I can't believe what I just read "Honeybees are delicious." arrrrrgh, don't eat honey bees. Eat crickets, etc, insects are very nutritious actually, if pesticide and herbicide free. They provide N-acetylglucosamine which otherwise is hard to get without gnawing on oyster/clam shells. https://www.medicinenet.com/n-acetyl_glucosamine/sup…
I can't believe what I just read "Honeybees are delicious." arrrrrgh, don't eat honey bees. Eat crickets, etc, insects are very nutritious actually, if pesticide and herbicide free. They provide N-acetylglucosamine which otherwise is hard to get without gnawing on oyster/clam shells. https://www.medicinenet.com/n-acetyl_glucosamine/supplements-vitamins.htm Missionaries made African people stop feeding toddlers insects and the toddlers got kwashiokor - edematous malnutrition and a puffy swollen gut. Low meat product diets would be more at risk because bone broth would have a different form of glucosamine. -> point, while WEF goals are bad, insects as food are not bad for humans, actually kind of healthy.
My beef, sorry for the pun, is the coercive and processed nature of insect eating n America. It is one thing to eat insects and grubs like aboriginal people do. It is another for the sort of people who feed us high fructose corn syrup to feed us highly processed insects.
Yep, I've had a few folks "call me out" for demonizing cultures that eat insects. I can't see how it's not obvious that I'm talking about dietary coercion.
Some people are addicted to calling people out, not because their argument makes any sense or because they have spent any time thinking it through, it is just the rush of feeling self-righteous.
For the record, Jennifer, my response about getting called out was in agreement with William. I didn't even see your comment until now because Substack is still not sending me notifications when you comment.
I just saw the conversation. My reply was in general, this topic is being used as a wedge or shiny bauble in the info division war iny opinion. My point really was just a dietitian fact check, oh btw, insect eating in itself, without pesticides or glyphosate (big if) is kind of healthy and good for us. The good kind of NAG, #puntentional.
I can't believe what I just read "Honeybees are delicious." arrrrrgh, don't eat honey bees. Eat crickets, etc, insects are very nutritious actually, if pesticide and herbicide free. They provide N-acetylglucosamine which otherwise is hard to get without gnawing on oyster/clam shells. https://www.medicinenet.com/n-acetyl_glucosamine/supplements-vitamins.htm Missionaries made African people stop feeding toddlers insects and the toddlers got kwashiokor - edematous malnutrition and a puffy swollen gut. Low meat product diets would be more at risk because bone broth would have a different form of glucosamine. -> point, while WEF goals are bad, insects as food are not bad for humans, actually kind of healthy.
My beef, sorry for the pun, is the coercive and processed nature of insect eating n America. It is one thing to eat insects and grubs like aboriginal people do. It is another for the sort of people who feed us high fructose corn syrup to feed us highly processed insects.
Yep, I've had a few folks "call me out" for demonizing cultures that eat insects. I can't see how it's not obvious that I'm talking about dietary coercion.
Some people are addicted to calling people out, not because their argument makes any sense or because they have spent any time thinking it through, it is just the rush of feeling self-righteous.
That dopamine hit is so alluring...
For the record, Jennifer, my response about getting called out was in agreement with William. I didn't even see your comment until now because Substack is still not sending me notifications when you comment.
I just saw the conversation. My reply was in general, this topic is being used as a wedge or shiny bauble in the info division war iny opinion. My point really was just a dietitian fact check, oh btw, insect eating in itself, without pesticides or glyphosate (big if) is kind of healthy and good for us. The good kind of NAG, #puntentional.
Substack also is intermittent in allowing Likes.