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Buggy Wednesday Open Comments

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Fact check: Are insects better for you than meat?

True to form, science concludes ‘yes and no’

Well that settles that.  I’ll take my steak medium rare thank you very much.  What captured my attention was the methodology in which science has come to the non-conclusion.

To measure how healthy these bugs were compared to chicken, beef and pork, the researchers thought about it from a public health perspective. They used two different models to measure ‘healthiness’; one written by the world health food program to improve nutrition in refugee camps, one devised to regulate food advertisements aimed at children.

To be fair there are hundreds of studies of how healthy bugs are compared to meat.  This is just one.  Refugees and children?  Why does science pick on the most defenseless of  people that really have no choice in what they eat?  Why not start with rich healthy meat eaters?  Take away their meats and place them on bug diets and let’s see what the effects are on so called healthy people.

I always ask why?  Why is there all this pressure to put the world on a bug diet?  Is eating bugs

  1. Healthier
  2. Good for the planet
  3. Another way to control our behavior

and the answer is:

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62 responses to “Buggy Wednesday Open Comments”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    A $265,000 Pontoon Boat?!?! Really?! Meet the Godfrey XP 2700 Twin.
    Of course those 2, 400 HP Mercury’s will set you back about $40K each, but still. If I’m spending that kind of money the boat better top 100 MPH and that wouldn’t be easy now a days, no 30 footers in that price range, not even close but something smaller like an Allison would do it.
    It’s Wednesday, Hump day.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Somebody please call Harper and check on her.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      I’ve been wondering about her, who has her number, I don’t.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        Tedtam and Shannon have her number.

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      We texted about this last night. One of us will be calling her today.

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    New arrival.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I read and signed their petition. You might be a signer if you are so inclined. They have 397,460 signatories so far.

    #MeToo_Unless_UR_A_Jew

    On October 20th, following the Hamas terror attack on Israel, the ‘UN Women’ organization published a detailed report under the name “UN Women Rapid Assessment and Humanitarian Response in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” followed by an official UN Women statement on October 27th under the name “In-focus: The conflict in Gaza”.

    The organization repeatedly failed to address the current situation as it is and is actively and knowingly working to create a false and insidious narrative.

    and,

    #MeToo_Unless_Ur_A_Jew is a grassroots global campaign founded and lead by Danielle Ofek in the aftermath of the October 7th terror attack by Hamas in Israel where hundreds of women were brutally murdered, many mutilated and raped, and 84 kidnapped and still held hostage, including girls.

    ​

    When it comes to being a “global champion for gender equality” and raising awareness of human rights violations against women, it is very clear that for UN Women, and the UN as a whole, Jews simply do not count. 

     

    It is a case of #MeToo_Unless_UR_A_Jew.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam

    We had two Thursday posts again so I moved mine to Monday, May 6th.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I just read a national news story about the fight at UCLA last night. The reporter only mentions anti-israel protesters and pro-Israel factions. The truth is over 200 Jews showed up in flash mob function and started tearing down the tent city. A call went out among Jewish social media users.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    SO Texpat, when you’re’ in Austin are you going to check out the bats? Also If I were in Texas, I’d have to run down to Corpus and visit Copana Bay Press. I was there during the COVID and they were getting settled into their new offices. I bought a Republic of Texas Map and watched them print it on their huge printer. 😉

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat probably saw the Congress Avenue Bridge bats in the 60’s when he lived there. Once you’ve seen ‘em, you’ve seen ‘em. 🙂

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I actually lived in Austin in 1970-1971. I lived in the Lockhart/San Marcos area later in the 1970s. I’ve spent a whole lot of time in Austin and watched grow from 220,000 to its present 983,126.

  9. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m not eating the damned bugs! Klaus Schwab and the rest of his ilk should make haste to meet their maker, satan, and leave the rest of us alone.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dang it just hit me, it’s May 1 man time is flying.

  11. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yes, ‘‘tis May 1.
    Fix your analog watches now.

  12. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You people are obviously a bunch bourgeois capitalist oppressors, not even recognizing that today is the day set aside for the proletariat to rise up, unite, shed their chains, and take control of the means of production!

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Roundup for today’s C&C:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! April is now consigned to the history books, and we’re one month closer to getting past the election and hopefully returning to sanity. Here’s everything you need to know this morning, in the roundup: China cancels and investigates top covid doc; jab news trends toward truth; massive new jab study raises profound questions about cumulative risk; student protest news roundup; and Minnesota democrats are not above the law.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C. points out the obvious issue with the timing of the protests (which Trump has pointed is being professionally funded, given the immediate arrival of duplicated signs and brand new supplies):

    Corporate media are experts at ignoring a story. So this intense coverage suggested they really like this protest story for some reason. Behold, the new Summer of Protest! And it’s just getting started. Recall that, last election season, the summer protests really only got going by August. Remember the dramatic videos of the fiery, nighttime Kenosha, Wisconsin protest where Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself? Good times. That was August 25, 2020 — almost September.

  15. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    It saddens me to announce that my yearly SPEEDO REVIEW is / will be postponed for some time to come. In their exuberance to please Texpat other front pagers/admins have filled all available posting slots till Texpat returns. We apologize for the disappointment, but we are all big boys and girls, we will get by.
    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JP8ud4ntmTc/hqdefault.jpg?v=635c534b

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I will happily move my weekend spot to make room for your speedo review, if you so wish.

    2. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      You still have next Tuesday and Wednesday available, SQK.

    3. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I’m heartbroken.

    4. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      I’m devastated.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Flight is late so I’m taste testing the Bloody Mary here in the airport bar. I paid $18. When I was in Portland in 2022 I had the best vodka tonic ever in a very cool looking airport bar for $7.

  17. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Left unsaid so far is the answer to the question, “Do bugs taste like chicken?”

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The last time I was in the Paramount Theater in Austin was with Katfish to see the band Foreigner.
    47 Years Ago.

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Woman on all-bug diet claims crickets taste like ‘fried chicken’

    “Mealworms taste like chicken, ants are salty, crickets taste like nuts if they’re roasted but if you fry them they taste like fried chicken and smell like popcorn,” the former zoologist describes. “Bamboo worms taste salty”

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      I’ll take their word for it.

  20. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    @ the 20 second mark Mick asks the crowd if squawka Bruddah is there?

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Good find Brother Phil. I watched the whole video and I could not get the vision of Biden stumbling around out of my mind. Dayam those guys look as old as they are. Sing like it too.

      1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
        Dr phil Good-E=1984

        Yea their hay day is over but I still give ‘em an A for getting out there and performing. if I can still move like Mick at 80 I’ll be a happy man.

        Ron Wood lost half a lung due to smoking but I think his licks are still ok.

        but it’s definitely not the 1973 Mick Taylor on lead guitar Stones. My personal favorite lineup.

        1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
          Dr phil Good-E=1984

          Yeah not yea.

    2. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Dayam I watched a couple more vids from that guy. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN LIVE FROM LONDON LET’S GIVE A BIG TEXAS SHOUTOUT TO THE ROLLING GERIATRIC STONES.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m an hour early at IAH.
    In my leisurely drive over here (on 99/45/Beltway 8), I have re-confirmed that too many drivers in this town are way too stupid to be driving as fast as they do.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    You ever make Oxtail soup? Me neither but I decided to give it a try using Bambi Neck bones, lots a meat on the neck. I put it in the Crock Pot about 6 AM and I just now took it out and separated the meat from the bones so now I’ll add the vegetables and cook slow. BTW; Lil’ Dawg loves to gnaw the bones.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Oxtail soup out of the neck?
      You got the wrong end of the animal, Sir.
      Just sayin’.

    2. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      The shanks work good too.

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat:
    40,000 feet
    430 kts
    over Alexandria, Loozianna

  24. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    He’s crossed the Sabine into Texas airspace. GTT

  25. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    How come there isn’t a bar in the Baggage Claim area?

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      can you imagine the nightmare of mistakenly-claimed luggage if those waiting for said luggage were being “lubricated” whilst waiting???

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    When his Ground Speed drops to 130 kts I figure that’s good news. Or really bad news. 🙂

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Change in altitude speed + change in forward speed = danger zone

      1. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        Five Bloody Mary’s he’s probably worked hisself intro the cockpit flying the plane.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just got back home after doctor visit and errands today. Hubby dropped off the meds that he picked up yesterday (and failed to bring in for me).

    The doctor gave me the biggest prescription pill bottle I’ve ever seen for my pain prescription. I guess she figgers it’ll take a while to get over this latest spinal faux pax.

  28. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Wife and i both just got our eyes examined for new glasses. Of course they said we both have cadillacs, so, whip out the ole Medicare card and let’s get her done. Thank you for your support.

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh goody Conroe is looking at the probability of 4.5 inches of rain.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      4.5 inches of rain is far superior to 4.5 months without.
      I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre frontal lobotomy.

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, at least with Squawk’s Speedo collection, he’ll be ready for the rain.

  31. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    It has been snowing here for two days. Finally stopped. Not a lot of accumulation but some, 3 inches or so.
    Hello everyone.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Dayaam! I don’t know how you do it. I had my shirt off today and almost got too much sun. High in the mid 80’s gonna’ hit 90 by tomorrow and I love it.I can’t do cold weather.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Family reunification commenced.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Very good. At our age we need to do this more often, you just never know.

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      Try not to get into too much trouble.

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Oh I forgot be sure to go by the local Sheriff’s office and post bond ahead of time. That’s what we always did. 😀

  33. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Welcome home Texpat.

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Supper is served, Mock Oxtail Soup and dang if it didn’t turn out fine, also with the cornbread it made for a hearty meal.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    His daughter arrived 90 minutes later.
    At a different terminal, of course.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      Wow that’s great did he know she was coming? When I visited my son in California my daughter flew in form Midland and surprised me.

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Got caught up in the attempt to save that poor dog thrown away like rubbish. What a remarkable love and caring made such a difference in that poor creature’s life. Hope that dear thing lived long enough to be adopted.

  37. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Family reunification commenced.

    did you break out your best bottle of Boone’s Farm that’s been aging in your favorite socks drawer for the last couple of years?

    the Jersey boss man deserves nothing but the best.:)

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      😀

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