It's just a matter of time now before NBC brings back "Fear Factor" the next time the network does a "Green is Universal" pitch.
Time.com this morning has a video feature on "How to Cook Bugs." The tease on the front page insists that "[a] great way to save the planet may be to stop eating beef and munch on crickets instead."
Insisted the video narrator:
If you can get beyond the ick factor, insects like grasshoppers can actually be a healthy, low-fat source of protein and vitamins. And when you realize how much land, food, and water it takes to produce cattle, then maybe raising crickets for food isn't such a bad deal for the earth.
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wait....
June 2, 2008 - 11:26 ET by mnconv92uuuhhh, shouldn't we eat the bugs raw?? Doesn't cooking it use electricity and therefore fossil fuels? Or maybe this guy hooked up his fryer to a windmill.
Liberals eating bugs??
June 2, 2008 - 11:31 ET by jefflebowskiKnock yourself out! Do these morons sit around pining about the good old days when humans lived in caves?
As for me, I think I'll enjoy a big, juicy steak this evening!
Jeff Lebowski
www.angrywhitedude.c...
Well...
June 2, 2008 - 22:23 ET by ChesterBogusThis is exactly the kind of xenophobia that is difficult to pin down.
You seem to be suggesting that only cavemen eat bugs. Hm. I'm sure that the vast number of contemporary cultures that eat bugs would like to have a word with you. One of them, I should point out, probably built the computer you us, or helped develop the technology that powers it - the Japanese love bugs, and there is a cricket season there. They are quite a long way from being cavemen.
This is the kind of thing that very subtly reveals a person's prejudices. You would be confused if I did call you racist, because you see no connection between bugs and cave men and xenophobia. But there is a connection, however subtle, and it reveals vast ignorance about the way the world works.
Bugs are very, very good sources of food. Many people eat them. In fact, according to a very good friend that served with a recon unit, Marines are made to eat bugs for survival training in the jungles of Indonesia where he fought terrorists...wait. Wait a second.
You implied that only cavemen eat bugs, but our troops eat bugs, too. You said that people suggesting we eat bugs for survival are morons, but American soldiers eat bugs for survival, too! While fighting terrorists!
Why did you insult our troops?!
Why do you support terrorism?!
And, yes, that's how you people sound. All the time.
Please stop insulting the Japanese, the Australian Aborigines and scores of other people that eat bugs as a part of their traditional culture.
Chester... You have got
June 2, 2008 - 22:33 ET by Clear thinkerChester...
You have got to be kidding. You got all that from Jeff's very short post.
Jeff made none of those connections, you did. What he did make was a comment about how libs want us to go back to living the pure and simple life of a caveman. You know, no technology, no advancements, just living out in good old bare ass nature without that very evil invention of Conservatives..... CO2.
Please do us a favor and skip procreation. Thanks.
"Abstain from McCain"
Ct... Me thinks Chester
June 2, 2008 - 22:37 ET by bigtimerCt...
Me thinks Chester is posting for a padded room somewhere...
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
bt... You mean 'from'
June 2, 2008 - 22:41 ET by Clear thinkerbt...
You mean 'from' right?
"Abstain from McCain"
PETA
June 2, 2008 - 11:35 ET by dboHow long will it be before grasshoppers are put on the endangered species list?
People Eating Tasty
June 2, 2008 - 11:42 ET by BurgherPeople Eating Tasty Arachnids
mmm mmmm goood
Newsweek is nuckin futs
Eat Bugs
June 2, 2008 - 12:55 ET by merlin61Yes, Burgher, they're nucking futs!!! New
slogan, Let them eat Bugs!!!! NBC needs to
continue going down the tubes. First Spam,
now bugs. Yep, despair, despair, despair.
But hope,hope, hope if Dems get in. The change
in media will be so gleeful and optimistic about
the future, even though it will all be lies.
but i don't like spam
June 2, 2008 - 13:14 ET by BurgherI know, It's all to Orwellian:
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and obama; egg and spam; egg, obama and spam; egg bugs sausage, spam and obama; spam bacon sausage bugs and spam; spam eggs spam spam bugs obama and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam bugs and spam; spam spam spam.........
What a diet the dems have
The alarmist argument
June 2, 2008 - 11:45 ET by FoolicanWell, you know, if we cut back carbon emissions back when the time was right, we wouldn't have to be worrying about this now!
C02 is plant food.
June 2, 2008 - 11:49 ET by BurgherC02 is plant food.
They already eat them.
June 2, 2008 - 11:49 ET by JohnJDunbarI am sure that most of the limerals(limosine liberals) have more than their share of bugs everyday. Can you imagine what the kitchen in the typical NYC restaurant looks like.
"Eating Bugs 'Great Way to
June 2, 2008 - 11:50 ET by Chris Norman"Eating Bugs 'Great Way to Save the Planet'"
That's the same thing my waiter told me when I complained about the bug in my salad...
Time Warner, parent of Time
June 2, 2008 - 12:04 ET by jdhawkTime Warner, parent of Time Magazine, has been in the toilet as a stock since the "dot bomb" days of 2000/2001.
They recently shut down any further development on the browser, Netscape after spending $10 billion dollars on it originally.
Time magazine loses subscription readers quarter after quarter, year after year (second to last paragraph of this article proves my point: http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=69249). Yet, they continue to serve up liberal tripe - always at least a week old . . .
They ought to do a cover story on themselves and their parent company. Here is the tag line, "How to Screw Up a Multi-billion Dollar Franchise." What a joke.
Prime Rib Roast
June 2, 2008 - 13:09 ET by DEVILDOCMOMFixing a prime rib roast for dinner and proud of it. I know I am constantly saying it here, but where do these people come from?
Bugs may have the "ick factor"
June 2, 2008 - 13:17 ET by sarcasmoBut for me at least, reptiles have totally lost any icky-ness. They're delicious every time I try them, and usually impossible to distinguish from good chicken. But for all the unscientific & hysterical enviroweenies, we would all be able to buy farm-raised green turtle (which is especially yummy, you don't know what you're missing!!) with 0 negative impact on the wild green turtle population. Iguana eggs & flesh are also surprisingly good.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Let them eat bugs
June 2, 2008 - 13:54 ET by greenfairieComplaining about food prices? Gas too high? Eat the bugs, you gun-toting, God-loving, planet-polluting peasants!
Insanity at it's
June 2, 2008 - 14:15 ET by bigtimerInsanity at it's finest!
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
Please for the love of Gawd get it right!
June 3, 2008 - 03:18 ET by JWFWe need to start eating people to save the earth! Soylent Green is People!
LOL
June 3, 2008 - 09:42 ET by GameGridSoylent Green goes great with some fried centipedes and roasted ants too!
I wonder how many of these morons that are seriously suggesting this will actually practice what they preach. Of course let's imagine for a moment that everyone is a mindless zombie to science and does everything they are told, so everyone on the planet begins to eat bugs as a way to save it. Several years down the road, we suddenly begin to hear "unforeseen consequences" to the practice as the media reports of dwindling bug populations causing an inbalance in the cycle of life and we should stop now because now things are out of whack and man (specifically American's) are pure evil! [/sarcasm]