Great, another "Gosh, what's the difference from eating steak?" doofus.
We need to get over pretensions of "the distinction is nonsense". The bug-eater proposal is not a suggestion that we eat wee little fillets of insect muscle. It's a suggestion that we eat whole bugs – shells, heads, eyes, guts, everything.
How often do you eat ground cow? No, not ground beef; ground cow? Heads, hide, bones, hooves, guts, and all? You never have and never will? Exactly.
I'm not saying we need to balk at eating animals whole when it comes to bugs; after all, many people *do* eat insects, as you say. But for those who'll need persuasion to get there, let's not pretend that bugs are like teeny chuck steaks or dot-sized lobster tails, and sigh "get over it" when people aren't fooled.
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We need to make 10 new Tsar Bombas and drop them on Kentucky. What a festering shithole. Nothing but Muslims, Atheists and Wiccans.
... he said, for some reason, regarding a place that is severely deficient in Muslims, Atheists, and Wiccans.
We used to use those awful creatures as fish bait, but now it is all exported to those weirdos in Japan who'll eat anything.
No. The big lobster-eating countries are the US, Canada, and European countries like France, Spain, and Italy. Not Japan.
Is that why 90% of vegans are severely undernourished?
Is that why 90% of statistics are made up?
The whole "moral" thing is a scam too. Humans are omnivores, ignoring that is a falsehood, a falsehood is a lie, therefore vegetarianism is unethical.
Ooh, let me play!
"Humans are warlike, ignoring that is a falsehood, a falsehood is a lie, therefore peace is unethical."
Did I do that right?
Great, another "Gosh, what's the difference from eating steak?" doofus. We need to get over pretensions of "the distinction is nonsense". The bug-eater proposal is not a suggestion that we eat wee little fillets of insect muscle. It's a suggestion that we eat whole bugs – shells, heads, eyes, guts, everything. How often do you eat ground cow? No, not ground beef; ground cow? Heads, hide, bones, hooves, guts, and all? You never have and never will? Exactly. I'm not saying we need to balk at eating animals whole when it comes to bugs; after all, many people *do* eat insects, as you say. But for those who'll need persuasion to get there, let's not pretend that bugs are like teeny chuck steaks or dot-sized lobster tails, and sigh "get over it" when people aren't fooled.