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Since people want to eat animals. There are enough plant-based protein sources already.

Don't fall for the meme, just eat beans and chickpeas if meat gets too expensive. Or learn to fish. Let them eat the bugs.

>>14658218
Do you like shrimps?

>>14658224
pathetic attempt

>>14658224
Do you like pigeon?
You probably already eat chicken and turkey, why not eat pigeon instead.
Pigeons are everywhere, there wouldn't be any need for cruel battery farming, just go to the park and get yourself a nice, sustainable, echo friendly and low CO2 pigeon.
Yummy.

>>14658281
Pigeon is actually good, but I wouldn't eat feral pigeons from inner cities, for disease and toxicity reasons. Have you never tried wood pigeon?
Also, I don't eat chicken or pigeon, since I haven't eaten meat in about 10 years (with the occasional exception of accidental bacon in quiche or when my ex couldn't finish her schnitzel or so). So personally, I also eat neither shrimp, nor locusts.

>>14658210I
If enough people do so, the economies of scale may result in substantially lower protein costs. The science behind insect farming is amazing.

>>14658210
They don't sound either financially nor environmentally more beneficial than traditional farming. I think there is an ulterior motive. I suspect either to take away farming revenue from white western nations by demonising a big part of it, or because eating food some way effects you spiritually. Maori had the concept and they called it mana. I suspect eat a steak makes you different than eating bugs. Maybe more bug like, e.g. subservient to the hive

>>14658336
>it may

Wow, brilliant. Truly the solution we need. Protein isn't even terribly expensive now if your criteria is just 'eating literally fucking anything'.

>>14658360
>They don't sound either financially nor environmentally more beneficial than traditional farming.
Why? You can farm insects in some basement. Chickens need more space, light etc.
> take away farming revenue from white western nations by demonising a big part of it
If white western farmers are too dumb to farm insects, then they're more stupid than methheads with cockroach infestations.
>Maori had the concept and they called it mana.
If their concepts are so good, why didn't they come to Europe and enslave our ancestors?

Eating the bugs always reminds me of that movie Snowpiercer where the plebs were being fed some protein bars that apparently are not too bad wrt taste. Later they find out that they are made of bugs and they all show disgust. Meanwhile, the upper class has no such restrictions. That movie released in 2013, so not too long ago!

>>14658281
Pigeon is, indeed, very tasty. Bugs are generally kind of bland, but can make a nice snack if you spice them well.

>>14658384
They always show their hand before carrying out the plan. It's all part of their theatrics.

>>14658384
In 2013, bugs were still not approved for human consumption. I remember some (in hindsight probably illegal) booth on a Christmas market that sold deep-fried locusts. Crunchy and tasty, but also somehow weird and unusual. I remember seeing the first insect burgers and "meatballs" in Switzerland before they were sold in Germany. It was a short hype when it was new, but to be honest I'm not sure if I've seen any insect-based food recently. It's not this huge transition.

But I seriously don't get why it's ok to eat shrimp, lobster, clams and snails, but mealworms and locusts are suddenly disgusting. To me, they all are. Imagine eating a whole small animal. Cultivated insects at least don't destroy the ecosystems at the bottom of the oceans.

>>14658410
True. If you check youtube for "eating bugs" you'll find a plethora of propaganda disguised as documentaries over the past few years. Seems this transition was planned 6-7 years ago.

>>14658421
People will 100% eat the bugs with enough marketing. I can imagine tik tokers doing paid bug-shake reactions

>>14658377
>>14658377
Maori weren't enslaved, and militaristic might has nothing to do with intelligence. Even the 'dumbest' indigenous peoples the aboriginals knew to yearly burn away the forest under brush to prevent forest fires. This is something californians have not yet figured out to the death of over one hundred people and billions of dollars of damage.

But to simplify
>Military superiority literally infers infallibility

Either stupid or disinfo. It's already been shown that traditional farming is far cheaper. We already have the capacity we need.

>>14658410
>hey always show their hand before carrying out the plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3UqLAtdZ04

>>14658421
>It's not this huge transition.
It's only quite recently that most insect species have been approved for food use in EU and Switzerland. I think it will become much more common in the coming decade, but they'll probably start to appear more as components in processed food rather than just served whole like you get in Mexico.
I find it fascinating how pathetic and whiny some anons get about insect foods.

>In 1622, the governor of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford, was embarrassed to admit to newly arrived colonists that the only food they "could presente their friends with was a lobster ...
>Later, rumor has it, some in Massachusetts revolted and the colony was forced to sign contracts promising that indentured servants wouldn’t be fed lobster more than three times a week.
YOU WILL EAT LOBSTERS
YOU WILL EAT THE FOOD OF SLAVES AND MURDERS
YOU WILL LIVE IN HUTS AND EAT THE LOBSTERS AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY

>>14658431
Like I said, a few years ago, they were in every supermarket, certain restaurants offered insect balls, but it didn't last long. Plant-based meat substitutes seem much more popular.

>>14658448
>I find it fascinating how pathetic and whiny some anons get about insect foods.
It's not the bugs themselves that bothers me, it's the weird narrative about how bugs are a green alternative to regular meat - I see no proof and it feels forced.

>>14658461
>2050
>McStarbucks
>Be enjoying my kelp and kale simuburger again (I use my Walmart motorized arm brace to help my weak body lift it up)
>The insect gigachads show up again, shoving homemade mealworm meatballs into their mouths
>One of them picks me up with one arm, and begins shaking me for coins like a cartoon
>The others begin ransacking the place, simply picking up and rotating the armed guards onto their heads effortlessly
>They spot a fly outside and all give chase, talking about minmaxxing their gains
At least I didn't have to eat any nasty bugs or anything.

>>14658471
>I see no proof and it feels forced.
You don't understand how insects need less space, food, or water than cows?

>>14658478
I'm not one of the whiny ones, I just don't eat animals. If some people must eat animals, then I'm happy if they're eating the least sentient ones with the smallest impact on the rest of the planet. You don't need to cut down the rainforest to plant onions for insects like you do for cattle.

>>14658489
This. You can grow your breakfast in a filing cabinet, but the multinational cattle hyperfarms are not corpo?

>>14658210
Saves on costs and saves the planet. It's a good thing, Chud.

>>14658492
I'm kind of banking on lab-cloned meat. Obviously it's not gonna replace a steak, but I think it's got potential as a substitute for ground meat in hamburgers and chillis and stuff.

>>14658514
Have you tried beyond and similar ground "meat"? This might have killed lab-grown cells as meat, since the market is no longer empty and there's a much higher pressure for low prices. Let's see what will happen, but I think by the time lab-grown meat is ready, it might actually be too late to compete with the plant-based ones. They'd need to offer an advantage, either price-wise (will be tough), or taste-wise. If they can replicate an actual steak, that's something that could work. The ones on the market today are meh. But if they need another few years, planted steaks might actually be decent.

>>14658210
I shan't eat the bugs, nor live in the pod. People were already tricked to sell off all their land to go live in tight cities where they can be stacked like rats on top of each other. This is just the next step.

>>14658440
what the fuck

>>14658210
Yes. They're virtually flavorless so I tend to stick to using them as bait or chicken food

>>14658210
>Are bugs really a legitimate source of protein?
No, very low quality. Same as that bag of fried pig skins. Says a lot of protein on the bag, but also with an asterisk that notes that it is not a good source of protein, because of non-bio-availability of it due to being denatured too much with cooking.
Even raw bugs are not a quality source of protein.

Beef is the only really high quality meat source of protein, along with certain species of fish.

Milk and eggs are also top tier.

Everything else is lower tier and will make people dumber and smaller and weaker over generations.

>>14658218
>Let them eat the bugs.
I'll eat humans at that point. Humans taste like pork belly, aka -bacon.

>>14658360
>I think there is an ulterior motive. I suspect either to take away farming revenue from white western nations by demonising a big part of it, or because eating food some way effects you spiritually.
No shit sherlock.

It is about creating a weakened slave class, similar to under Feudalism, where the rich 1% leftists eat the meat, and everyone else eats bread and bugs.

>>14658210
I read that eating grasshoppers reduces the myocarditis one can expect from their 6th booster.

>>14658384
>Eating the bugs always reminds me of that movie Snowpiercer where the plebs were being fed some protein bars that apparently are not too bad wrt taste. Later they find out that they are made of bugs and they all show disgust. Meanwhile, the upper class has no such restrictions.

Watch the old movie "S O Y L E N T GREEN". They had s o y l e n t orange which was bugs, then the "green" version was .......

Guess what year that movie was set in?

>>14658210
Of course not.
Do you really have to ask such a silly question? Are you a bird?

>>14658210
You've already been eating bugs for decades sweetie, you just didn't know.

>>14658509
What's "Chud"?

>>14661341
portmanteau of "chad" and "stud"

>>14661328
Negro foods kek
They always ate bugs

>>14658421
>In 2013, bugs were still not approved for human consumption.
Nonsense. I used to buy barbecue flavored crickets when I was a child. They were delicious. Unflavored crickets are crunchy and bland, but any spices make them tasty af.

>>14658432
>aboriginals knew to yearly burn away the forest under brush to prevent forest fires
They had a ritual where the would "butterfly" the penis, split it open length ways. This was done with rocks.
They would then hold the penis and point it at thunder clouds believing they could direct lightning

>>14658336
>The science behind insect farming is amazing.

You give the WEF too much credit if you think they'll actually be able to make us "eat bugs and live in the pod". They are a bunch of boomers trying to live out their neo-feudal fantasy before they kick the bucket. Nothing more, nothing less.

>>14661663
Not all of us grew up in Botswana

peruvian

>>14658210
>Are bugs really a legitimate source of protein?
Sure!

>but why are they choosing fucking bugs over something like algae?
Well that I don't know. I won't resort to bullshit meat impersonations like the impossible burger.

>>14658210
>why are they choosing fucking bugs over something like algae?

because its only about nutrition on the surface level
really its about humiliation
bugs and maggots are disgusting animals, thats why we are supposed to eat them
its the perversion of corrupt elites that are not just happy with stealing your money, having you work as a slave for them, as the determine every factor of your life, who you get to talk to, what you get to say, how happy you get to be as the torment you with anexiety inducing "news"
they rape you in the ass and abuse you like an adult can abuse a little child, its completely helpless
laws dont protect you, and immediately when rich people get in contact with the law you can see the difference
poor people get shot and beaten to a pulp by police, while affluent serial child rapists get invited to interviews

just abusing you like good cattle is just not good enough for them, they need that sweet extra bit of humiliation, thats why you will be forced to eat bugs
it is that way and no other way

they are depraved beyond belief, people talk about god and atheists are up their own ass when they mock and ridicule what gives other hope and consolation, but let me tell you: satan exists, he is very real
he exists in our world and every rich pig carries part of satan in himself

>>14661887
Don't worry. They will beg us for that dish of feces and pig's blood one day.

>>14658210
It's a legitimate source of protein if you live in a poor area and you get swarmed by locusts or something.
Otherwise, no.

>>14658210
I ate some fried bee pupaes in china and it was delicious and nutritious as fuck

>>14662142
>eating bugmen food

>>14661848
I live in the US. You never saw anyone eating fried insects or those suckers with scorpions in them? They were everywhere for decades. Now it's hard to find them.

>>14658210
yes, they are legitmate
no, they do not taste good
yes, you are a faggot

>>14658210
They already feed you bugs and tell you it's a delicacy.

>>14658210
You thought grain was bad for the human digestion system? Just wait until you see what bug paste is going to do

>>14658336

You can't process the bugs on an individual level. We could farm 10 billion cows every year in a giant box which collects all the methane and runoff very efficiently. Cows are processed en masse, think giant grinders and blenders and pulpers and screeners and pasters.

Not a single piece of the cow is wasted. There is your efficient, and environmentally friendly, protein product. What is wrong with this?

>>14662985
>You never saw anyone eating fried insects or those suckers with scorpions in them?
Nope. Nowhere in the EU have I seen that. But ok scorpions aren't exactly common here.

>>14663796
Get on my level, fag. Insects with a few spices are delicious.

>>14663793
Cows are not, in any way, environmentally friendly. Eat chicken, pork, or literally any non-ruminant animal

>>14663925
>ruminant animal
>environmentally unfriendly

Nonsense

>>14658210
bugs are high protein but quite toxic

>>14658331
>It's smiling at me

>>14660849
>left of pic is fat, ugly and weak, morbidly obese and easily killed/overpowered, low metabolism and poor digestive health, eats way more than necessary and is a burden
>right of pic is fit, lean and with a decent weight, with a decently pronounced jaw and jowels
>is wearing working clothes implying strength born from labor, is capable of supporting himself
bugbros?

>>14658410
why though? it's surely smarter to reveal to no one what they're doing and just do it over time, rather than tell you what they're planning?

>>14663793
Cows are comparatively extremely inefficient at converting plants to protein. Insects due to their small size are much better at it. Also insects can process food waste and other stuff we can't/dont feed to cow. You can keep cows in massive pens fed only corn, but that's more intensive than growing corn in the first place. Insects can be grown in giant vats no problem and they can eat pretty much any food waste possible.

>>14661663
I used to eat bugs myself, it's astounding how picky and fussy westoids are about their food, despite having the most robust food screening programmes in the world, they eat nothing but processed garbage and the same 3 meals every fucking day.

>>14661887
why are insects disgusting?

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All WEF A.I. Bots and one weirdo leftist loser who lives here.

>>14661887
This. If they wanted to make eating insects popular they could just throw insect products on the market in a visually appealing form and let people try them and decide for themselves. I'd have no problem with that. But instead they're running a propaganda campaign of videos targeting people who never tried eating insects with the message "We, the elites, can force you to eat disgusting things and there's nothing you can do about it." Why not offer insect based products as just another meal? Why the imperative of "you have to eat literal fried bugs while any other food will inevitably be outlawed"? It's a humiliating demonstration of power, nothing else.

>>14663993
Insects strive in rotten conditions like decaying bodies, fecal matter etc. Evolution taught us to develop disgust in order to avoid health hazard. It's funny how people like you deny evolution, or actively de-evolve in order to satisfy superficial social conformity forced upon you by a malicious group.

>>14661887
>just abusing you like good cattle is just not good enough for them, they need that sweet extra bit of humiliation, thats why you will be forced to eat bugs
>>14664036
>It's a humiliating demonstration of power, nothing else.

Agree. Humiliating your enemies is power over them, and helps to destroy their will and identity as individuals.

Remember, the globalists HATE the individual. They want pod people, hive-minded communities, drones, NPCs, slaves, robots, etc. whatever you want to call them.

Cannot have your livestock thinking for themselves or valuing their own life over the collective.

>>14663951
This. Gorillions of discrete DNA packets have magnitudes more chances of causing Spontaneous Prion Disease than any large animal breeding and eating could (approaching zero)

>>14664041
We should start breeding insects like cattle. Cows have been bred over a millennia to be domesticated and tasty for humans, the same can't be said of grasshoppers is the thing.

>>14664060
Vehicle sized grasshoppers and bus sized maggots? Saw that movie. It didn't turn out well.

>>14664037
The cybercuck dystopia is nigh

>>14664068
No, we only need to breed them to be large enough for humans to have sex with.

>>14664081
Most millennial/zoomer women already look like giant bloated maggots squeezed into yoga pants, just put a larvae head with pincers on them.

>>14664041
Eating poop is perfectly safe if you do it right