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There are just so many of them. It seems like they would make for a good food source in tough times.

 

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They do eat bugs, dumbass.

 

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Subject: Why don't starving people across the world eat bugs?
Well why don't they eat bugs until they aren't starving anymore? Duh.

 

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Maybe because it's easier to come by meager sustenance elsewhere. Even hunting rats or stealing chickens would probably be better than digging for earthworms.

 

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Now I'm hungry.

 

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they probably haven't studied racoons long enough to know how to find the best earthworms- like me.

 

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Like an over boisterous patriot's fan, they should probably eat a lot of crow too. whistling



 

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A colony of larvae and a few insect traps could yield a day's meal couldn't it? They could even dry preserve them for bad seasons or try to market and export the surplus.

 

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Until people figure out how to eat poop, there will always be hunger.

 

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Subject: Why don't starving people across the world eat bugs?
BritonGuy posted:
A colony of larvae and a few insect traps could yield a day's meal couldn't it? They could even dry preserve them for bad seasons or try to market and export the surplus.


Go find a colony of larvae right now. For a lot of the worlds starving people, they live in an environment where a rat is more common than a colony of insects. Or perhaps they get food but its not enough or there's diseases and they're malnourished any way.

 

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BritonGuy posted:
A colony of larvae and a few insect traps could yield a day's meal couldn't it? They could even dry preserve them for bad seasons or try to market and export the surplus.


There is a reason why were the 1%.

 

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Subject: Why don't starving people across the world eat bugs?
ikkoikki posted:
BritonGuy posted:
A colony of larvae and a few insect traps could yield a day's meal couldn't it? They could even dry preserve them for bad seasons or try to market and export the surplus.


Go find a colony of larvae right now. For a lot of the worlds starving people, they live in an environment where a rat is more common than a colony of insects. Or perhaps they get food but its not enough or there's diseases and they're malnourished any way.


I could definitely find one nearby if I wanted to.

They just need to learn how to catch the insects in their environment. Instead of exporting rice to them we should be exporting shovels and nets. In fact there's a thought... why don't mosquito nets double as mosquito traps? People could sleep safe and wake up to a mosquito omelet for breakfast.

 

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Kordirn posted:
BritonGuy posted:
A colony of larvae and a few insect traps could yield a day's meal couldn't it? They could even dry preserve them for bad seasons or try to market and export the surplus.


There is a reason why were the 1%.


Even when the US started, people had to grow and preserve their food for harsh seasons, and they usually had a good idea of how much they needed to save. Maybe starving people should save some of their bugs for when there's famine.

 

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Subject: Why don't starving people across the world eat bugs?
if you can catch enough mosquitos in one night to make breakfast then there's probably lots of lovely diseases they are bringing to you as well. you may eat like the king of bats and then die of malaria.

 

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Nothing's stopping them from supplementing the mosquito omelet with a worm milkshake.

 

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staving people is no joke, show some class



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bwhahahahahahaha

 

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catching worms is a delicate art. not everyone can do it.

 

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FineYoungCannibals posted:
staving people is no joke, show some class



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bwhahahahahahaha

 

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I suggested a while back why don't we process and package all the dogs and cats we put to sleep in this country and send them the meat. We kill a lot of animals every year.

 

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I suggested a while back why don't we process and package all the dogs and cats we put to sleep in this country and send them the meat. We kill a lot of animals every year.


Doesn't doing stuff usually cost money? There's got to be an economic incentive.

 

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^ idiots

 

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MoFoEskimo posted:
FineYoungCannibals posted:
staving people is no joke, show some class



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bwhahahahahahaha

 

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Also you don't want to be consuming any Pentobarb Sodium... Least I'd avoid it despite the fact that it wouldn't do much in the concentrations you'd find in the dog/cat meat.

 

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If the starving people learn to catch bugs they can have food and pets.

 

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How bout them GIANTS!!!!

 

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How bout them GIANTS!!!!


Are they tastier than bugs? They got to be just LOADED on protein!

 

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How bout them GIANTS!!!!


Are they tastier than bugs? They got to be just LOADED on protein!


well Giant Bugs are clearly the way to go

 

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Brandun posted:
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How bout them GIANTS!!!!


Are they tastier than bugs? They got to be just LOADED on protein!


Well Giant Bugs are clearly the way to go.



Lets see some giant bug recipes then! Or some Giants recipes depending on your palate!

 

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Giants don't exist and neither do any events involving them.

 

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