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by hinkley 813 days ago
We should be feeding pigs and chickens insects. They’re omnivores. It’s weird that we are trying to feed them entirely or mostly grain.
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It's not weird; grain is cheap. Totally understandable.
They'd die, just like people. Mammals in general can't digest chitin. There aren't any human populations that consume a significant amount of insect protien. It's just a trick to demoralize and humiliate the peasantry.

Bugs literally aren't even fit to be fed to pigs. But I'd enjoy force feeding somebody like you more than you could handle!

Are you a pig farmer? Because this has been studied many times and you’d think they’d notice.

This is one situation where I can say, “how can a billion Chinese people be wrong?” without sarcasm. Roasted grasshopper is sold as a snack. Whole grasshopper. People aren’t dying from it.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adc9165

https://www.wired.com/story/insects-pigs-poultry/ - EU approved insects for pigs and poultry in 2022 and I’m pretty sure there are farmers in Europe.

Ugh, disgusting. No more European cured pork products for me!
Pretty sure pigs eat grubs the find when they root in the dirt.
Nah, they reject insect food. Have you ever been physically forced to eat bugs? We can change that!
You are a very strange person.