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"but I kept looking at the lollipop and wondering how much it hurt the scorpion getting entombed in molten sugar.

Earlier in the week I'd spoken with an expert in the psychology of diet and perceptions of food, American lecturer Dr. Mathew Ruby. He'd said something that had really resounded with me. “As far as we know insects aren’t suffering that much, but if we’re wrong, we’re wrong times how many more lives? How many more insects would have to die to contribute to two pounds of food?”

An argument for the meat industry is that the slaughter of one cow feeds dozens. But if we want to satisfy one person’s hunger with bugs, we have to kill thousands. To me, this feels like an ethical pitfall."

Excreted from this article about a girl who tries to eat bugs for a week and keeps throwing up. I almost threw up reading it.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywx9y5/this-is-what-happens-when-you-eat-nothing-but-bugs-for-a-week