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OTTAWA – The Conservative Party of Canada has officially announced that in addition to walkable cities, vaccines, and transgender children, they are also deeply afraid of eating bugs.

“We WON’T Eat Bugs,” the CPC said in an online petition it posted this week. “No one is asking us to, but we’re so scared someone might, and it could be Justin Trudeau. And that makes us furious and so very frightened of this version of Justin Trudeau that we made up who is making us eat bugs.”

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[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago

Many political scientists believe the reason rightwing politicians become hysterical at the idea of eating insects is due to the fact that in school, all of them were either the kind of children who made other children eat bugs, or the kind of children who would’ve made other children eat bugs if they’d possessed the upper body strength to do so.

“Like all bullies, conservatives are deeply afraid of pretty much everything,” said Dr. Abigail Petrie, the head of the Political Science Department at McGill University. “They mask their terror with anger, but beneath their performative rage you’ll find a person who is terrified of anything and everything. Sadly, rather than simply coping with their anxiety in a healthy way, conservatives lash out, like a dog attacking a vacuum cleaner while pissing itself in fear.”

Nailed it.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

This isn't even satire, it's just the truth.

[-] kryptonidas 2 points 1 month ago

So eloquently put.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 55 points 1 month ago

Oh shit new moral panic just dropped!

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I was expecting it to be the clip from Paul Joseph Watson 'I will not eat the bugs' that made the rounds a few years ago.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago
[-] kyle@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

What's it called when you eat the onion but turns out it actually is real?

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

This fucking timeline

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago
[-] kyle@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Normally yes, but the OP actually is an onion article.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The way I see it, it'd be similar to how ostrich eggs are sold in Canada and a lot of other places worldwide as a kind of novelty food, but most people just eat chicken eggs anyways.

From this article

Ashour said 10 per cent of the product is sold for human consumption. The rest is sold to the pet food industry.

"It's quite remarkable how normal insect consumption can be in some of these countries," Ashour said.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 1 month ago

I tried eating bugs, it's not bad. Aside from lobster and shrimp I mean, grasshoppers aren't that bad.

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

Silkworm pupae (Beondegi in Korean) are pretty good too.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would try it, looks interesting. The canned stuff though... Ugh

The boiled or steamed snack food is served in paper cups with toothpick skewers. Its aroma has been described as "nutty, shrimp-like, and a bit like canned corn" and the canned-type smells very much "like tire rubber", while the texture is firm and chewy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beondegi

Edit: are those just the 'de-silked' pupae from the silk industry?

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago

The pupa stage is a motionless stage. In this stage, people kill the pupa by plunging the cocoon into boiling water and unwind the silk thread.

https://byjus.com/chemistry/silkworm/

So yes, it looks like this is the leftover insect after the silk is removed

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 month ago

Even better, thanks!

[-] Soleos@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Thank God, the market price of lobster and crab is too damn high. Even prawn is getting up there.

[-] voluble@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

POV: You’re the world’s largest producer of lentils, by far

Conservatives: “They’re eating the bugs”

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago

More for me!

[-] fnrir@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It already happened in Poland. Source: search "Poland eating bugs"

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Hell I won't eat bugs and ain't no conservative tagging me for it

[-] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

dont they know where those red colors dyed M&Ms come from?

[-] Hamartia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Looks like a yummy flourentine

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Every election, the PC run a wet sock as their leader and gets beaten by Trudeau. But this new guy is the most worrisome, dude is unhinged, go look at how he talks to the media to get an idea of how he would talk down to constituents and Canadians.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago

What happened to freedom and letting people excercise their liberty as they please.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I mean, nobody is forced to eat crickets lol

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah exctly. But if i wanna eat crickets thats my godamn right.

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