Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape

I would fucking love to get my protein from insects - they're prohibitively expensive.

Also, outrage bait.

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I looked up cricket flour and it's not cheap, also some complaints that it's not real flour like for baking

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- Nothing is like wheat flour for baking.
  
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- Lol
  
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- complaints
  
  flour just refers to how the bulk food stuff is ground up into a powder. Do people really not know this?
  
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I for sure thought this was bait but the article is hosted in climatedepot and is more an earnest effort to highlight alternatives to meat than anything

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- Yeah, I kind of figured that it's probably a lot more innocent than the baity headline suggests.
  
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Yeah, I was curious to see the comments because I think OP was expecting something similar to facebook or reddit. But I feel like most people here recognize this for the lame rage bait that it is. Only idiot Fox News watching conservatives freak out about this shit.

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Crickets and other insects meant for consumption are actually pretty expensive, so that cant be real. There is so much cheaper food that you would actually want to eat.

I love trying out insect based food, and every time it was a lot more expensive, drier, and tasted worse than other options, so I cant imagine something like this actually going mainstream.

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They are really expensive because no one is buying them but people who have time and money to spend on changing their habits.
BUT! They are actually pretty cheap to raise yourself. Crickets can eat leftovers and parts of vegetable you sometimes don't want to eat like potato peels. We used to do that to feed our lizards and spiders at home. I guess that preparing them for human consumption would be a bit longer (drying and grinding them, or whatever), but still much cheaper than store-bought meat.

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- Man I can't help but cringe when reading this and picturing myself handling and eating them. In principle, I'm all for it, but I'm kind of a somewhat squeamish eater and I think for me they would need to be integrated into something where you can't really tell it's there (protein bars, soups, whatever).
  
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- You could just raise chickens at the point.
  
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In Mexico, chapulines are a bit of an exotic delicacy from old Aztec cuisine, there's a place in my town that has them, heated and tossed on a grill with no oil, then served on a corn tortilla with black beans, fresh chopped onions and cilantro, topped with a lime squeeze and green jalapeño salsa.
They are delicious.

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Oh god that sounds disgusting! How can you eat that? I don't think I could even get to the point of swallowing, let alone chewing it up. I feel a little nauseous just thinking about it. Cilantro?!

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- You’re sounding awfully judgemental for a mutant!
  
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Wish there was a place to try this in the US.

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- There is! Everything they listed is readily available in your local market, and crickets can be purchased in bulk at pet stores.
  
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- If you're ever in Austin, Tx, there's a place called Mexta that serves them as a side. Best ones I've had outside Mexico.
  
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My nephews lived in Mexico for a few years and they still miss them.

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Uh, yeah, exactly. I'm like wat. Chapulines are delicious. At worst they kinda taste like walnuts to me. If people ate them blindfolded in a taco with other ingredients, I don't imagine too strong of a reaction.

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I don't know how much crickets cost, but legumes are pretty cheap too

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I'll have plant protein instead, thanks.

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You mean carbs.

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- https://www.nutritionix.com/food/seitan/100-g
  
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- Clearly your brain is carb deficient.
  
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I’m not going to use digital currency or a digital ID so that I’m protected from myself.

I am so fucking tired of entering a password, then a code I got by by text, so I can set up an authentication app and register my physical auth key. Why can't I just use a different strong password for each service, same as I have for the last 30 years without getting hacked.

You should be allowed to opt out of this bullshit if your password entropy is high enough.

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- The point of 2FA isn't that if your password is weak it saves you. The point is if your password gets leaked somehow (you accidentally enter it on a fake site, the site gets compromised, someone looks over your shoulder), they still can't enter without the 2FA. I hate SMS 2FA (it's not even secure) and sites that make you go through 3 steps for some reason, but the 6 digit code ones really aren't that big of a deal, you just whip out your phone and open an app.
  
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- Realistically it's not feasible to set up separate systems for separate levels of tech knowledge and expect it to not be abused.
  
  Yes, it's more of a hassle to do proper 2FA, but it helps the grannies of the world not be scammed out of their life savings, ultimately enabling greater digitalisation, which I find extremely helpful.
  
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saves hundreds

Not the hundreds of crickets.
Unlikely to be money. Raising insects is, by definition, raising animals. They need to eat too, along with shelter.

Ditch the crickets, eat the legumes. Legumes won't run away. 🫘🫛

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I think the study didn't say what you think it does. The solid filtrate diet worked according to the summary, and doesn't conflict with feed for chickens. There are vegan and vegetarian options of course, but saying they aren't economic isn't true.

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- "Economic" depends on the subsidies which exist regardless of the species of those organisms.
  
  There are many studies on these conversion ratios, I just wanted to point at one that gets into the "waste promise" too.
  
  Nothing is going to beat eating plants because plants are primary producers of calories, amino-acids, fats.
  
  What is going to happen, especially in the Western places where meat is in large demand and large supply, is that subsidies for insect farming are going to sustain the usual vertebrate farming.
  
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I'm eating billionaire bacon before I eat bugs, no thanks

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I'd eat bugs well before I tried to eat another human, billionaire or not.

But if you gave me a flyswatter to kill a random bug or a gun to kill a random CEO, and I HAD to choose one or the other... the bug would probably make it out alive.

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What part is the bacon, around the gut?

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- yes you would salt/smoke the "Eye Fillet" and slice it up to fry as bacon
  
  cw: human body labeled meat cuts
  
  https://imgur.com/human-meat-cuts-icD3o2h
  
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- On a pig it's the part over the ribs I think, I'm not sure which part of a billionaire is the tastiest but I guess you'd just have to roast the whole thing to find out
  
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- You might have a different understanding of billionaire bacon than the person you replied to.
  
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Relevant Flork of Cows comic

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For anyone wondering, this is called "Manufacturing Consent".

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Amazing

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I've never tried whole bugs, only protein bars. I feel like the texture of exoskeleton would be the worst part?

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It's just crispy when cooked properly. Do you like chips? French fries? Crispy pork? You'll be at home!

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- Fried and de-legged they taste like sunflower seed kernels, they're really inoffensive. The worst part is thinking about what they are.
  
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A friend of mine in Zambia taught me how to fry caterpillars. They are like squishy french fries. They are fine. They pair well with chibuku.

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I had dried cricket when my aunt hosted this insane trivia game as one of the “rewards” for guessing incorrectly, it actually wasn’t that bad, didn’t really taste like anything, just a standard salty burnt taste or a weird potato chip

Not something I’m gonna go out and find to eat but it wasn’t bad

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- Your first sentence says, “it actually was that bad,” but your second sentence says, “but it wasn’t that bad” so I’m going to assume you meant the latter.
  
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Worse than a quest bar??

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- I've only ever had one worse protein bar: the original powerbar. Made in Idaho back in the nineties, they were a uniformly brown (regardless of flavor), chewy, sticky, oddly grain flavored abomination. The OG version came in gold foil wrappers with black text, like it was out of a fancy MRE. They were awful.
  
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I imagine they would have the same eating experience as those mini shrimps commonly used in Chinese cooking. Meaning, great tasting but very unpleasant texture due to the shell.

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Pro-tip of every hellscape. If they make you eat bugs you make the bugs eat them

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Now that's what I call LITERALLY SNOWPIERCER

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In the game Deus Ex, Right Wing Rebellion Groups were taken over by members of the Left when it turned out their paranoid conspiracy theories were correct, which in the game were over the Government creating fake cures for the masses and keeping the real medicine for themselves. This made the politics aspect of it die down entirely, and it became less about voting out "The liberal elites", and arming yourself to keep "any elites, liberal or otherwise." from knocking at your down. Taking our Left Vs. Right Dichotomy and turning it into a Government Vs. The People one.

I only bring this up because I've read so many right-wing conspiracy theories about the poor being tricked into eating bugs to "save the planet"

And now I'm just wondering if this is going to be on the list of "shit Deus Ex was right about", which is kind of an alarmingly high list.

Because I'm fucking terrified about where the wind is blowing.

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I feel like this dude whenever I give my kid liver.

It's good for her

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Fish bait is for fish.

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Cricket flour is a thing! I like using it from time to time. The flavor is not overpowering and so far me and my family have enjoyed it. Super nutritious, clean and cheap. Got it back in México.

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If you know nothing about food and cooking then certainly you accept their agenda, but I have one magic word for you, chickpeas! Pure veggie full protein

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After finding out that the most popular snack item at some baseball team's stadium here in the US was Sour Cream & Onion flavored crickets, I've been wanting to try that.

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Words cannot express how much I hate this parent, why bother asking for good advice when you can feed your kids animal food, abusive.

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Animal food? was she feeding her child hay or something?

Salad is animal food, and human food, are you abusive if you give your kid salad?

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you're gonna lose it when you find out that most of the world eats bugs with no issues

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- Shrimp is bugs
  
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Crickets are actually a very healthy, and tasty protein source.

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- How bioavalable is cricket protein?
  
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Pretty sure this is a meme and not a real story

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- I fucking hope so
  
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- Based and bugpilled (or pill bugged)
  
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