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Bird_Man_Yu posted...

I mean yeah you can read the ingredients to see if something has bugs in it to avoid buying them, but what happens when more and more things get them so you cannot avoid buying things with them?, That's likely what they're going for, do it slowly at a time so when it reaches that point, they can be like "Well you didn't complain X amount of months/years ago why complain now?, Eat the bugs peasant!".

What other ingredients has that happened with?

Bird_Man_Yu posted...

Let's not ignore that there are gonna be things in those bugs people will have allergic reactions to, let alone anything in those bugs us humans aren't built to be able to fully digest compared to certain animals

That's exactly why you have regulatory agencies reviewing them to determine whether or not they're safe to include in food. Bugs that trigger allergic reactions in significant numbers of people likely won't be ever allowed (i.e. you aren't going to see wasp flour any time soon). Bugs that can't be safely digested also won't. Those that are allowed are allowed because research into their safety has shown them to be safe for consumption (to say nothing of the dozens of cultures worldwide that have been eating these things without issue for longer than "Europe" has even been a recognized concept). This isn't a matter of some mustache-twirling executive saying "Eeeheehee feed them ALL the bugs!", this is a matter of prospective producers petitioning the regulatory agency to allow them to offer a protein source that's more economical and less environmentally damaging than meat.

Of course, there's also the point that half the ingredients out there already can't be properly digested by humans. The entire concept of hydrogenation produces fats that we can't break down properly, and that stuff's in everything. We've spent centuries breeding wheat into a form with an absolutely terrible glycemic index, robbing it of a lot of the nutritional benefit that made it worth cultivating in the first place. There are thousands upon thousands of food additives that are only considered safe because people *probably* won't eat enough of them to cause problems. Why fixate on the possibility that some bugs - most of which countless people already eat with no issues - might not be perfectly healthy?