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9833837 No.9833837 [Reply] [Original]

Why are vegans and vegetarians opposed to eating bugs? Is there a sizeable group of people that just eat vegan+bug, kind of like pescatarians with fish.

>> No.9833846

>>9833837
this doesn't seem quite cricket to me

>> No.9833855

>>9833837
Vegan and vegetarian diets both avoid killing things for food. I don't think there's a sizeable number of vegan+bug dieters, and I think the whole insect thing is mostly a fad anyway, at least in the west. Western culture put a lot of importance on cattle, and trying to get people to switch to insects is most likely never going to work. We'll probably have cultured/lab-grown meat before a large number of people switch to eating insects.

>> No.9834120

>>9833837
bugs suffering is something to be avoided

>> No.9834171

>>9834120
*bugs suffering is something to be encouraged.

Fixed for you.

>> No.9834186

>>9834120
>>9834171
Are bugs even sentient

>> No.9834213

>>9834186
Are u nigger

>> No.9834216

>>9834213
No, I'm white. What about you?

>> No.9834224

>>9834120
bugs... easy on the suffering

>> No.9834235

>>9834186
Good, fuck bugs.

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9835273

>>9833837
>Why are vegans and vegetarians opposed to eating bugs?

Why is this something you even know? I've got vegan friends and none of them has ever said a word about bugs, let alone the fact that I eat meat.

It's like /ck/ patrols the internet looking for stuff a vegan might have said once so they can whine about being oppressed by vegans.

>> No.9835282

It harms bugs, the same thing with bees and honey harvest.

>> No.9835340

>>9834120
Bugs don't feel pain.

>> No.9835360

>>9833837
They call themselves bugmen.
Or they will once the media they consume daily tell them that it's cool, naughty, weird, off-kilter, leftfield, edgy.

>> No.9835675

>>9833837
>vegan + bug
I eat vegan everyday, I just have a side of pork, beef and chicken with it !

>> No.9835684

Vegans really should be eating bivalves / moluscs etc. Not only does farming say, oysters, have positive externalities (ie improved waterways), not only are they a high source of zinc, iron, complete protein, but they're fucking retarded. Like literally. Plants, and ESPECIALLY fungi react with more cognition to stimuli than pleb moluscs.

>> No.9835690

>>9835684
Go to bed Rogan.

>> No.9835783

>>9835340
Anything with a central nervous system feels pain you donkey, their perception of pain is just not something we can accurately conceptualize.
Think about it, in what conceivable way would a species that couldnt feel pain ever be able to avoid predators, know when it's injured and needs to heal, and ever survive long enough to breed

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9835791

I eat every one I can get my hands on. Fuck bugs

>> No.9835872

>>9833855
If it's cheap, it will eventually be used in processed food. And processed food makes up a sizeble portion of people's diet these days.

Plus it'd be weird for WASPS to not eat bugs.

>> No.9837409

>>9835684
That's not quite true, farming mollusks can alter the ecosystem of a waterway with lots of unforseen consequences. Also mollusks have a lot more cognitive ability that a plant or fungi; just think about it for a second, does grass or a sponge have more cognitive ability than a snail? I think not

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9837640

>>9835273
This.

Because other peoples' ideals don't match their own, they attack because they feel the guilt.

Vegans might be on a strange diet, but it seems like it's healthier and more economically and environmentally beneficial.

>> No.9838332

>>9835783
In his defense, their extremely short lifespans mean they can’t be crippled by pain if they say lose a leg while they have a tiny window to mate before they die, so a lot of them probably feel no or maybe very little pain

>> No.9838357

can't wait for roach milk to become commonplace

>> No.9838385

>>9833837
I'm vegan and I'm not opposed to it. For the reasons already stated ITT. However, where I live, I've never once come across an opportunity to eat bugs. I'll try them if I ever get the chance.

I do eat mussels and oysters etc.

So apparently I'm not really vegan, but this is what makes the most sense to me.

>> No.9839959

>>9833837
Pretty sure most people are opposed to eating insects and it's probably the ick-factor

>> No.9839966

>>9833855
Are plants not living things? They are displaying special privilege towards Animalia and that is just flat out wrong.