• queermunist she/her
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    89 months ago

    You’re gonna eat bugs because it’s either that or die fighting over the last unopened can of beans in a burned down Walmart.

    • EinatYahavOP
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      69 months ago
      • Sees power armored person take out a plasma gun toting raider gang.
      • Looks down at their toothbrush shiv
      • “Cowabunga”
  • Flying Squid
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    59 months ago

    I’ve eaten insects. I’ve eaten crickets and ants and beetle larvae.

    Honestly, they taste fine.

    People have no problem eating shrimp, crab and lobster, but suggest a cricket and they act like it’s the worst thing in the world to eat.

      • Flying Squid
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        79 months ago

        Why does chitin make a difference? It’s tasty and not disgusting when you peel off the outside?

        I mean if the concept is so disgusting, there’s cricket flour and you can’t taste anything different when you bake with it.

        Insects are incredibly cheap to harvest, about as green as you can get when it comes to animal farming, and very high in protein.

        And plenty of cultures have no problem eating insects. Oaxacan Mexicans eat crickets and they sell chapulin tacos in Los Angeles from street carts sometimes. This is a stupid Western bias that we should get the fuck over for the sake of the planet.

          • Flying Squid
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            49 months ago

            That’s about chitin in the lungs. The body can break down chitin in the stomach. Can it cause an allergic reaction in some people? Sure. Many foods can.

  • @EpsilonVonVehron
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    9 months ago

    “… if I didn’t know any better, I would swear that people in that place are selling us out to the CCP.“ What a gutless fear-mongery thing for a Senator to say. Like saying I’m not saying this but, you know just putting it out there. He would know very well that those conspirafools will run with it.