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/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/SanitationTransportation/ucm056174.htm

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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