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Posted on 07/26/2025 6:55:02 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Raising animals for food is one of the most wasteful and resource-intensive practices in farming and by far the most environmentally damaging. A logical question to ask in response to the meat and dairy industries’ destruction of the environment might be, “Why don’t we just get our protein from fruits, vegetables, legumes, and grains instead?”
Frustratingly, companies looking into “alternative protein sources” aren’t going for the sustainable, obvious choices but, instead, are pouring energy into options that will turn your stomach—like bugs.
Yes, you read that right: bugs.
The foundation is already being laid for the production of even more cruelly obtained animal-based products, such as protein powder and bars made from crushed, “processed” crickets as well as cricket “chips,” which may kill one cricket per chip. Apparently, nothing is more appetizing on game day than a mouthful of mashed insect guts and legs.
Bugs have somehow become common food ingredients, such as the red dye carmine (which is made from the crushed bodies of the female cochineal insect) and confectioner’s glaze, or shellac, found in sprinkles and even some candies (it’s made from the crushed bodies of the female lac bug). It’s up to consumers like you to keep “bugs as protein” from becoming the norm.
For those of you asking, “But how will I get protein without animals?”—fear not!
First, many people are convinced that they need way more protein than they actually do to be healthy and muscular. Second, there are tons of plant-based protein powders, protein bars, and, yes, even chips that can provide you with all the protein that you could ever need—without harming animals.
Crickets, like other animals used for food, do nothing to harm us. They perform pleasant songs to accompany summer nights, inspire adorable movie characters, and are altruistic. Male crickets will even risk their lives to protect pregnant females. Most importantly, they are sentient beings who exist for their own reasons.
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Irresponsible Sex Enthusiasts: Stop ripping apart your babies
They rip live babies apart and still want to sound like some sort of moral authority. They look down on us. Unbelievable.
And beagles give you unconditional love. Right Anthony Fauci?
I agree with PETA. A good beef steak is much tastier and better than a handful of insects. Well, duh!
Eventually they’ll tell us it’s cruel to eat plants as well. After all, they’re completely innocent beings, needing only soil and sunlight to live. We should eat dirt instead.
As opposed to babies in the womb.
I think PETA is a collection of loons.
That said, https://www.peta.org/faq/what-is-petas-stance-on-abortion/
What is PETA’s stance on abortion?
PETA does not have a position on the abortion issue, because our focus as an organization is the alleviation of the suffering inflicted on nonhuman animals. There are people on both sides of the abortion issue in the animal rights movement, just as there are people on both sides of animal rights issues in the pro-life movement. And just as the pro-life movement has no official position on animal rights, neither does the animal rights movement have an official position on abortion.
Swift’s Modest Proposal will soon become the logical position of these people. If you can’t eat animals, including crickets, and you can’t get enough protein any other way, and unborn babies in the womb aren’t yet human, go ahead and rip them out and roast them for dinner.
The Bible lists certain edible (”kosher”) insects.
i had to get after peta to force them to stop sending inappropriate photos to young people- they wouldn’t stop sending photos of bloody rabbits with eyes hanging out of their heads, throats slit, etc etc etc- Had to threaten to take them to court— they did stop- but not without getting nasty-
Despicable group of degenerates
they hooked plants up with wires- and tortured one plant in another room and the other plant was negatively affected supposedly- also plants can send out distress signals and other plants will react to try to help protect the one plant-
pretty soon the left will claim that plants are off limits too-
I like PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals! I know it’s an old joke but I always think of it when that bunch of loons comes up.
Dear God, I agree with PETA for once: Crickets for food is stupid. But only because pigs and chickens are more efficient.
What happen to Bill Gates Fake Meat , Oh wait USAID is gone ,LOL
The far Left vs. the far Left.
Yea, same here. If PETA protested at Davos that’d be 2 things they did that I like.
PETA is not 100% bad. Respect and care for God’s creatures is a good thing. It is the extremes that they use that tarnishes them.
PETA is not 100% bad. Respect and care for God’s creatures is a good thing. It is the extremes that they use that tarnishes them.
There’s no better source of protein than meat.
Not to mention B12.
Any diet that requires supplementation to keep you healthy is not a healthy diet.
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