VeganPizza69 Ⓥ to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish • 4 months ago‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protestwww.theage.com.auexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up175cross-posted to: skeptic@lemmy.world
arrow-up175external-link‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protestwww.theage.com.auVeganPizza69 Ⓥ to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square23fedilinkcross-posted to: skeptic@lemmy.world
minus-squareDrusaslinkfedilink4•4 months agoThat’s not how it works, but if it will encourage people to be less squeamish about eating bugs… Sure.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigodlinkfedilink2•4 months 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-squareDrusaslinkfedilink4•4 months 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-Demigodlinkfedilink1•4 months agoYes, but if some arthropods are edible then it makes sense that others are edible.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetlinkfedilinkEnglish2•4 months agoSo they are going to make us eat bugs!
Shrimps is bugs reference?
Shrimp are arthropods and so are 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!