Why are celebrities promoting us to eat bugs and why is there a heavy push for us to all go electric?

[Anonymous]

Like what are the global elites end game wanting us to all eat bugs and use only electric stoves.

[purplepoppy]

Not a new thing. The Victorians promoted using bugs as a way of feeding poor people. The idea keeps getting recycled but it never catches on. In a world where obesity is a bigger problem than starvation no one is going to dump a steak for a plate of worms

[exitseven]

you are right about that.

[NotTacocaT6969]

The resources on earth are running out.


They’d rather act like eating bugs is normal than admit how fucked we are and risk a civil war.

[Soteris]

There aren't. Granted, perhaps there should be.

People actually do eat bugs around the world and its not like we dont eat similarly "weird" things like shrimp. Insects are an extremely nutritious form of food and unlike cows it costs basically nothing to farm them and its super quick to do so. Its not an exaggeration to say that its childs play to solve world hunger by switching to insects and veggies due to just how productive they both are.

Of course, no one is stopping you from going even one step further and going vegetarian but hey, bugs are creepy so lets become outraged over that this week said every right wing idiot ever.

As for going electric? That is just capitalism. Electric cars blows fossil fuel cars out of the water so there is not much point in even developing new fossil fuel cars anymore since there is no future market for them.

[Shamalien]

You’re speaking nonsense. Absolute nonsense. The push for electric cannot he written off as “just capitalism” considering nobody would be buying these things if not for the tax incentives (they would be even more prohibitively expensive without them)

And bugs are not the best for humans…we cannot effectively process chitin. There is a top down push to switch from meat to bugs and it has nothing to do with consumer choice…

Like do you actually think electric is better than fossil fuel? All I can say is you clearly don’t live in Canada 😂 also we don’t have the grid capacity in most cities for everyone to drive electric. The wiring cannot even sustain that, telephone poles would literally be going up in flames

[Soteris]

@Shamalien I dont care what you think of tax incentives or whatever. Car manufacturers aren't even interested in designing new internal combustion cars because with or without government subsidies, the industry simply does not have a future. The governments did not force the car manufacturers to stop, they did it simply because of their own market analysis AKA it is purely profit driven.

As for insects, no its not the most efficient. That would be plant based food. They are the 2nd most efficient. Also it has nothing to do with digesting chitin, just like meat consumption has nothing to do with digesting bones.

As for if electric cars are better than fossil fuels? Oh god yes. They are vastly superior. Regarding your pathetic electrical grid, that is just the sign of your bad government. If it can't even sustain PREDICTABLE growth in demand then there are a lot of people that simply should be fired, or perhaps even criminally charged for sabotaging their nations infrastructure and national interests.

[Shamalien]

YOU ARE MISINFORMED.

[Soteris]

@Shamalien No.

[Cassie88]

God, what absolute bullshit. Electric cars "blow fossil fuel cars out of the water"? Not in terms of cost, performance and reliability. Not to mention safety! Why do Tesla cars have such an unfortunate tendency to KILL their drivers by catching fire, or accelerating out of control?

[Soteris]

@Cassie88 Eh? Right. Because internal combustion cars are so notoriously cheap, reliable and NEVER EVER EEEEVER kills their drivers.

As for why Teslas keep having a poor record? They are crappily built cars. They lack acceptable QA and their factories are not run very well because they, like most American car companies, are just trying to squeeze as much money with as little effort and care possible. Most of what you pay for with a Tesla is the brand, like buying an expensive bag or whatever that is actually shit quality just because they have better marketing.

But yeah, strictly speaking not much can actually go all that wrong with an electric car. They are super simple compared to internal combustion engines with barely any moving parts or pieces that experiences wear and degradation. Switch out the battery every once in a while and it will run for decades upon decades.

[Cassie88]

"Because internal combustion cars are so notoriously cheap, reliable and NEVER EVER EEEEVER kills their drivers."
I never said that, that's a strawman argument. Compared to cars that run on petrol, yes, electric cars are unsafe, expensive and unreliable. They take too long to charge, and are as weak as piss when they crash into anything at all.

[Soteris]

@Cassie88 Compared to cars that run on petrol, electric cars are by far safer. In fact, I think the difference is so large that electric cars is safer by orders of magnitude. They are also more reliable and can be made much cheaper. They are also more powerful and while yes, takes time to charge, this is not a problem for ordinary use and only comes into play during long drives.

You are drastically misinformed on the actual accident and injury statistics.

[normalice]

They aren't. Right wing misinformation says they are, but that's just because they know no one is stupid enough to vote republican based on merit..

[exitseven]

Most of these people did a lot of illegal drugs.

[Anonymous]

Because it goes down better than cannibalism and electric is about giving jobs to those unemployed by AI and will be used to reintroduce slavery via human hamster wheels for the green revolution

[Anonymous]

Liberalism 101: Do as they say and obey.