On Eating Bugs
The 'argument' is that cultures around the world eat insects.
There is a very simple and scientific reason for this:
THEY'RE FUCKING STARVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The whole history of sushi is that coastal towns were devasted by Sun Namis and the like so they had no fire wood so WHEREAS they WOULD HAVE COOKED the fish they couldn't so they ate it raw and called it a delicacy.
Fast forward to today where you can make fire with a BIC lighter from the convenient store (I was shown how to make fire with a stick, a piece of bark and dry moss in New Guinea Highlands) then eating raw fish is JUST FUCKING STUPID.
Every single Japanese and Okinawan I've met had STOMACH PROBLEMS.
There is a very simple and scientific reason for this:
The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
In your stomach
and out your mouth.
Parasitism. Despite the Raw Food Nutters that will probably get you sick or killed there is a REASON why we had to strike up a compromise with this planet that would have US as sous chef special of the day.
Twice-cooked pork was known by the ancient chinee well before microbiological science. It doesn't take an idiot to know that if you're going to eat such a foul beast that heating up meat even to the point of CARBONIZING IT the trichonella worm cysts in the flesh will be all like: D'you say sumpin?
Butt, if you heat it up a bit, let it sit for 15 minutes the worms will GERMINATE and then you can cook it again and roast the little bastards straight to wormy hell and have a nice Porkworm Fu Yung (even though the blood type diet restricts pork for ALL blood types due to the lectins).
Just because there is a rich history of people doing dumbass shit doesn't VALIDATE doing dumbass shit.
Enter The Bugon.
[Bruce Lee screechy sounds here]
I'll pass on all of the other topics covered by those who don't want to eat bugs because you've already herd the arguments about anaphyalxis from chitin and untold (untested, unknown) parasite infections - remember the twicea-cook poak? Did they twice-cook Clicket?
No, my focus is on the observation that I made in my Loose Ends stack:
Where the fuck are all of the bugs?
I've been working outside quite a bit this season and tyically I would be doing a Lapland Slapstick dance that would make Jackie Chan meets the Three Stooges look tame.
The bugs in the Grain Ghetto of ILL Annoyed used to number in the trillions per acre and that was JUST the corn rootwom aka cucumber beetles. The rest from the microscopic No See 'Um's to HORSEFLIES that made you think someone stuck a hot sewing needle in you are Not Seen ‘Um.
Bug Bee Gone.
Where the fuck did they go?
I'll repeat it as many times as is necessary. I have an Army Field Manual from the 1930s that says if you enter an area but there is no insect or bird sounds then proceed with caution. If you see dead bugs or birds then get the fuck out of there. No, they din't print that but that's what it meant.
Where's all the bugs? I mean: "Natural" bugs?
Because if its like the Israeli army punk kids going against their own book that they should NEVER cut down a fruit tree but they bulldozed 3000 year old olive trees just to piss with the Palestinians
https://politicalartfranzetta.com/devouring-palestine/
then the ONLY thing that it could be replaced with is a grafted and/or GMO abomination.
If the 'natural' bugs are gone then the only thing that they could be raising to feed their human pets will be GMBs
Genetically Modified Bugs.
So, yeah, allergy to chitin will probably kill a great number of people with the Assassins in White Coats shrugging: We don't know what that happened? And, yeah, parasitic disease will skyrocket: We don't know where they're coming from - must be Climate Change. But W.H.O. knows what is in the GMBs to cause what to happen inside the GMHs ?
Genetically Modified Humans - in case you didn’t get it.
I am also seeing reduced numbers of all arthropods on my 4 acres. I have owned this property for 30 years and gardened the Hell out of it so I know what was here back in the 90's. I grew cut flowers for market for a few years back then and the levels of bees, spiders, grasshoppers, everything was just incredible then. We had so many native bumbles that they would weigh down the flower stalks. I was so used to bees buzzing around me out there I had no fear of being stung and never was. We would have to shake the garden spiders off the pickings as we went. It was really the funnest thing I ever did!
Now everything is still here but not remotely in the numbers I used to see. The Bumbles that were so delightful are now a rare sight. I have neighbors around me doing hives and things sound okay with them but the native insects are another story. We have these magnificent spiders here that everyone calls the zigzag spider. They can be nearly 4 inches across and make huge circular webs that can be nearly 4 feet across! They are always a welcome sight for me but they are disappearing along with the large grasshopper populations they depend on for food. Whatever these psychos are doing that is causing this it is proof they care nothing about the environment or life on this planet. Is it the crop spraying? Is it the chem trailing? Is it the millimeter waves? Or all three and more? I have been wanting to ask you if you have seen the "spider web"/filament drops I have seen here on multiple occasions. I am talking about 30+ foot long hanks of multiple strands coming in by the hundreds and actually shining in the sun like silver. After a little while everything is covered in it. This occurs once or twice a year here. What the fuck is it and why are they doing it?
Well, then this explains all those web things I’m seeing out side, that glow and actually throw light! I actually caught my first one on my cameras outside, thinking to myself what in the hell am I seeing? So, to keep my sanity I went outside and sure enough these things are everywhere! Yet, I’ve not seen a spider in 3 years! Not that I’m a fan, but we need them.
It’s now to the point that we cannot even enjoy our own backyards these days and that really steams my clams!