favorite finger food, bugs?!

[alxian]

would you eat bugs to suppliment your diet if you knew that they were much better for you than animal meat and junk food?

more nnutritious, very low curve for the taste and texture, less wasteful in terms of resources when considered against raising cattle chickens pigs etc.


it would be like agriculture in terms of raising bugs in very controlled environments (further increasing safety), and morally culling insects is easier, UV exposure or heat sources (killing and homogenizing and cooking in one easy step).

in terms of grubs they would make excellent finger food. properly prepared they can easily replace chips or popcorn while greatly increasing our daily nutrient intake.

we could replace sausages with worms or bigger grubs, again greatly incresing the nutritional value of a hotdog and avoiding some of the safety hazards of storing and preparing meat.

lastly bug meat makes for a much better replacement for real meat than tofu or other vegetarian products, its still meat of course so you won't be a vegetarian.

save a cow, eat a grub.

[infamous]

Originally Posted by alxian

save a cow, eat a grub.

Gag........recth.......vomit.
I'll have my steak medium rare if you don't mind.

[learnin to learn]

ummmmmmm... I would rather eat a nice bloody steak!!!! Why would you want to eat bugs???? I know I ate some when I was little, but hey I didnt know any better...

[infamous]

Originally Posted by alxian

its still meat of course so you won't be a vegetarian.

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I'd prefer rather to have nothing but broccoli to eat.

Make that with a side of barbecued chicken.
And some french fries.
For desert, peach yogurt.

And to finish things off, some apricot brandy, yummm,yum.................

[rockytriton]

I wouldn't doubt if there are bugs in things like hot dogs. At any rate, I would probably eat bugs if they were ground up into regular meat-like food, such as hamburgers, but only if they tasted as good or better. I certainly wouldn't make the substitution just to save a cow though.

[alxian]

some bugs are less complex than the livestock we destroy for food.

grubs can be grown in earth that is perfectly sanitized with only the nutrients the grubs require to grow.

much like plants you eat the bugs can be as heatly.

plus they have 3 to 4 times as much protein, that alone without the extra chemical compounds a cow needs to survive means less cleaning is required (if any) when preparing insect stock for consumption.


a perfect analogue is in the island, we grown entire animals (clones) let them live sham lives until we need then, then brutally murder them for food where so much of the animal goes to waste.

bugs represent the agnate, where bugs can be used in full or nearly, while save for the entomologists no one would cry foul at culling a swarm of grasshopper or locust. slaughtering animals for food though does raise moral issues as those animals are emotional and intelligent.


i imagine a day when informed consumers could pay half as much for a kilo of BBQ meal worms to 3 dollars for a bag of lays of less than half the weight.

of course finding a live one in every bag might not be something to advertise until after peeps have gotten used to the idea of munching on bugs.

[infamous]

Originally Posted by rockytriton

I certainly wouldn't make the substitution just to save a cow though.

Hey rocky.....do you think this save the cow movement got started in India? You know, I've heard that cows are worshipped in that part of the world. Maybe if we started worshiping bugs here in America we could start a Save the Bugs Movement. Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha

[rockytriton]

Originally Posted by infamous

Hey rocky.....do you think this save the cow movement got started in India? You know, I've heard that cows are worshipped in that part of the world. Maybe if we started worshiping bugs here in America we could start a Save the Bugs Movement. Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha

ha, yea, they also worship rats. An Indian friend of mine told me he didn't eat beef because of the sacred cow and stuff, but after a year of hanging out with me at work, I got him eating burgers.

oh, by the way, the "Save the Bugs" movement is already in practice by Tibetan monks I believe

Originally Posted by alxian

a perfect analogue is in the island, we grown entire animals (clones) let them live sham lives until we need then, then brutally murder them for food where so much of the animal goes to waste.

sheesh... learn the difference between kill and murder

Originally Posted by alxian

.... as those animals are emotional and intelligent.

You consider a cow to be intelligent? By the way, I noticed how again you think of one thing as being lower than another thing. For instance how you thought it was low for someone to clean houses for a living and you now think that a bug is lower than a cow but you still think how it is brutal murder to kill something.

[alxian]

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ok fine so any one cow isn't very important and a herd won't amount to much in the long run either, but its still wrong to kill thinking and feeling animals as evolved as cow pigs sheep... chickens... when there is an alternative.

when did class systems go out of favor? are you telling me that as long as you are on top of the food chain its ok to kill anything we want for our survival?

would you kill and eat dolphins if they were plentiful and easy to catch?

[rockytriton]

Originally Posted by alxian

when did class systems go out of favor? are you telling me that as long as you are on top of the food chain its ok to kill anything we want for our survival?

It's ok to kill any animal that is raised for the purpose of eating as long as it is not a pet animal such as a dog, cat, horse, etc. Also, in a time of need when you are starving and there is nothing else left except for bugs and vegetables, yes it is ok to eat any type of animal including the last surviving manatee or bengal tiger.

Originally Posted by alxian

would you kill and eat dolphins if they were plentiful and easy to catch?

Would I kill them myself? No. Would I buy cans of dolphin meat? Probably, if they were becoming overpopulated, but I wouldn't generally eat them because there has been scientific research that shows they are intelligent creatures. A cow is not intelligent, it thinks about eating grass, other than that, it's pretty much an automaton just like a worm.