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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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[–] Hamartia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Looks like a yummy flourentine

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 59 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago

So eloquently put.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

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

Conservatives: “They’re eating the bugs”

[–] ByteOnBikes 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh shit new moral panic just dropped!

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days 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 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] kyle@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago

This fucking timeline

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] kyle@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day 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.

[–] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

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

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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 3 days ago (1 children)

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 3 days ago

Even better, thanks!

[–] fnrir@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 3 days ago

More for me!

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, nobody is forced to eat crickets lol

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

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