VeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protestwww.theage.com.auexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up171arrow-down1external-link‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protestwww.theage.com.auVeganPizza69 Ⓥ@lemmy.world to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareDrusas@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThat’s not how it works, but if it will encourage people to be less squeamish about eating bugs… Sure.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoHow is that not how it works? Insects are arthropods. So are crustaceans, including shrimp. Is it because they live on land that makes people squeamish?
minus-squareDrusas@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoInsects are arthropods but it doesn’t mean all arthropods are insects. Much like how squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoYes, but if some arthropods are edible then it makes sense that others are edible.
minus-squareAnticorp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoSo they are going to make us eat bugs!
That’s not how it works, but if it will encourage people to be less squeamish about eating bugs… Sure.
How is that not how it works? Insects are arthropods. So are crustaceans, including shrimp. Is it because they live on land that makes people squeamish?
Insects are arthropods but it doesn’t mean all arthropods are insects. Much like how squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
Yes, but if some arthropods are edible then it makes sense that others are edible.
So they are going to make us eat bugs!