Reminder that almost none of the people pushing you to reduce your quality of life to combat “climate change” are willing to do anything to reduce theirs.
Wagyu beef and private jets for them, bug burgers and the pod for you.
More likely they will just make it prohibitively expensive, either through regulations or by severely cutting down demand (eg. all but high-end restaurants stop serving it) so it becomes more akin to a luxury item.
They're a fairly popular snack food in Central and South America, so if immigration trends continue they way they have been they won't even have to push cricket eating on the population: it'll just be part of the culture for the majority of the (new) population.
A guy I used to work with from Oaxaca used to eat them as a snack. Would bring them in a giant plastic bag and leave them in the fridge. Perhaps it's just a Mexico/Central America thing.
On the other hand, he never needed to send a site-wide email asking who stole his crickets out of the fridge...
He let me try one once. Weird texture without much flavor. Not something I would go out of my way to eat. If anything they'll start out using it as a filler material in things like sausages and premade foods like they do with textured soy protein.
When I visited Greece in '92, I noticed that the residential back yards were totally "infested" with the same kinds of snails that the local markets sold.
Like your crickets, they're not .. horrible, if you can stand the rubbery texture when cooked right, but when push comes to shove, that's protein that you can gather with your veggies ...
Though the thought that snails is exactly where dogs get worms from, makes me not want to eat snails.
You don't just one day decide to eat crickets by the handful
Someone had to process and sell them; he wasn't farming that many crickets himself.
This was in a part of the US with a large Hispanic population
Demand for crickets in the US among the native population is effectively zero
The fact he could get them at all suggests they're popular enough to sustain a market for them in a place where they aren't eaten at all by the native population. This isn't exactly street tacos we're talking about.
Sure he wasn't getting them at a pet food store? Or a bait shop? Just possibilities I'm wondering if you considered, because that's where you'll find crickets for sale, both dead and alive.
Where I live, "live bait" is kind of a misnomer; it'll simply be real bait (minnows, worms, bugs, etc) but dead and perhaps processed/flavoured some how (as opposed to, say, smelly lures and that orange paste stuff.) Reason: The province hates introduced species, except for the domesticated ones. They don't want exotic baits escaping to the wild. So they'll package "live" bait all kinds of ways.
Dunno if anyone would want to eat this stuff, but humans are known to be eaters of anything and everything.
Reminder that almost none of the people pushing you to reduce your quality of life to combat “climate change” are willing to do anything to reduce theirs.
Wagyu beef and private jets for them, bug burgers and the pod for you.
I will eat propagandists and their sponsors before I eat bugs.
I’ll bring the seasoning.
I honestly fear they will try to ban meat one day in the name climate change
More likely they will just make it prohibitively expensive, either through regulations or by severely cutting down demand (eg. all but high-end restaurants stop serving it) so it becomes more akin to a luxury item.
They're on the side of the poor, y'know, by ensuring that only the rich can eat meat.
Except for the moose-slimes for their evil blood sacrifice festivals, of course.
Last year where I live we had an entire family of turkeys move into the neighborhood. Like 4 hens and a fuckton of chicks.
Climate change a.k.a the effects of a ruined economy thanks to gloablist meddling.
Everyone at the Washington Post should eat shit 365 days a year
We need to literally start tarring and feathering the globalist propagandists.
They're a fairly popular snack food in Central and South America, so if immigration trends continue they way they have been they won't even have to push cricket eating on the population: it'll just be part of the culture for the majority of the (new) population.
A guy I used to work with from Oaxaca used to eat them as a snack. Would bring them in a giant plastic bag and leave them in the fridge. Perhaps it's just a Mexico/Central America thing.
That's disgusting.
On the other hand, he never needed to send a site-wide email asking who stole his crickets out of the fridge...
He let me try one once. Weird texture without much flavor. Not something I would go out of my way to eat. If anything they'll start out using it as a filler material in things like sausages and premade foods like they do with textured soy protein.
When I visited Greece in '92, I noticed that the residential back yards were totally "infested" with the same kinds of snails that the local markets sold.
Like your crickets, they're not .. horrible, if you can stand the rubbery texture when cooked right, but when push comes to shove, that's protein that you can gather with your veggies ...
Though the thought that snails is exactly where dogs get worms from, makes me not want to eat snails.
Oaxacans just like eating bugs
So like one person your worked with ate it and you ascribe it to an entire continent and a half?
The fact he could get them at all suggests they're popular enough to sustain a market for them in a place where they aren't eaten at all by the native population. This isn't exactly street tacos we're talking about.
Sure he wasn't getting them at a pet food store? Or a bait shop? Just possibilities I'm wondering if you considered, because that's where you'll find crickets for sale, both dead and alive.
Where I live, "live bait" is kind of a misnomer; it'll simply be real bait (minnows, worms, bugs, etc) but dead and perhaps processed/flavoured some how (as opposed to, say, smelly lures and that orange paste stuff.) Reason: The province hates introduced species, except for the domesticated ones. They don't want exotic baits escaping to the wild. So they'll package "live" bait all kinds of ways.
Dunno if anyone would want to eat this stuff, but humans are known to be eaters of anything and everything.