Message #1: "Scratch my nose"
Message #2: "Shoot me"

Sorry if you don't like my reasons but they are shared with many people. It is telling that as soon as they get meat like chicken or beef people who otherwise eat insects (and there aren't that many that do it with any regularity) immediately switch over. You seem to be taking this WAY too personally.

I think you pretty much nailed it here. With bigger animals like cows and even shrimp you can separate the meat from the shell, with insects you can't. Insect exoskeletons also frequently come with spiny legs, thoraxes, etc, not the most pleasant things to have in your mouth or try to swallow.

Supposedly roasting insects and grubs makes the interiors firmer and less gooey. As far as taste goes it is telling that advocates always (for instances) promote chili powder covered or chocolate dipped insects. Even they can't handle eating bugs as they are.

There is also the issue of disease and parasites. I'm not sure you can clean insect bodies off as thoroughly as you could, say, a lobster. With beef you are taking meat that hasn't been exposed to the environment unlike insect bodies. With insects you are also eating the contents of their digestive tracts.

How would Russians communicate without cursing?

Reminds me of the pornography generating computers in 1984 that took the same few plots and edited them together over and over.

That sounds like what I meant then

Shouldn't this be a project(s) funded by the NSF? Just because it might have national security implications doesn't mean the CIA's role should be expanding into scientific research.

It would be interesting though if they saw such gene or genes in a majority of the type-a personalities typically found in politics or corporate boardrooms.

Either that or he became "born again" and needed blame someone else for his problems.

So how are these folks supposed to buy all the crap these companies are trying to sell? Or have they turned their back on the US market?

Some people would pay extra for that

Not unlike the damn TVs they stuck on the back seats of some cabs in Boston. I just want a moment of peace in a cab (even chatting with the driver would be better) not be forced to watch news about the latest disaster or murder. News is like finding pennies, it is available everywhere and you'll get it eventually. I don't need it shoved at me in every venue. Fortunately I was able to turn it off. I'm sure someday they will remove that option.

Why not just go full Clockwork Orange and strap us down and pry our eyes open and force us to watch ads?

Ironically any product forced on me using this bone conduction method will just piss me off so much that it will leave me deliberately avoiding that product.

Just shows that in the US we prefer that you do all your mass attacks with guns.

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