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[–]r2d2_21 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Insects as food

This is funny. Here in Mexico we do eat some insects, like grasshoppers (chapulines) as a snack, but there's no way they would replace all the meat we also get to eat.

[–]PenseePansy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is what I keep thinking! Like, in order to actually live on a diet of insects, you'd have to eat ENTIRE BOWLS of 'em! For multiple meals! Every day! Who the hell would (or could) do THAT? Plus, how much nutrition do you get out of an insect? Including calories? Not much, I'm guessing, at least for a non-insectivore species like us humans. Sorry, wokesters, we just didn't evolve to subsist on bugs. Probably the same people advocating this who think that veganism for cats (or, yanno, humans), and low-fat diets for babies, are also a good idea.

[–]MarkJefferson 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They make bug patties out of midges in some places, but the conditions that allow for enough of those for meals only occurs maybe once(for a few days) in an entire growing season. Then it's back to cooking roots and catching fish.

Anyways, we already effectively eat huge insects in the form of crustaceans(crabs, lobsters, shrimp, crawdads). And those are actually big enough to give decent output(protein, fat) for our inputs(fuel, labour, tech). So the bug-eating advocates can go enjoy their delicious Cockroach Milk with Crunchy Grasshopper Biscuits, and I'll have to contend with my Spicy Seafood Gumbo🍲