I've found it difficult to sympathize with the 'they're going to make us eat bugs!!' crowd. Like, just don't eat meat. I realize it sucks. But if your move, when it's no longer economically viable to rip a chicken's beak off with burning hot pincers and throw it in a sunless cage for its entire life, is to eat bugs to try to re-capture that feeling, like what the fuck?
Do these people think they are the ones deserving of sympathy in this situation?
Also, it's a protein, who cares? If it tastes good, it meets your nutrition needs, and doesn't make you sick, what difference does it make? Like :im-vegan: and agree with your point, but I always found it bizarre that that main fear mongering thing here is that they'll make you eat gross stuff. Like if it's presented in a way that's gross, don't eat it, but it's a palpable product, what do you care if your processed slop came from a chicken or a worm?
What if I told you that this is exactly what "foie gras" translates to?
When I was introduced to it, I was told that they feed the geese a diet heavy in corn and other grains, which they're not accustomed to eating, and their liver goes into overdrive to process it all and grows really big.
I was young and didn't take a stance against it but I was very weirded out by that description, way more than the actual taste or texture.
What if I told you that this is exactly what “foie gras” translates to?
I know, I'm just saying that if you go by the way people rave about it, you'd think it tasted really good or something. Instead it just tastes like fat, and not even the good kind of animal fat, but that weirdly offal-tasting liver fat
also the idea of something's liver being beige is just disgusting as well. Imagine wanting to eat that
I've found it difficult to sympathize with the 'they're going to make us eat bugs!!' crowd. Like, just don't eat meat. I realize it sucks. But if your move, when it's no longer economically viable to rip a chicken's beak off with burning hot pincers and throw it in a sunless cage for its entire life, is to eat bugs to try to re-capture that feeling, like what the fuck?
Do these people think they are the ones deserving of sympathy in this situation?
Also, it's a protein, who cares? If it tastes good, it meets your nutrition needs, and doesn't make you sick, what difference does it make? Like :im-vegan: and agree with your point, but I always found it bizarre that that main fear mongering thing here is that they'll make you eat gross stuff. Like if it's presented in a way that's gross, don't eat it, but it's a palpable product, what do you care if your processed slop came from a chicken or a worm?
Omnis think goose liver is a delicacy, rather eat a bug than fwa gwa
faux grass is the most overrated thing ever. shit just tastes like fatty liver. like they should just eat a fucking egg yolk if they want that so bad
I had it once at a super boogie restaurant and was so... underwhelmed. Like, why? It just tastes, mushy? Bitter?
:vegan-liberation:
What if I told you that this is exactly what "foie gras" translates to?
When I was introduced to it, I was told that they feed the geese a diet heavy in corn and other grains, which they're not accustomed to eating, and their liver goes into overdrive to process it all and grows really big.
I was young and didn't take a stance against it but I was very weirded out by that description, way more than the actual taste or texture.
I know, I'm just saying that if you go by the way people rave about it, you'd think it tasted really good or something. Instead it just tastes like fat, and not even the good kind of animal fat, but that weirdly offal-tasting liver fat
also the idea of something's liver being beige is just disgusting as well. Imagine wanting to eat that
Why yes, it is awful-tasting in fact.