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I'm not really talking about eating them out of desperation but rather just as an additive in food, however I see where your coming from and it's a pretty reasonable response.
Yeah sorry I got a bit emotional, I‘m just grossed out by bugs a lot, including the popular sea ones. Though I guess if they are in a powder I wouldn‘t mind as an additive.
It‘s mostly for me the issue that a lot of right wingers are also using these sort of articles to push the "the left wants to force us to eat bugs" narrative, which is untrue (there is no force at all), but I wouldn‘t actually put it past some state‘s politicians to go like "let them eat bugs" as a response to rising food prices either.
In which case I would like to respond by aggressively planting vegetables.
I hope you don't feel triggered by my question, I am genuinely curious, I swear. No judgment. Here my question: since bugs are part of this planet's life like all other life forms, don't you think that there is something wrong being so triggered from bugs?
I mean, it's normal to respect or to feel a kind of repulsion to some kind of insects, it is natural instinct that saved us from death, but being grossed by bugs in general sounds a bit too much to me.
I had a kind of phobia but when I realized that we are all part of the life on this planet, insects included, than something changed in me. I do not love insects, but I definitely do not feel reputation or fear anymore. I feel respect for some kind of insects (big spyders for example) and I try to build biodiversity in my garden for some others.
Sorry, I don't want to bother you or judge you, is it totally ok the way you are. I just kind of saw myself some years ago in our emotional answer.
Of course you can ignore this comment and it will be perfectly fine :)
Fair question and don’t worry it doesn‘t bother me. I guess it‘s wrong, not like I‘m proud of my phobia or something, but I just don‘t want them near me and I definitely do not want to eat them. I also don‘t want to exterminate them or anything though, I recognise bugs are important to the ecosystem (more important than many animals people hold as pets or even humans tbh who damage it), but that doesn‘t mean I like them or want them near me. Maybe with a bit of exposure therapy I could be less triggered by them too, but just mentally thinking of their importance doesn‘t really change that for me.
If I had a garden maybe then my perspective would actually change now that I think of it, I still wouldn‘t want them in my room at all and still use bug nets, but having them live in the garden and be more often exposed to them that way, a sort of safe co-existence, I think I would grow tougher. It‘s just unlikely to ever happen as I‘m a poor renting city dweller who doesn‘t have ambition to grind for a mortgage.
I‘m also all for the biodiversity though in the cities, due to bugs I stay out of these areas (last time I walked in tall grass I had two ticks and they are dangerous here and I was lax on vaccinations luckily nothing happened), but I like that they can live in those spaces more due to environmentalist efforts.