Thank God our child goes to a private Christian school.

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Originally posted by Mr. Kook:
Biblically speaking, grasshoppers and crickets are the only clean bugs you should eat.

That said, I am content to let my chickens eat the bugs and I eat the eggs and chickens.

This dystopian hellscape is depressing.

Biblically speaking, bacon is "unclean."

Regardless of one's stance on eating bugs, unless one is Jewish, the Old Testament might not be the best source of dietary guidance.

My quick search found it takes about 500 crickets to get 30g of protein. I assume they are processing the crickets into some type of powder. Im not sure what all foods can be "recreated" with this powder.


I think in good faith the .gov should start out implementing these food on people getting free school lunches or other .gov assistance. You know, to show how great of a substitution bugs are and how well received.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

<Uruk-hai voice on>
Looks like spider's back on the menu, boys!
<Uruk-hai voice off>

If they're up front about it, I don't care. I've been in snake alley, I've seen Japanese sushi chefs at work, and they tell me, though I have not personally seen this, that in some areas they eat cow brains...I don't partake, but whatever floats someone's boat, as long as it's clearly labeled.

If only there were a natural way to convert bugs into delicious food while benefiting the environment. Besides chickens, of course, because they scare people when they do that.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Leviticus, Chapter 11:

22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

23 But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

Have to get verse 21 too, which describes the characteristics.

21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;

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Originally posted by maladat:

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Originally posted by Mr. Kook:
Biblically speaking, grasshoppers and crickets are the only clean bugs you should eat.

That said, I am content to let my chickens eat the bugs and I eat the eggs and chickens.

This dystopian hellscape is depressing.

Biblically speaking, bacon is "unclean."

Regardless of one's stance on eating bugs, unless one is Jewish, the Old Testament might not be the best source of dietary guidance.

Yes, pork and shellfish are unclean. If you want to debate food laws and theology, we can do that in another thread. I am convinced God did not change His law and we are still expected to keep it as it applies within our lives.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
If only there were a natural way to convert bugs into delicious food while benefiting the environment. Besides chickens, of course, because they scare people when they do that.

Yup.

Dreadful!
We must eat only vegan non-animal foods.
We must have greater respect for insects as they are people too.

Meh. At SERE school I'd eat all I could find. Funny what you'll eat if hungry enough.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
Meh. At SERE school I'd eat all I could find. Funny what you'll eat if hungry enough.

SERE school, yeah, sure, in that environment I'd eat them too. In any survival situation I'd eat what I needed to... but when's the last time you dined on bugs, just because you could and wanted that delicacy? When's the last time a friend or family member offered to take you out for a birthday meal, anywhere you wanted to go... and you said, "ya, gotta be either Pablo's Cockroach Tacos or The Cricket Shack"?

I'm a somewhat adventurous eater and I'll try some exotic foods, and I don't fault anyone who chooses to try exotic dishes... but there is a big difference between survival eating or sampling some exotic dish, and adopting a regular sustenance diet of eating bugs.

If these schools offered parents/ students the option of sampling bugs, along with other dishes on International Foods day, and some wanted to try bugs then ok, I'm fine with that. Little gross, but ok.

But, when schools (governments) actively work to indoctrinate kids/ parents with only one side of a policy debate, contradicting established healthy eating practices accepted and adopted over millenia, well, I'm not ok with that.

Show me the results of a 10 year, or even a 5 year scientific study, of thousands of voluntary participants, who were medically evaluated at the beginning and ends of the study, that ate nothing but bugs and seaweed for the entire duration of the study...

... then show me video after video of the heads of states, world leaders, members of parliaments and Congress, dining on 5 course bug meals...I wanna see Trudeau, Macron, Merkel, Biden, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Newsome, dining on imported Black Soldier Fly larvae pate' and cricket paste seaweed crackers...

...then we can talk about indoctrinating kids on the virtues of eating bugs.

I am thawing a couple steaks for dinner. Just sayin'.

Doing the whole 'forcing the kids' thing seems a bit dated.

If they really wanted kids to learn to eat bugs, either they'd try to forcibly prevent it, or pay some 'influencers' to come up with the "Cricket Challenge" on tiktokgrambook.

Compared to some of the school lunches I ate, bugs would be an improvement.

And seriously, are any schools actually feeding children bugs? Do you think any school could get away with it if it tried? This is some crap story stirring you up over the crackpots who think we actually should eat bugs. But they will never succeed unless things get terrible. Like end of the world terrible. Relax.

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Originally posted by Tejas421:
Interesting. A colleague of my father, who was a POW of the Japanese, said they ate insects (cockroaches I think) for their protein during captivity.

Many years ago we had a neighbor who spent some 3 years in Japanese POW camp. He told me what it was like, and it was not good. Nearly half of the POWs died of starvation or torture. They ate bugs because that was all that was available. He told of how careful they had to be when eating bugs like crickets because of the sharp little barbs on their hind legs.

I like seaweed on my sushi rolls.

If it the end of the world, and we’re smoke checkin bad dudes and there’s no supplies, I’d consider eating whatever I can forage.

I’ll say this, where I live and the school district we’re in; if any person within the school administration ever decided to have our children eat bugs and “alternate sources of protein”, there will be pyres burning for a very long time. Very conservative, anti-woke, tired of the BS crap going on people who are absolutely solid in their foundation of America, family, and community.