Posted on 04/14/2024 8:14:48 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I should point out that eating insects has been “the next big thing” for over forty years, and will continue to be the “next big thing” for the next forty because eating bugs is a niche concept that most people want nothing to do with.
Actually, that looks like liberal food to me...
well, to be fair - lobsters and crabs ARE related to some types of bugs.
Look at the countries which eat bugs and ask, do we really want to emulate them?
If Alpo made a dog food from bugs, I can guarantee you no one would buy it for their dog.
Actually, although I have joked about that, they are far more distantly related to bugs than you are related to fish. Yet, their muscle protein, the flesh, is vaguely similar to the flesh of fish or birds. And let’s face it, you only eat the tail of a shrimp; with a crab or lobster, you also eat the pincers and maybe the legs. All basically muscle flesh.
These bugs are too small for that; you’re basically eating the carapace, bowels and all. Yeah, I know some people eat that shit-filled tube down the length of the shrimp’s tail. Not me. And when I step on a caterpillar or bug, the gooey mess is nothing at all like what it would be like if I stepped on a shrimp tail.
I suspect that’s because most of these “bugs you can eat” are larvae, building up stores of food for their pupation stage.
Eat all the bugs you want, I’ll stick with meat, potatoes and salads.
Because 10-11% of the climate change carbon issue is agriculture. Since it is the easiest to manipulate to affect on the climate change issue they are pushing alternative protein sources that do not affect the carbon cycle. So less meat and dairy (read none) and industrial fertilizer intensive crops, and little people eating bugs and organic (lower fertilizer) crops to save the planet.
I might start believing all this when the White House serves insects as the main course at state dinners served to foreign dignitaries.
“And here, President Macron, we have our finest dish: Soup a la Cicada. For dessert, it will be Maggot Mousse. Bon appetite!”
He says it in that damn Nazi accent, wearing that idiotic uniform he likes to appear in, making him look like an alien.
Illegals will eat grasshoppers they like them
Chapulines
Lobster became popular in the late 1800’s, so I guess it depends on what “not long ago” means.
I recall reading somewhere that, in the colonies, feeding prisoners lobster was considered cruel and unusual.
I am an accomplished world traveler and have eaten virtually every form of protein that won’t kill a human and some that can if not prepared right. I am not scared to push boundaries it’s part of what makes life an adventure.
Including “Long-Pig?”
No thanks...
The Bible says that John the Baptist ate ‘locusts and wild honey’; but I’ve seen one interpretation indicating that the locusts were the pod of the carob tree, which is actually a legume...
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