Edible bugs confirmed to be a public health risk due to parasites.
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This is nonsense.
There are dismembered chunks of bugs in every jar of peanut butter, in every loaf of bread. We are all eating bugs already, just unintentionally, because it's frankly close to impossible to keep them from getting into our food - they want to eat it just as much as we do.
This is nonsense, there is a massive difference between unintentionally eating occasional bugs and eating bugs as a main protein source.
The only difference I see is in the mass consumed. The effect of that is increased chance of infection, sure.
...But the chance of infection is already there, and across billions of people, It's already happening every single day.
Did you know that one drop of pure nicotine is deadly. People consume entire packs of cigarettes in a day, and don't die. It's almost like the volume matters.
No, this is a massive fallacy and frankly irrational thought. The difference in disease per capita per bug eating countries and non bug eating countries is insurmountable factually. China is the most prevalent case of this, most se Asia follows as well as Africa. Bugs carry more disease per population versus any other wild protein species period. They also have no nutrient density, when you look at what a bug is the protein is junk protein.
The problems with the diseases in bugs is the volume of bugs needed to feed someone. A single cow can feed several people, but it takes a ton of bugs to feed one person. The number of bugs needed drastically increases the chances of one of those bugs having a disease that taints the entire thing.
This is another good point against it. It's the same when they talk about plant based fake meat. They'll talk up all about how it allegedly tastes the same, but I have yet to hear any of them claim it has the same nutritional value.
When I drink a single glass of milk it tastes delicious and makes me feel considerably better. When I chug a gallon of milk I puke before I even come close to finishing, feel awful and will likely have a horrible shit soon enough. Almost like the mass consumed is a very fucking important variable.
This might be the most retarded take I've seen, well done.
Which you shouldn't be doing in the first place. Humans downregulate lactase production as we age and shouldn't be consuming milk at all past a certain point but both the cereal industry and beverage market still heavily rely on cattle milk production as various cultures are that entrenched in milk consumption. Lactose intolerance is not a binary condition where someone is or is not intolerant to the presence of lactose. Symptoms vary as much as the human population does where some who consume milk will only have mild nausea and maybe bloating after consumption while others will have full on IBS, bloody stool, and severe gut pains because adult humans are not meant to consume milk.
Mass consumed not making a difference...
You do realize that people take rat poison to control blood pressure, right? And squirt deadly nightshade into their eyes to do eye exams, right? Mass consumed makes a HUGE difference.
Give a dog a pound of milk chocolate and it'll be mildly sick. Give it a pound of baker's chocolate, which gram for gram contains a huge amount more cocoa, and it'll be a vet visit at minimum. Just cocoa, totally edible. But the mass consumed makes a huge difference.