Utah kids told to eat bugs to save the earth and get class credit

[TBoneTX 45,248]

Utah kids told to eat bugs to save the earth and get class credit

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/utah_kids_told_to_eat_bugs_to_save_the_earth_and_get_class_credit.html

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We have all been eating  an unknown amount of bugs when we eat chocolate. 

 

However it's just crazy asking kids to eat bugs. 

[TBoneTX 45,248]

Chocolate-covered crickets, grasshoppers, locusts... better start getting used to them.

[Lemonslice 4,831]

Serious question, what is the difference between eating a cricket and a shrimp? A veal steak and a dog steak?  

As long as the ingredients of what you are eating are disclosed, why is it a problem? 

 

(for reference, I am an omnivore - I eat some weird things [to Americans], but I am still picky)

[TBoneTX 45,248]

Just now, Lemonslice said:

I am an omnivore

Right, and next you'll be telling us that "I see what I eat" is the same as "I eat what I see," LS ma'am.  

2 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

A veal steak and a dog steak?

Eat the former and stop global warming by eliminating a greenhouse gas-emitting critter from the planet, is my first guess.

4 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

a dog steak

Two foreign immigrants have just arrived in the United States by boat.  As they discuss their expectations of American culture, one says to the other, "I hear that the people of this country actually eat dogs."

 

"Odd," his companion replies, "but if we shall live in America, we should do as the Americans do."

 

Nodding emphatically, the first immigrant points to a hot-dog vendor, and they both walk toward the cart.  "Two dogs, please," he says.

 

The vendor, pleased to oblige, wraps both hot dogs in foil and hands them over the counter.  Excited, the companions hurry to a bench and begin to unwrap their "dogs."

 

One of them opens the foil and begins to blush.  Staring at it for a moment, he turns to his friend and whispers cautiously, "What part did you get?"

[Mike E 11,739]

8 hours ago, Lemonslice said:

Serious question, what is the difference between eating a cricket and a shrimp?

I can remove the indigestible outer chitin layer of a shrimp before eating it. And as shrimp mostly swim in saltwater the chitin is less likely to carry toxic microbes.

 

Never heard of sushi restaurants serving up raw crickets. Of course if you google for it, you will find that sure enough there are chefs serving insect sushi. But being a thing doesn't make it a main stream thing.
 

It is a puzzle to me why I am expected to embrace food I consider to be trash, while billions  are not expected to embrace my food preferences: pork, beef, crustaceans, shell fish, booze. I am really getting tired of forced accommodation. 

 

Insects = poison. Not happening:. WEF, UN, EU, Ds, public schools, and whomever else are shoving this agenda can all go pound sand while I grill a steak on my gas grill. 

[yuna628 9,671]

 

 

10 hours ago, Lemonslice said:

Serious question, what is the difference between eating a cricket and a shrimp? A veal steak and a dog steak?  

As long as the ingredients of what you are eating are disclosed, why is it a problem? 

 

(for reference, I am an omnivore - I eat some weird things [to Americans], but I am still picky)

Cicadas are a local delicacy around these parts, beloved by humans and pets. They are extremely similar to shrimp, in both taste and genetics to the point it is unadvisable to eat them if you are allergic to seafood. People eat frogs, snails, crabs and lots of bottom feeding creatures. Crab 'mustard' which many people still consume is essentially 'waste product'. I don't really see the issue, if people willingly want to eat something and it won't hurt them. Our ancestors ate them, sometimes out of necessity.

[Lemonslice 4,831]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43786055

 

I have no particular interest in eating bugs, but I've tried some years ago at the Insect museum. Wasn't terrible, not great - didn't get any to bring home.

 

"It is a puzzle to me why I am expected to embrace food I consider to be trash, while billions  are not expected to embrace my food preferences: pork, beef, crustaceans, shell fish, booze. I am really getting tired of forced accommodation. "

 

Who's forcing you to embrace it?  Some people skip the meat, but the supermarkets around here still have a full wall of refrigerated meat.  I just haven't seen a restriction in choice. 

[TBoneTX 45,248]

2 hours ago, yuna628 said:

crabs

"Waiter!  Do you serve crabs here?"

"Why, yes, sir; we serve anybody."

[Mike E 11,739]

58 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

Who's forcing you to embrace it?

 

4 hours ago, Mike E said:

WEF, UN, EU, Ds, public schools, and whomever else are shoving this agenda

When you imply there is no difference between eating shrimp and bugs, I infer if I am for example in the last row of long haul and all that’s left is grass salad, that’s going to ok. 
 

Well it should not be ok. If a different flight originating from or arriving at a Middle East or north African airport even served pork, there would be an uproar. Ditto a  flight involving an Indian airport that served beef.

 

But me, I have to up with being offered bugs because WEF et al says so.

[yuna628 9,671]

From a cultural standpoint - countries that restrict pork or beef eating do so because of their national religious beliefs. But historically the US does not have any restrictions in that regard. Early colonists and Native Americans alike ate insects. We likely eat insects every day without knowing it (last year seemed bad for finding insects on produce imo). Our tradition for eating Cicadas in these parts likely came from that same time. We realized they are literally land shrimp - and could be baked, fried, or grilled - and were plentiful too. They required far less work than farming, fishing, or hunting to gather. Settlers would trade for fruitcake that consisted of insects and in times of famine locust swarms, people were encouraged to eat them. The biggest insect based substance we all eat is honey - produced via the vomit of bees.

 

Many countries around the world thrive on bug eating. I'm pretty sure there are plenty survivalist gurus, boy scouts, and military that know a thing or two about eating insects as well.

 

Of course eating insects is viewed in a negative manner because of phobias about it. Quite frankly I find the little guys too adorable.

 

No one is forcing anyone to eat insects. It was part of a single school lesson the same as telling a child they need to go dissect a frog for a class project. They were given the option to try eating it for extra credit if they wanted to. The single student that objected was offered an alternative. Most kids, found it fun, gross, and funny. The kids were not allowed to argue a counterpoint in the writing assignment portion (which is problematic), but that is no different than what you'd find at private religious schools or even homeschools on a variety of subjects. Ultimately if the mother was unhappy about the subject material she has the option to change schools or homeschool, instead of complaining to the news and I assume still leaving her kid in the same school system. It sounds like it was worked out anyway.

Edited March 17, 2023 by yuna628

[Dashinka 24,479]

I ate some sort of roasted insect on my first trip to Korea that was served sort of like a snack.  I guess it is an acquired taste as I never asked for it again.  I do like fresh sushi style octopus though.  I also know I have eaten and swallowed several bugs while on my motorcycle.

 

 

[Mike E 11,739]

28 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

From a cultural standpoint - countries that restrict pork or beef eating do so because of their national religious beliefs. But historically the US does not have any restrictions in that regard. Early colonists and Native Americans alike ate insects.

Yeah well bug eating isn't part of my culture. 
 

28 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

No one is forcing anyone to eat insects

Yet.

 

Reminds of the claims:

 

* the naked body scanner is optional

* no one will forced to vaccinate

* no kid will be forced to under go gender re-assignment surgery

[TBoneTX 45,248]

One of my favorite bumper-stickers:

 

I LOVE ANIMALS

(They're delicious)

[Ontarkie 14,215]

They are going after the kids because they are the ones that can be easily manipulated. They have done this in more then a few classes. Making chips out of crickets and other junk food. Telling kids its healthier 🙄

 

Why do you think they built that huge cricket plant in Ontario. It sure isn't for the pet industry. 

 

And yes when you are sitting there telling kids if you eat this you will get extra credit. That just shows the amount of manipulation they are going to use on them.