Edible insects, parasites, microbiome

I will never eat the bugs.

Part II of yesterday's post is coming tomorrow, had to attend a meeting today with a friend. Nonetheless, I think long-term this is fairly important.

It has been known for quite a while there is a massive push for planetary dietary change, steering the majority of the world’s population from animal protein to different forms of synthetic protein. One favored by many of the ones pushing this change under different agendas is plant-based. If anyone ever annoys you about plant-based protein, just show them this. Plant-based will never have the same nutritional value as animal protein, regardless of how much they “add” or gene edit it.

The other, dare I say more nefarious from my perspective, is bug-based everything. Being vehemently against synthetic forms of protein it never crossed my mind to check for the following. This was brought to my attention my Zack Vorhees, aka Perpetual Maniac, came to fame when he decided to whistleblow Google meddling with many aspects of society.

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Parasites were detected in 81% of the sample, and at least 30% are known to be potentially harmful to humans. There is a whole section on each type of parasite that could be harmful to humans in the paper. Quite a few of these usually affect the lungs and the gut. Thankfully we haven’t been through a pandemic with a respiratory virus known to attack both the gut and lungs.

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In fact, after this was brought to my attention, merely spending 30 minutes in any academic search engine will get you dozen or so results going back almost 10 years on the concern about the safety of edible insects. There will be an ever-growing push to force people out of normal diets and into synthetic ones.

And given the last two years and how concerned governments were with experimental vaccines, do you really think they will oppose this or have any safety concerns at all ?

Parasites have a very distinct and powerful effect on the gut, and the microbiome.

Together, these observations suggest that parasites can serve as ecosystem engineers for gut microbes by altering the physical landscape in which they reside. Moreover, current evidence suggests that the type of effects observed may broadly differ between parasitic helminths and protozoa. While helminths can promote barrier function and limit bacterial translocation, virulent parasitic protozoa may often have the opposite effect, degrading barrier function and allowing closer interaction between bacteria and the epithelium. This contrast is illustrated by the suite of interactions between the microbiota and two types of parasites—Trichuris spp. nematodes and the protozoan parasite T. gondii—many of which are known or thought to involve changes to epithelial barrier function

Given everything we know so far about SARS-CoV-2, you tell me if eating parasite-ridden bugs is a great idea ? Not that anyone care, they will push it hard anyway.

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