How do the vegetarians feel about that? I know lots that eat dairy and eggs, because they are sort of a by-product of the animals⌠but ground up insects?
Any vegetarians here? Thoughts?
Yea⌠no*.
Insects are animals, for one - so at the very least itâs technically incorrect. Those vegetarians that âjust eat fishâ, or âonly eat pork every third Sundayâ might be OK with insects I guess? But that hardly counts.
Besides vegetarians donât need a replacement for meat, meat eaters do (whether you like it or not, itâs completely unsustainable, one day the cognitive dissonance of caring about climate change and eating meat will wear off⌠then you get bugs 
).
Oh, btw, vegetarians that donât eat eggs and dairy (and other byproducts) are (generally) vegans. 
And obv. they wouldnât be into eating insects either.
* Canât speak for everyone that uses a title, but honestly⌠no.
Radiatore! I love radiatore! They suck up sauce like no other pasta, and I havenât seen them for sale in years. I might even eat bugs⌠well⌠maybe not.
This is progress.
LOL - I know the difference between vegans and vegetarians! ;p
And yeah, i donât think vegans would be down with this either.
Some vegetarians I know just âdonât eat mammalsâ but they eat fish though so likely theyâd be ok with this?
But some donât eat any animals, but do dairy and eggs. So many variations on a theme!
Sorry didnât mean to patronise! 
Eh, I donât wanna be that guy (Iâm gonna be though!), but you should be putting quotes around the word vegetarian too. Vegetarians donât eat meat (be it donkey, human, fish, spider, unicornâŚ), itâs not really ambiguous. But hey, itâs not like you have to take an oath to get your membership 
I am only using the word they themselves use to describe themselves!
Side note, a vegan friend of mine had a go round on tinder with a girl who claimed to be vegan⌠and yet ate eggs. That was fun to watch. 
I wouldnât have a problem with eating insects. Most of the world eats insects regularly. Hell, everyone eats insects, whether they know it or not.
I feel that we are one global disaster away from having to switch over to insects as a main food source because the price of meat will be too expensive.
And respecting their chosen identity is good⌠I guess? This is like a philosophical dilemma!
Iâm sure her heart was in the right place⌠shame about her brain! 
Her reasoning was basically âchicken lay eggsâ ⌠so might as well eat them? I guess?
Supply and demand are foreign concepts to someâŚ
Or you could just⌠dun dun dun⌠eat vegetables and nuts and pulses and stuff!
Seriously though I do agree with you (and said much the same ting above), if you eat meat, then thatâs the way itâs going (unless the lab grown stuff can be in any way sustainable) - but Iâve never quite got the insect lobbyâs (and yes, there is one) angle that itâs an inevitability - like âyou have to eat something that was sentient! So why not bugs?â. Itâs like, hello, or maybe donât do that? 
Youâre right about eating them whether you like it or not though - but hey, I also inhale aerosol shit, but Iâm not gonna start doing it recreationally
I had a girlfriend, years ago, who was Seventh-Day Adventist. She worked in a Subway. She told me for religious reasons, she was âvegetarian except bacon.â
To be fair I get that as a philosophy - however as you rightly say, thatâs not how it works honey.
I really wish it was though 
Thereâs a pub near my brothers that has delicious nut-mushroom patty veggie burgers. And they are DIVINE with bacon and cheese. Seriously, I recommend this! 
I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that everyone will change their habits because it is the ethical or more healthy thing to do. Right now, the US is focused on money as a deciding factor in everything we do. The only way to effectively change most Americanâs minds is to punch them in the wallet.
Actually, a lot of us were on the âYay! Less Factory Farmingâ bandwagon for quite some time. More than enough reason to push people to eat crickets instead of cows. (seriously, if that cricket doesnât shut up ⌠)
Iâm totally not a vegan and love chicken because I think theyâre evil little asshats and deserve to die. I love fresh vegetables though, because theyâre still just a tiny bit alive. Way better than ethically cooked ones.
Similarly, I would find Trump Jerky more ethical than vegetable jerky because Trump Jerky removes a Trump.
I also pretty much live off of amino shakes and think itâs weird to eat socially, so Iâve probably kind of stepped past this particular dispute.
In a sense there is no such thing as a true vegan, since they probably eat insects or insect parts in their vegetables and grains unknowingly.
If climate change is the issue, and vegans who live in cold climates wonât wear wool or down, it means they are probably wearing polypropylene, which is basically plastic, and made from fossil fuels (and of course they probably use oil or gas heat as well, but even wood stoves contribute to climate change.)
