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Who exactly is "they"? The... Big Bug industry?

propogandist 4y ago
Insects are being promoted as a way to hit UN’s sustainable development goals [1] There’s also an industry emerging, with big pushes from organizations like WEF, to normalize eating bugs [2]. Investors are getting in on this trend too [3] 1. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/6/557 https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/6/557 2. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-i... 3. https://fortune.com/2022/05/24/war-ukraine-big-ag-insect-feed-protix-fao/ https://fortune.com/2022/05/24/war-ukraine-big-ag-insect-fee...
- silksowed 4y ago
  in what world will people eat bugs instead of beef, do bugs taste anywhere as good as beef? all the push from the supply side doesn't fix the demand problem.
  - kombucha13 4y ago
    Honestly they are really delicious and satiate in a similar way to meat. Try some grasshoppers next chance you get.
    - silksowed 4y ago
      ill try anything !
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  Is there actually anything wrong with normalizing eating bugs? Like, get meat if you want but don't be a baby about insects?
  - norwalkbear 4y ago
    Yea insects typically have a high amount of allergens to humans. It's why bioreactors for things like insulin, igb, etc avoid insects cells if they can.
    - Dylan16807 4y ago
      You want to go as low as possible for a medicine, but how common are allergies to the kind of breeds that make reasonable food? For comparison, it would be silly to say we shouldn't normalize eating peanuts because of the allergy risk.
      - norwalkbear 4y ago
        Are you kidding? Insect cells used in bioreactors would be an order of magnitude safer than possible insect food ( medical grade is much much higher standard than food grade), and people still avoid it as much as possible . That should tell you "food grade" insects have enormous risk associated with them.
        Dylan16807 4y ago
        Well if I look at peanuts again, an order of magnitude safer would still be something to avoid very strongly in bioreactors. At this point I'll keep an eye out but insects are such a broad and mostly unexplored category that I'm not convinced there's an unavoidable and crippling allergen risk.
thematrixturtle 4y ago
"Eat the Bugs" has become a far-right/anti-woke catchphrase. This video is typical: https://youtu.be/8_8LTUmHWP0 https://youtu.be/8_8LTUmHWP0
- lettergram 4y ago
  Lol what did I just watch? From a quick search it appears eating of bugs specifically refers to the WEF push: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-might-be-eating-insects-soon/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-migh... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-i... don’t know about the catch phrase or how it’s “anti-woke” but interesting
  - greycol 4y ago
    "Eat the bugs", "Woke", "Socialist" can all be used in a positive way it's just that they are also often used by the US right wing in a negative way. You'll understand that when Alex Jones is calling a democrat "woke" he is using it in implying being woke is a bad thing. "Eat the bugs" is similar and is more common in the anti globalist conspiracist circles.
norwalkbear 4y ago
Lobbyists exist for everything.

Insects are being promoted as a way to hit UN’s sustainable development goals [1] There’s also an industry emerging, with big pushes from organizations like WEF, to normalize eating bugs [2]. Investors are getting in on this trend too [3] 1. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/6/557 https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/12/6/557 2. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-i... 3. https://fortune.com/2022/05/24/war-ukraine-big-ag-insect-feed-protix-fao/ https://fortune.com/2022/05/24/war-ukraine-big-ag-insect-fee...

silksowed 4y ago
in what world will people eat bugs instead of beef, do bugs taste anywhere as good as beef? all the push from the supply side doesn't fix the demand problem.
- kombucha13 4y ago
  Honestly they are really delicious and satiate in a similar way to meat. Try some grasshoppers next chance you get.
  - silksowed 4y ago
    ill try anything !
Dylan16807 4y ago
Is there actually anything wrong with normalizing eating bugs? Like, get meat if you want but don't be a baby about insects?
- norwalkbear 4y ago
  Yea insects typically have a high amount of allergens to humans. It's why bioreactors for things like insulin, igb, etc avoid insects cells if they can.
  - Dylan16807 4y ago
    You want to go as low as possible for a medicine, but how common are allergies to the kind of breeds that make reasonable food? For comparison, it would be silly to say we shouldn't normalize eating peanuts because of the allergy risk.
    - norwalkbear 4y ago
      Are you kidding? Insect cells used in bioreactors would be an order of magnitude safer than possible insect food ( medical grade is much much higher standard than food grade), and people still avoid it as much as possible . That should tell you "food grade" insects have enormous risk associated with them.
      - Dylan16807 4y ago
        Well if I look at peanuts again, an order of magnitude safer would still be something to avoid very strongly in bioreactors. At this point I'll keep an eye out but insects are such a broad and mostly unexplored category that I'm not convinced there's an unavoidable and crippling allergen risk.

thematrixturtle 4y ago

"Eat the Bugs" has become a far-right/anti-woke catchphrase. This video is typical: https://youtu.be/8_8LTUmHWP0 https://youtu.be/8_8LTUmHWP0

lettergram 4y ago
Lol what did I just watch? From a quick search it appears eating of bugs specifically refers to the WEF push: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-might-be-eating-insects-soon/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/good-grub-why-we-migh... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-insects-the-role-they-deserve-in-our-food-systems/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/why-we-need-to-give-i... don’t know about the catch phrase or how it’s “anti-woke” but interesting
- greycol 4y ago
  "Eat the bugs", "Woke", "Socialist" can all be used in a positive way it's just that they are also often used by the US right wing in a negative way. You'll understand that when Alex Jones is calling a democrat "woke" he is using it in implying being woke is a bad thing. "Eat the bugs" is similar and is more common in the anti globalist conspiracist circles.

norwalkbear 4y ago

Lobbyists exist for everything.