can only eat the bugs they supply?

We will own everything and you better be happy, or at least silent, about it.

14 posted on 03/07/2024 2:04:25 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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So are the leftists sharing this information with Africa? How about other famine and food starved people? Just think of the foreign aid that could be saved


15 posted on 03/07/2024 2:08:44 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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No but bacon is;’-)


16 posted on 03/07/2024 2:09:56 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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I don’t want to eat bugs, but I’m sure if we ate the bugs God told the Israelites to eat, we’d be fine.


17 posted on 03/07/2024 2:10:58 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Every species of anything has its own kaleidoscope of flora and fauna. A host of bacteria, viruses, prions and fungus. We have adapted to whatever lives in the food we eat. Now we’re venturing into territory we haven’t been into for probably hundreds of thousands of years. I wonder what new disease is just waiting to spread from beetles to humans.


18 posted on 03/07/2024 2:11:00 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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dung beetles


19 posted on 03/07/2024 2:14:08 PM PST by joshua c
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We don’t need fiber. However, bugs could probably make a good protein supplement. Our bodies break protein down into amino acids and having the correct blend of amino acids to build muscle tissue is important. Depends on the specific insect but it looks like some (not ALL!) provide a balance close to what we need.


20 posted on 03/07/2024 2:15:45 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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The chitin in bugs can alter inflammatory and immune response.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680136/


21 posted on 03/07/2024 2:22:59 PM PST by jimwatx
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Some people are allergic to shellfish, can people be allergic to bugs? Honest question.


23 posted on 03/07/2024 2:40:25 PM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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Ask Gundry. He’s the gut guy.


25 posted on 03/07/2024 2:46:57 PM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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Just an abstract...but interesting.

Human Gastric Juice Contains Chitinase That Can Degrade Chitin

But degrade is not digest or absorb, eh?

Note to Deep State: Not eating ze bugs.

28 posted on 03/07/2024 3:23:43 PM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Ironically - just published paper regarding a nasty parasitic disease caused by accidentally ingesting bugs. I find it ironic - once upon a time I was a biophyscicist/biomed engineer designing stuff as a last-ditch therapy.

Now the plague may be extending into Florida.

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/oral-transmission-chagas-disease-has-severe-effects-2024a100042f?240307&src=FYE&ecd=WNL_recnlnew1_broad_US_perso_etid6358029&uac=439418DR&impID=6358029

From my email to friends:

Coming to a Florida site near you. The article confirms an earlier study that claims 30% of examined ‘kissing bugs’ in Florida were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. I see these conenose bugs regularly. Sometimes even on the outside of my window screens. You don’t want to be bitten, even by a clean bug. Hurts like hell.

So now that vector based xmission is being reduced, oral xmission becomes a problem; “And as organic farming methods without insecticides become increasingly common, more research is needed in these areas, both in Latin America and in the United States, to understand if oral transmission of T cruzi is occurring.”

Ironic. So instead of the Assassin Bug biting you, you, in effect, bite them. The parasite load is estimated to be 100x greater. Yes, it is treatable IF recognized.


33 posted on 03/07/2024 5:59:18 PM PST by NelsTandberg ( )
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