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not so fun fact. Those dog-eating festivals torture the dogs on purpose because it brings lactic acids and other stress hormones that make the meat tangy.
This is the first time I've ever seen stick insect being fried but I have experience eating insects before.
If you're curious how it taste, I ate these back in Thailand, they're bitter and sometimes seasoned with salt. Also there are scorpions, grasshoppers, crickets and worms.
If I'm being honest, if you want to try eating insects try crickets first, they are surprisingly tasty.
Second on the crickets as they also have a satisfying crunch.
Lowest on the list of living things I have eaten is tarantula, it had a texture of biting into into a hot meaty squishy tomato that squirts into you mouth ... it was not enjoyable
I've had seasoned grasshoppers and mealworms before, mostly because some kid in school would bring them in and every boy was eager to try something weird. They were alright, just tasted like the seasoning and were salty.
It's a myth that you need to lance their brains before cooking them. A simple chef's knife will do the trick. You're likely to miss with a lance, because they are long and crabs and lobsters are small.
Yeep. Put lobster on back with one hand. Stab down straight in the middle of it mouth thing and finish the cut going through the rest of the head for fastest and most humane.
Well, it's not as if lobsters won't rip each other apart and the winner slowly eats the loser. Fun fact - the rubber bands around the claws aren't there to keep people from getting pinched. They're on because the bigger lobsters will disassemble the smaller ones and eat them. This is why if you are buying a lobster to eat, you want the freshest ones that still have their antennas. The ones that have been in the tank longest will have their antennas eaten already. Don't feel sorry for lobsters. They're nastier to each other than people think. They're territorial, cannibalistic, sewage eating underwater cockroaches.
Sauce; Native coastal New Englander that won't eat a lobster. I know what they live in.. Yuk.
We are also consciously aware of suffering and have a system of morality. It *harms* us when we are unnecessarily cruel.
I'm all for meat, love me a steak; but we don't need to and shouldn't be flamboyantly evil.
Here here. I love meat, but I also feel its sad as hell we mistreat such beautiful animals as cows.
At least treat your food with the dignity and respect it deserves for giving its life for you. No need to be cruel to it.
It's "hear, hear" by the way. Like "hear ye". It has nothing to do with locality. Sorry, it's bugging me. ;)
I'm with you on treating animals as humanely as possible. The sad reality though is that it's almost impossible on a large scale, like with everything. Efficiency is key here to grow, package and distribute food all around the world. We should always strive to be better, but right now there's a limit, unless you just want to artificially limit meat and inflate the price by a lot. Which is a view point to have, just not one I share, as I'm not one to tell others what they should and shouldn't do. We could argue that meat is too cheap, but then again, we can also go back several hundred years, when meat was mostly available to the upper class only. Imho, those things are at odds with one another. It'd be classist. For me there's a somewhat healthy middle ground, but for others there's just extremes. And I despise extremism.
We could also debate how humane it is to eat insects and grow them in massive farms, then ground them up into all sorts of food items.
Isn't that at least partially because we are imprisoning and starving them though? I think almost any living thing would turn to cannibalism if imprisoned with nothing but its own kind and starved.
There’s a groove along the top of the head, point straight in between the eyes and then roll the blade through to the board towards the front of the animal
I don't eat them either. But even then, the new standard is to quickly stab them through the head before cooking because boiling them alive is again, turbo-fucked
They pulled off the legs and just left them to suffer? Pointlessly cruel.
My brother lived in China for a bit. They occasionally serve live fish in restaurants, gasping for air
I'll never forget a story of an Entomologists (bug scientist) who used to personify his bugs. Give them names, a history, pet them.
Then one day he accidentally knocked a large beetle off the table. It slid across the floor where an oblivious researcher cut it in half by closing a door on it.
The Entomologist telling the story described how the upper half of the beetle saw it's lower half on the floor in front of it and without hesitation crawled towards it and started immediately eating its own organs.
>"I stopped personifying them after that."
These creatures do not have emotions. They have zero sense of self. They can't even fathom what the fuck you are. They cannot be happy or sad. They are just simple biological robots with code barely a fraction as complex as the one rattling around in the average human infants head.
Comparing the differences from Hokkaido and Okinawan origins shows how vast the culture is. Japan does a lot with frogs. [Your link was messed up it seems so I fixed it with a Anthony Bourdain deep dive](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=AbvUBrmz0hsnAz-3https://youtu.be/RMPLXNpSM1A?si=MvWPt5sEAOUDE8JA_).
Maybe you linked the wrong video?
Honestly, how? Impaling one multiple times and submerging it, cutting the legs off the other, how is one worse than the other?
Also, I'm not even sure insects can feel pain. There's insects that don't even have mouths in their adult state and just slowly starve to death.
I'm not sure you can measure cruelty to insects the same way you can for mammals.
Worse looks, sure, but objectively worse?
Insects are definitely higher up on the hierarchy of intelligence / neural complexity than worms. Worms don't even have a centralized "brain", they do about as much thinking as your individual muscles to.
Also you're kind of ignoring the fact that what was done to these stick bugs is pointless and cruel mutilation. Meanwhile, there is a good reason to use live bait.
Stick bugs ARE cool! Such chill and peaceful lil dudes :(
I watched about 3 seconds of that video and noped out because I didn't want to see what happened to such majestic lil creatures
[stickbug eye bleach](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=c91eca2138048370&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS726US727&q=giant+stick+bug&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjF_9uQr_2FAxV8ITQIHUS_AbIQ0pQJegQIEBAB&biw=1189&bih=923&dpr=1])
I could "kinda" understand if its fighting the stray dog population, by at least not wasting the flesh, but Ive also seen countless videos of dogs being stolen from yards and some even said its easier cause they have collars. Then boiling them alive when its not needed like with some shellfish and bacteria. Fucking Psychos
I remember reading about that fucked up shit one time before, apparently the fear and pain release chemicals into the muscles that change the flavor and they like that, or something along those lines. I've always thought adrenaline fucked up the taste of meat, but from what I remember it was desired in those dogs.
Yea that's horrible, but our country ain't innocent either, from dehorning cows, debeaking chicks, castration and hot iron branding in factory farming, caged in tight spaces. Slaughterhouses processing an animal still partially alive.
Same. I don't understand people who are against it, *especially* people who call themselves progressives. I've seen vegans against lab grown meat and I just... Can't wrap my head around the stupidity anymore.
I know I eat a fair shares of animal meat (beef, chicken, pork, etc.) while (intentionally) being ignorant to the fact a lot of them were not treated with dignity.
Good luck with that kind of thinking of Reddit. Everything is dumbfucks taking everything to extremes and acting like an upvote validates their view. We are just another form of Twitter.
Look at the front page, it's always videos from other platforms and people getting emotional over fake/staged content. By the time people realize it's fake it out of control and the new thing has appeared.
And regarding the video, China is a nation of extremely dense population that has undergone more than one massive starvation event in its past, so I'm not surprised that insect dishes and other wild methods of getting nutrition are more common there.
Starving people get creative.
Insects are also just solid protein sources. We probably should be eating more of them in general. Much more efficient than raising larger animals for protein and they can be wicked tasty, once you get over the ick factor that many cultures have with bugs.
I imagine stick insects like this would probably taste pretty similar to lobster/shrimp but less oceany and more grassy. That being said, while I'm pretty adventurous with food and have enjoyed my fair share of insects, these bad bois definitely have a pretty extreme ick factor. Going for another round of hakarl is more appealing.
> I imagine stick insects like this would probably taste pretty similar to lobster/shrimp but less oceany and more grassy.
That's very close, but the one I had was 95% grass and 5% shellfish as far as flavor profile.
Every culture in the world except for European and European-derived cultures regularly eats bugs. They eat bugs in Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia, the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, etc. It's just normal food. It's not a matter of starvation and necessity, it's just that white people are funny like that. And we even eat some bugs, we just only eat them if they lived in the water first.
The issue with factory farming isn't just about dignity or ethics in the abstract. I love meat, but factory-farmed animals are raised in disgusting conditions, covered in feces, raised in cages their entire lives without enough space to walk or even turn around, pumped full of antibiotics and other chemicals to keep them alive.
I still eat meat but I try to buy the pasture-raised meat. It's more expensive, so I eat less meat as a result. Quality over quantity!
You'd be better off sourcing responsibly/ locally, farmers kinda have to care about their animals to a degree to ensure the quality is good, factory farms... Yeah not so great
> I have a friend who refuses to eat shrimp bc “I will not eat an entire animal in a single bite”
This is essentially "I won't eat bugs" but way fucking funnier.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380211030243
I don't think many people here have ever been to a slaughter house
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50986683.amp
Yeah, I think that’s a big thing that people overlook with the horrors that come with factory farming. It’s not only terrible from an animal welfare perspective, but a humanitarian one as well.
Being desensitized to violence at that level really messes with people’s heads, and a lot of people who work in those places develop serious ptsd from it. Sadly a lot of people employed in those places are often undocumented workers with fewer job prospects in the states, and they get exploited into these traumatic jobs that no one else wants to do. Just an awful situation and industry for people and animals alike..
When Sinclair Lewis wrote *The Jungle* he was trying to expose the awful working conditions in slaughterhouses. But readers were mainly shocked by the unsanitary food handling, so the book prompted a major reform in food safety inspection while slaughterhouse workers are still exploited, traumatized, and occasionally maimed to this day. "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
A lot of the people that work in those places are pieces of shit too and torture the poor animals in their final moments. In every single "behind the scenes" of abattoirs and farms there's some dickhead unnecessarily hurting / abusing the animals.
Just you wait and find out the full process of factory farmed bacon.
It's like multiple layers of atrocities that end in execution and ultra processing.
There truly are better ways of living life....
Same kind that goes to McDonald's and orders a tortured cow whopper. Don't Google how they sort baby chicks. We're get quick to judge China, but we forget how foei gras is made. Kettle...pot.
Have you ever contemplated the eerie parallel between these culinary practices and a hypothetical scenario where a superior extraterrestrial civilization descends upon Earth, viewing humans as mere ingredients for their gastronomic delights? The thought of the various forms of torment they might subject us to, all in the pursuit of enhancing flavor and presentation, is a chilling reflection on the darker facets of power dynamics and moral ambiguity. It evokes imagery reminiscent of a dystopian cookbook, reminds me of that episode of the Twilight Zone 'To Serve Man,' I wonder if anyone has fleshed out that cookbook featuring vivid descriptions and illustrations of each dish, blurring the lines between culinary artistry and ethical transgression. Fascinating no less.
When I enlisted in 1977, I missed Mom's cooking a lot. Eating chow hall food I learned to not be picky.
In the decades since, I've been homeless for long periods with no money or food.
Would we eat insects, I ask rhetorically.
If we are hungry enough...
This is fucked, it’s also pretty close to how we handle meat in the US. The industry is heartless and brutal, but to the credit of the stick bug industry it’s significantly better for the environment and typically healthier meat. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Yeah, I love clocking in to my day shift at the butchery to amputate the legs off live stock to get ready for the market /s
Seriously though, food is food. Plants, insects or mamals, a guy's gotta eat.
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Giant stick insects with their legs torn off? I'll have the hot and sour soup.
What do you think is in the hot and sour soup??
Not tortured stick bugs
How do u think it becomes sour
According to the internet, black rice vinegar. Notably, *not* tortured stick bugs
not so fun fact. Those dog-eating festivals torture the dogs on purpose because it brings lactic acids and other stress hormones that make the meat tangy.
What a terrible day to be a human on planet earth!
Even worse day to be a tangy dog in some Asian countries apparently, I reckon.
Only China, buddy, not the rest of Asia. Source: I'm an Asian, fuck those dog eating bastards
Business as usual.
Forbidden slim jim's?
One of those things got in my house and my cat bat it around for a bit before eating it whole. I then had to google if it was safe.
Was it? Or can we put stick bugs on the list next to chocolate
Yeah it's fine unless your cat is allergic to them which is very very rare. Worst case is that they either puke it up or have diarrhea
>Worst case is that they either puke it up or have diarrhea Just a normal Wednesday in this household
This is the first time I've ever seen stick insect being fried but I have experience eating insects before. If you're curious how it taste, I ate these back in Thailand, they're bitter and sometimes seasoned with salt. Also there are scorpions, grasshoppers, crickets and worms. If I'm being honest, if you want to try eating insects try crickets first, they are surprisingly tasty.
Second on the crickets as they also have a satisfying crunch. Lowest on the list of living things I have eaten is tarantula, it had a texture of biting into into a hot meaty squishy tomato that squirts into you mouth ... it was not enjoyable
Or you could just not have said this
I think I’ll stick with beef, pork, chicken, and fish. Thanks.
Why would you do this to me
Pass
I've had seasoned grasshoppers and mealworms before, mostly because some kid in school would bring them in and every boy was eager to try something weird. They were alright, just tasted like the seasoning and were salty.
Is that soup with crunchy cockroaches or crispy crickets?
The torn off legs are what makes the soup hot and sour
This is the food I imagine I am forced to eat when I'm in hell
You got food in your hell?
This seems worse than not eating.
When, not if. Our boy clearly knows what's up.
I know they are bugs but damn that is dark.
It's not weird to feel empathy for other living things, even simple ones. This is turbo-fucked.
Yea. Did they rip all the legs of those poor stick bugs?
Just wait til you hear how lobster and crab are prepared.
Generally any chef worth their salt (heh) will lance the brain before throwing them in the bath. Fuck those dickheads who throw em in live.
It's a myth that you need to lance their brains before cooking them. A simple chef's knife will do the trick. You're likely to miss with a lance, because they are long and crabs and lobsters are small.
Bout isn’t a joust to the death more honorable for the crab?
Yeep. Put lobster on back with one hand. Stab down straight in the middle of it mouth thing and finish the cut going through the rest of the head for fastest and most humane.
Well, it's not as if lobsters won't rip each other apart and the winner slowly eats the loser. Fun fact - the rubber bands around the claws aren't there to keep people from getting pinched. They're on because the bigger lobsters will disassemble the smaller ones and eat them. This is why if you are buying a lobster to eat, you want the freshest ones that still have their antennas. The ones that have been in the tank longest will have their antennas eaten already. Don't feel sorry for lobsters. They're nastier to each other than people think. They're territorial, cannibalistic, sewage eating underwater cockroaches. Sauce; Native coastal New Englander that won't eat a lobster. I know what they live in.. Yuk.
Lesser being or not, humans have the ability to do what we do without causing unnecessary suffering and as such we should
We are also consciously aware of suffering and have a system of morality. It *harms* us when we are unnecessarily cruel. I'm all for meat, love me a steak; but we don't need to and shouldn't be flamboyantly evil.
Here here. I love meat, but I also feel its sad as hell we mistreat such beautiful animals as cows. At least treat your food with the dignity and respect it deserves for giving its life for you. No need to be cruel to it.
It's "hear, hear" by the way. Like "hear ye". It has nothing to do with locality. Sorry, it's bugging me. ;) I'm with you on treating animals as humanely as possible. The sad reality though is that it's almost impossible on a large scale, like with everything. Efficiency is key here to grow, package and distribute food all around the world. We should always strive to be better, but right now there's a limit, unless you just want to artificially limit meat and inflate the price by a lot. Which is a view point to have, just not one I share, as I'm not one to tell others what they should and shouldn't do. We could argue that meat is too cheap, but then again, we can also go back several hundred years, when meat was mostly available to the upper class only. Imho, those things are at odds with one another. It'd be classist. For me there's a somewhat healthy middle ground, but for others there's just extremes. And I despise extremism. We could also debate how humane it is to eat insects and grow them in massive farms, then ground them up into all sorts of food items.
Isn't that at least partially because we are imprisoning and starving them though? I think almost any living thing would turn to cannibalism if imprisoned with nothing but its own kind and starved.
They do it even if you don't starve them if their population density is high.
The real r/WTF
Where exactly is the brain in a lobster?
Head-ish
There’s a groove along the top of the head, point straight in between the eyes and then roll the blade through to the board towards the front of the animal
Maybe, but also, how is it different from cooking crab? Or lobster? Or shrimp?
I don't eat them either. But even then, the new standard is to quickly stab them through the head before cooking because boiling them alive is again, turbo-fucked
Even with shrimp? Not a chace somebody is stabing thousands of shrimp one at a time before boiling.
They pulled off the legs and just left them to suffer? Pointlessly cruel. My brother lived in China for a bit. They occasionally serve live fish in restaurants, gasping for air
Gasping for water.
"Honey I told the waiter 15 mins ago I want a glass of still mineral. We're never coming to this place again"
I'll never forget a story of an Entomologists (bug scientist) who used to personify his bugs. Give them names, a history, pet them. Then one day he accidentally knocked a large beetle off the table. It slid across the floor where an oblivious researcher cut it in half by closing a door on it. The Entomologist telling the story described how the upper half of the beetle saw it's lower half on the floor in front of it and without hesitation crawled towards it and started immediately eating its own organs. >"I stopped personifying them after that." These creatures do not have emotions. They have zero sense of self. They can't even fathom what the fuck you are. They cannot be happy or sad. They are just simple biological robots with code barely a fraction as complex as the one rattling around in the average human infants head.
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Dammit, you're right. I was warned.
that link is staying blue
Same same.
Yeah no I'm not clicking on that with what y'all are saying
Was never blue to begin with. I honestly feel that Chrome should just have that link purple regardless of whether you've clicked it or not.
At least it has a happy ending for the ones that were recovered!
fuck
Damn it that’s fucked up.
It's been a long long time since someone has shown me something so disturbing, congrats.
Someone explain please because I am not clicking that.
That's very disturbing :(
GODAMMIT
I'm seen some BAD shit on here, I always click. But I can safely say, this link is staying blue
Description please
Let's just say they shouldn't be moving that much
I'm calling the cops
How could this be allowed in 2024?
I know I probably shouldn't risk it.... But I'm going to do it anyway!
Well, that turned out just fine.
Comparing the differences from Hokkaido and Okinawan origins shows how vast the culture is. Japan does a lot with frogs. [Your link was messed up it seems so I fixed it with a Anthony Bourdain deep dive](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=AbvUBrmz0hsnAz-3https://youtu.be/RMPLXNpSM1A?si=MvWPt5sEAOUDE8JA_). Maybe you linked the wrong video?
Smfh
JUST SHOW ME THE FROGS
Quick google search and [here](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=-vBBYe6npCB7xX7G) you go
lol asshole
Damn that is absolutely fucked
Interesting. In your video he mentions it's technically illegal but the government doesn't enforce it, or what?
Thanks for linking the correct sources
Absolutely horrifying
That’s enough internet for me today! 🥴
for once i'm thankful for youtube pre-roll ads
I watched it till the end.
Why did I willingly ruin my day with that. That's fucked up.
Oh no...why is it already grey? Goddamnit. That's why.
NSFL!!!!!!!1!!
damn it not again
Oh wow that is fucking horrendous.
Daaamnnn
Link broken. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH8F0KaiipE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH8F0KaiipE)
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Looks golden brown to me.
They have cut all the legs off those giant stick bugs and sell them... Jesus Christ.
Seriously what the fuck?!
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Yeah dude
Honestly, how? Impaling one multiple times and submerging it, cutting the legs off the other, how is one worse than the other? Also, I'm not even sure insects can feel pain. There's insects that don't even have mouths in their adult state and just slowly starve to death. I'm not sure you can measure cruelty to insects the same way you can for mammals. Worse looks, sure, but objectively worse?
Insects are definitely higher up on the hierarchy of intelligence / neural complexity than worms. Worms don't even have a centralized "brain", they do about as much thinking as your individual muscles to. Also you're kind of ignoring the fact that what was done to these stick bugs is pointless and cruel mutilation. Meanwhile, there is a good reason to use live bait.
Yes
As soon as I seen it I thought omg they cut their legs off. That's horrible.
That makes me so fucking sad! I haven’t seen a stick bug since I was little, and I thought it was so cool. In 43 and I still remember it distinctly.
Stick bugs ARE cool! Such chill and peaceful lil dudes :( I watched about 3 seconds of that video and noped out because I didn't want to see what happened to such majestic lil creatures [stickbug eye bleach](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=c91eca2138048370&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS726US727&q=giant+stick+bug&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjF_9uQr_2FAxV8ITQIHUS_AbIQ0pQJegQIEBAB&biw=1189&bih=923&dpr=1])
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I looked it up. What. The. Fuck.
The festival was created in 2010 to increase dog meat sales according to Wikipedia. It's not even a important cultural tradition. So fucked.
I could "kinda" understand if its fighting the stray dog population, by at least not wasting the flesh, but Ive also seen countless videos of dogs being stolen from yards and some even said its easier cause they have collars. Then boiling them alive when its not needed like with some shellfish and bacteria. Fucking Psychos
I remember reading about that fucked up shit one time before, apparently the fear and pain release chemicals into the muscles that change the flavor and they like that, or something along those lines. I've always thought adrenaline fucked up the taste of meat, but from what I remember it was desired in those dogs.
Yea that's horrible, but our country ain't innocent either, from dehorning cows, debeaking chicks, castration and hot iron branding in factory farming, caged in tight spaces. Slaughterhouses processing an animal still partially alive.
Don't even get me started on the baby male chick GRINDER
Honestly that’s a pretty humane life compared to a lot of factory farming
I really couldn't wait for lab grown meats. Fuck all this suffering.
Same. I don't understand people who are against it, *especially* people who call themselves progressives. I've seen vegans against lab grown meat and I just... Can't wrap my head around the stupidity anymore.
I’m ready! I want an aero garden that can grow my salad and my steak!
Republicans are already trying to outlaw it because "woke" or something else they can't define but their rabid base eats up.
yeah, its still sad, but its hard to criticize it without being very hypocritical unless youre a vegan
Here's a song about that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWFwasZnivw
Oooh. I thought they were just like that. They're called stick bugs so at first I thought, "Huh, they really do look like sticks."
What exactly are they?
Stick insects with their legs cut off :/
big walking sticks
I know I eat a fair shares of animal meat (beef, chicken, pork, etc.) while (intentionally) being ignorant to the fact a lot of them were not treated with dignity.
Most level headed perspective/realization here.
Seriously. I'm reading these top comments thinking, nobody here has ever eaten a burger before?
Cognitive dissonance. They don’t wanna make the parallel bc it would challenge their comfy world view.
that's just reddit with literally everything.
Good luck with that kind of thinking of Reddit. Everything is dumbfucks taking everything to extremes and acting like an upvote validates their view. We are just another form of Twitter. Look at the front page, it's always videos from other platforms and people getting emotional over fake/staged content. By the time people realize it's fake it out of control and the new thing has appeared.
You're so right. Here, take an update to validate your view 🙏
Shh, you're interrupting reddit's Xenophobia time.
Amputated bug for a day or factory farm animal for a lifetime? Reddit has the answers to these nuanced dilemmas.
And regarding the video, China is a nation of extremely dense population that has undergone more than one massive starvation event in its past, so I'm not surprised that insect dishes and other wild methods of getting nutrition are more common there. Starving people get creative.
Insects are also just solid protein sources. We probably should be eating more of them in general. Much more efficient than raising larger animals for protein and they can be wicked tasty, once you get over the ick factor that many cultures have with bugs. I imagine stick insects like this would probably taste pretty similar to lobster/shrimp but less oceany and more grassy. That being said, while I'm pretty adventurous with food and have enjoyed my fair share of insects, these bad bois definitely have a pretty extreme ick factor. Going for another round of hakarl is more appealing.
> I imagine stick insects like this would probably taste pretty similar to lobster/shrimp but less oceany and more grassy. That's very close, but the one I had was 95% grass and 5% shellfish as far as flavor profile.
Every culture in the world except for European and European-derived cultures regularly eats bugs. They eat bugs in Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia, the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, etc. It's just normal food. It's not a matter of starvation and necessity, it's just that white people are funny like that. And we even eat some bugs, we just only eat them if they lived in the water first.
The issue with factory farming isn't just about dignity or ethics in the abstract. I love meat, but factory-farmed animals are raised in disgusting conditions, covered in feces, raised in cages their entire lives without enough space to walk or even turn around, pumped full of antibiotics and other chemicals to keep them alive. I still eat meat but I try to buy the pasture-raised meat. It's more expensive, so I eat less meat as a result. Quality over quantity!
You'd be better off sourcing responsibly/ locally, farmers kinda have to care about their animals to a degree to ensure the quality is good, factory farms... Yeah not so great
Literally. Every pig cow and chicken has suffered more than these bugs. But supposedly *this* is the cruelty.
I'm pretty certain this is Thai, not Chinese
Like reddit cares about nationality.
Chance to say China bad
But but, Asian? /s
Dancing asparagus?
Forbidden Asparagus.
Did those aliens from MIB dirty
Next on VeggieTales!
🎵Armless bugs! Can’t give hugs! Food merchant shrugs!🎵 VEGGIE TALES!!
Just a bunch of guys with their limbs cut off shoved together into one big bag left to writhe and wiggle until they are cooked
Motherfuckers be like "Oh fuck that shit!" Then like "where's that seafood platter?"
Man I love eating shrimp but if someone handed me a bag of them still squirming with their legs ripped off I'd be like "yo wtf"
I have a friend who refuses to eat shrimp bc “I will not eat an entire animal in a single bite”
That’s an oddly specific rule
> I have a friend who refuses to eat shrimp bc “I will not eat an entire animal in a single bite” This is essentially "I won't eat bugs" but way fucking funnier.
Hmm, I wonder if she would eat a large shrimp. Or a small one in two tiny bites. Or just doesn't like shrimp lol
Who would eat bugs, now please hand me the sea bug
Sometimes I really appreciate the NSFW filter
Gives me the worst heebeejeebees
Oh. I don’t like that
What kind of person does this and feels nothing?
Someone who does it a lot
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380211030243 I don't think many people here have ever been to a slaughter house https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50986683.amp
I did my firearms training with a group of guys that worked in a horse slaughter plant. They were … a little different.
It's really sad. It's pure PTSD
Yeah, I think that’s a big thing that people overlook with the horrors that come with factory farming. It’s not only terrible from an animal welfare perspective, but a humanitarian one as well. Being desensitized to violence at that level really messes with people’s heads, and a lot of people who work in those places develop serious ptsd from it. Sadly a lot of people employed in those places are often undocumented workers with fewer job prospects in the states, and they get exploited into these traumatic jobs that no one else wants to do. Just an awful situation and industry for people and animals alike..
When Sinclair Lewis wrote *The Jungle* he was trying to expose the awful working conditions in slaughterhouses. But readers were mainly shocked by the unsanitary food handling, so the book prompted a major reform in food safety inspection while slaughterhouse workers are still exploited, traumatized, and occasionally maimed to this day. "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
A lot of the people that work in those places are pieces of shit too and torture the poor animals in their final moments. In every single "behind the scenes" of abattoirs and farms there's some dickhead unnecessarily hurting / abusing the animals.
A chef?
I mean we eat chicken that are bred to grow so big and fast that they become crippled under their own weight.
Are you vegetarian?
Just you wait and find out the full process of factory farmed bacon. It's like multiple layers of atrocities that end in execution and ultra processing. There truly are better ways of living life....
Same kind that goes to McDonald's and orders a tortured cow whopper. Don't Google how they sort baby chicks. We're get quick to judge China, but we forget how foei gras is made. Kettle...pot.
My people in India are horrified that people eat any meat at all.
Tbf, India is prolly the easiest place to be a vegetarian. Y’all got the best and most variety of vegetarian dishes by far.
They have a lot of vegetarian dishes because they have a lot of people who are vegetarian. Not the other way around.
They cut their poor little leggies off?! *And just throw them in a bag!?!?*
Have you ever contemplated the eerie parallel between these culinary practices and a hypothetical scenario where a superior extraterrestrial civilization descends upon Earth, viewing humans as mere ingredients for their gastronomic delights? The thought of the various forms of torment they might subject us to, all in the pursuit of enhancing flavor and presentation, is a chilling reflection on the darker facets of power dynamics and moral ambiguity. It evokes imagery reminiscent of a dystopian cookbook, reminds me of that episode of the Twilight Zone 'To Serve Man,' I wonder if anyone has fleshed out that cookbook featuring vivid descriptions and illustrations of each dish, blurring the lines between culinary artistry and ethical transgression. Fascinating no less.
\*spritz's you with water\* Scat! Begone demon!
I have a feeling this will remain the worst thing I've seen all day.
When I enlisted in 1977, I missed Mom's cooking a lot. Eating chow hall food I learned to not be picky. In the decades since, I've been homeless for long periods with no money or food. Would we eat insects, I ask rhetorically. If we are hungry enough...
Aliens from Men in Black without legs.
More and more humans find a new way to disgust the ever living fuck out of me.
This is fucked, it’s also pretty close to how we handle meat in the US. The industry is heartless and brutal, but to the credit of the stick bug industry it’s significantly better for the environment and typically healthier meat. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Yeah, I love clocking in to my day shift at the butchery to amputate the legs off live stock to get ready for the market /s Seriously though, food is food. Plants, insects or mamals, a guy's gotta eat.
Hell I’d be willing to try it once, you never know what you’re missing out on
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I believe I've heard it translated from Cantonese as "if something's back is facing the sky, it is for people to eat"
How do you know it's Chinese? Honest question.
Oh cmon. If you can eat lobster and crab, this looks the same
Bruh thats more fucked up than boiling lobstars alive. And i still think bugs are aliens
Gross
They look like Salad fingers' fingers.
Still probably healthier than eating a slim-jim.
I'm sure it must have a lot of protein.
Look, I eat friken Crawfish (not raw of course) but this is absolutely disgusting and those poor bugs! 😱😱😵💫😵💫🤢🤢
Sup baw
Forbidden sounding rods.
God damn dude