Tips from an Avid Cicadas Eater
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This story surfaces every few years.
"Eat bugs, they're good for you"
"Eat bugs, they're high in protein"
"Eat bugs, look, this high status person with a PhD eats them."
Please ignore this story and don't eat the bugs
Food colorant E120 is crushed insects.
If this is a PR piece, who's standing to gain from it? Your comment seems overly cynical.
I mean what I learn from the above is that bugs won't kill you if eaten. So why not eat bugs? (We can also ask why eat bugs) Are they actually bad for you?
How much of a difference is there really between terrestrial insects and enormously popular underwater insects like shrimp, crabs, and lobsters?
Don't get me wrong, once we can grow real steaks in a petri dish I'm all in. Until then, I'm too old for this $!@#.
And we're actually closer to being able to grow steaks than some folks realize. The problem right now is obviously a bunch of muscle cells in a dish is not a steak, you need them forming organs. Badow: https://youtu.be/L43-XE1uwWc?t=2561
Food is actually the one thing that jumps out to me as “definitely purchased” which makes sense given the necessary consumption pattern.
Monthly access, rentals, leases, all of these are fine. But the key point, mentioned twice in their statement, is the word "will." You WILL own nothing and you WILL be happy.
You might quibble about diction, it's just a word, but that has been through many many sets of editorial hands and eyes. It is a commandment, it is non-optional, it removes your choice in the matter. You WILL own nothing. Not you may own nothing, but that you will own nothing. And you're going to be happy about it, more ominously.
For a few of us, still, having choice matters.
Some conspiracists think WEF somehow controls the world, in which case I can see how that’s alarming, but they don’t.
Let's not pretend that they are some neutral party, devoid of power, merely speculating on potential futures. They do not need to "control the world," that's the fallacy of the divided middle.
[1]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040531214618.h...
So they're probably not any worse than fish
The legs and exoskeleton are very, very hard, but not quite crunchy either. Like chewing on a number of small plastic toothpicks.
This is a fad that will not replace meat.
If people don't like the exoskeleton then it may be like lobstor: people don't eat that part and it gets processed differently (just like people don't eat chicken bones, which gets processed into food we do eat). I honestly don't see that as an issue.
The issue is that it will be in addition to meat, not instead of meat. Meat is tasty and the government that makes it too expensive in a misguided attempt to save the environment (can't be done, we will have to live with global warming or begin the geoengineering stuff yesterday) will just become unpopular with the population.
The other issue is that I can serve beef, chicken etc to guests. I can buy some bugs as a curiosity snack and have them in the kitchen, I can't serve them as any part of the meal, without it being looked down on.
Honey tastes like bees, another insect. It mostly tastes sweet of course, but the flavor underneath is bees.
Do people with shellfish allergies also tend to have trouble with honey?
The crickets themselves, they were just like eating any other fried crispy thing. They were also overpriced and rather insubstantial compared to other similar fried crispy snacks.