16 May
2013
16 May
'13
6:33 p.m.
Incidental insects that hitch-hike on produce, as with insect fragments
in ground pepper, are a world of difference from a plate of fried grubs
or a wormburger with a side-order of flies.
Pork is highly resource-friendly: you can feed hogs on cooked municipal
garbage, which was common practice through the 1960s in most parts of
the USA and many parts of Europe. This is the reason why food waste
collection was separated from dry trash collection during that era. In
China, hogs are often fed on agricultural waste.
What differentiates scripture from "silly cultural taboos" that some
have said are obsolete? To agnostics and atheists, it's all the same.
But here the principle of freedom of conscience applies, especially
since empirical conclusions are not possible about deities. And in any
case, the world knows what happens when we start targeting minorities by
way of grand plans to forcibly change the culture, and the Jews were the
primary victims of it in living memory. Anyone who even dared to
suggest that Jews (or Muslims) be obligated to eat pork, would be
exposed as some kind of Nazi.
"No one will be forced to eat insects by any force other than meat
getting expensive." Right, and no one will be forced to sleep under
bridges, in alleys, and occasionally in dumpsters, by any force other
than apartment & house rents getting expensive. Who wants to go first?
Economic coercion IS coercion.
Insects are Food for about 25% of the world's population, and Dirt for
about 75% of the world's population. Pork is Dirt for Muslims and
Jews. Fish are Dirt in some parts of Africa. And ice-cold beer is at
least Not-Food in the UK. These values are all subjective, since in
theory anything that has calories and isn't overtly toxic can be used as
fuel for human body metabolism.
But the central point isn't about the bugs per se. It's about the
Oligarchy manipulating people and using economic coercion to force
people to do things that disgust them, as an exercise in pure power over
others. It's about power and domination and subjugation, all in the
name of enabling the .0000001% to live a lifestyle that's way beyond
royalty, while riding on your back.
-G.
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On 13-05-16-Thu 2:21 PM, Shawn Lesniak wrote:
Do you eat produce? Then you're already eating
insects
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInfor…
excerpt: "RAISINS, GOLDEN Insects and insect eggs
(AOAC 969.42 & MPM-V76) 10 or more whole or equivalent insects and 35
Drosophila eggs per 8 oz."
Pork is verboten for Jews and Muslims because of their scripture, not
because we haven't found a way to force them to eat it. Eating pork is
not as resource friendly as eating insects.
I don't eat meat, that doesn't make meat dirt to me.
No one will be forced to eat insects by any force other than meat
getting expensive.
Your categories beg the question, are insects dirt? I say dirt is dirt,
food is food, paper is paper, and poop is poop. If you're living in the
right area you will eat people, fish, insects, or diet coke. If insects
produce nutritious food at a decent price, why not? Seriously!
The types of insects being considered for food (caterpillars and
mealworms specifically) do not eat sewage, btw. If you know of any
insects that somehow eat sewage and become edible food, let me know
because I've never heard of that.
I've heard of plants using processed cow dung as fertilizer though, and
I'm ok with eating it, are you?
If you put aside the false equivalences of your 4 categories, can you
still make a case against insects as food?
-G. (creative commons; non-commercial use, with
attribution)
you objected to the list being archived with your name, how would you
like to be cited if your article is republished elsewhere?
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