r/Lotuseaters_com • u/MightyMemeKing1337 • Sep 24 '22
All the comments are literally people calling it a psyop and saying that zey vill not eat ze boogs
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u/Abusing-Green Sep 24 '22
I mean one of those was a clam and those dont even have legs.
But otherwise correct. I do not eat zee wet bugs or zee dry bugs
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u/Eugenides_of_Attolia Sep 25 '22
I will not eat grasshoppers. I will, however, continue to enjoy shrimp gumbo and crab legs, because all insects are arthropods, but not all arthropods are insects.
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u/Grymbaldknight Sep 25 '22
They are all gross, though.
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u/leadingthenet Sep 25 '22
There's few things more delicious than fresh seafood, though, unlike grasshoppers.
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u/GeorgiePineda Sep 24 '22
I'm glad i'm allergic to chitin, so i can tell when a roach was cooked in my meals
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u/xipheon Sep 24 '22
... I would ask who is so stupid as to think shrimp are bugs but we're talking politics here. Most people's brains don't work when their side is insulting the other side, just clapping like seals.
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u/PoleKisser Sep 24 '22
Both bugs and shrimp/prawns are arthropods, so yes. Having said that, fuck Klaus Schwab and the WEF
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u/xipheon Sep 24 '22
Isn't that no different than saying that pigs and humans are both mammals therefore we shouldn't eat pigs? Every living thing is related somewhere in evolutionary history, and you could group literally anything together with a broad enough category definition, it makes for a horrible basis for an argument.
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u/Grymbaldknight Sep 25 '22
You could extend that argument in the other direction: "If we're all related, why don't we eat humans? I mean, we eat pigs, and they share about 95% of our DNA. What's the problem?"
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u/xipheon Sep 25 '22
That's my point. It's wrong to appeal to categories as an argument. You just repeated what I said with different words.
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u/PoleKisser Sep 25 '22 edited Sep 25 '22
Well, no because I didn't say we should eat bugs or not eat shellfish. Bugs and prawns being arthropods and pigs and humans being mammals are just scientific realities, that doesn't mean we should draw any conclusions based on their biological classification. Sheep cows are also mammals and we eat them but we generally don't eat cats and dogs which are also mammals.
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u/xipheon Sep 25 '22
I'm pointing out that appealing to these categories as an argument is wrong in the first place, you're repeating what I said with different words. I started with using the argument in the opposite direction to show how bad the argument is. You needed to read to the end, although I could've made it clearer what my point was.
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u/PoleKisser Sep 25 '22
Sorry about that! I could have been clearer in my comment too, I wasn't making an argument for people to eat bugs, my argument was that people who call shrimp bugs are not stupid because it's technically true, that's all.
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u/20rakah Sep 24 '22
Despite the name, shellfish are not fish. Most shellfish are low on the food chain and eat a diet composed primarily of phytoplankton and zooplankton.[2] Many varieties of shellfish, and crustaceans in particular, are actually closely related to insects and arachnids; crustaceans make up one of the main subphyla of the phylum Arthropoda. Molluscs include cephalopods (squids, octopuses, cuttlefish) and bivalves (clams, oysters), as well as gastropods (aquatic species such as whelks and winkles; land species such as snails and slugs). From the wiki
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u/WikiSummarizerBot Sep 24 '22
Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. Although most kinds of shellfish are harvested from saltwater environments, some are found in freshwater. In addition, a few species of land crabs are eaten, for example Cardisoma guanhumi in the Caribbean. Shellfish are among the most common food allergens.
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u/Pannbenet Sep 24 '22
Come to think of posts on a Norwegian white supremacist forum, where a proposal to ban kebabs and döner in favor of native dishes was rejected because kebabs are delicious.
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u/Arya_Sayne Sep 24 '22
I know people who won't eat seafood such as prawns because "they're bugs"