Rollinsā claim that prices for other protein sources were ācoming downā is inaccurate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of eggs, while lower than in 2025, has increased in recent months, increasing by 4.3% from May to June, falling by 0.5% from June to July, and then increasing again by 2.9% from July to August. Pork and chicken costs both increased by 0.4% from July to August.
Meanwhile, prices for ground beef hit a new record after reaching an average price of around $7.16 per pound as of August, an increase of 0.6% from July and 7.9% when compared with the previous year.
āIf Joe Biden said anything close to this, MAGA wouldāve had a total meltdown,ā argued Democratic influencer Harry Sisson in a social media post on X to his more than 400,000 followers. āNow this is just part of Trumpās messaging. Hypocrisy at its finest.ā
Others, like the progressive media organization MeidasTouch, jokingly argued that Rollins was āabout two weeks away from telling people they can always eat bugs.ā
āYou will eat the bugs, you will live in the pod,ā quipped Damin Toell, a New York-based attorney, in a social media post on X.
A multi-millionaire telling people to eat other protein that they also cannot afford is about as close to a ālet them eat cakeā moment as weāll probably get.
Does America need to ween itself off of its addiction to beef specifically, and over-consumption of protein (especially animal protein) in general? Yes, absolutely.
Does this particular person saying this as a member of this particular administration, for these poor particular reasons have the exact tenor of āLet them cakeā? Also, yes, 100%.
The entire developed world needs to ween itself off of so much animal protein.
If we could trim the population down to the hundred million this world can handle weād be in a much better position.
Genuinely insane to just spout fascist bulllshit in public like this.
You think being realistic about the earthās carrying capacity is fascist?
I donāt debate fascists. But for the benefit of anyone else who happens to read this far, overpopulation is a fascist myth propagated by people who, for some reason, never want to talk about exactly which people need to die in order for the rest of us to live.
The reality is that a) human population is already on a trajectory towards a stable equilibrium, and b) the Earth provides more than enough resources for all of humanity. Weāve never had a problem with sufficiency, we have only ever had a problem with distribution and waste. If we built our societies around the idea of giving people what they need, instead of on the notion of how hoarding and controlling resources can enrich a few, no one would ever go hungry or without shelter or medicine or anything else they require.
Iām on mobile right now, but Iāll try to provide some links later for anyone who is interested in learning more about this.
Next youāll try to prove vaccines cause genocides.
āIf Joe Biden said anything close to this, MAGA wouldāve had a total meltdown,ā argued Democratic influencer Harry Sisson in a social media post on X to his more than 400,000 followers. āNow this is just part of Trumpās messaging. Hypocrisy at its finest.ā
Republicans have been melting down about ābeing forced to eat the bugsā for over a fucking decade without anyone saying it. I still remember when I used to listen to a conservative shithead podcast (wanted to follow the shithead right and know their awful arguments, but eventually it wasnāt worth the brainrot) and they constantly talked about that and even had the most asinine jingles about it.
Looking back, Iām amazed at how much time I wasted subjecting myself to thatā¦
āYou will eat bugs.ā
āDude, weāve killed off most of the bugs too.ā
Itās weird when I see articles like this
Bugs Were Supposed to be the Future of Food. Now, the Industry is Collapsing.
Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as critical to sustainably feeding a growing human population, because insects have a much smaller carbon footprint than beef, pork, and chicken.
It seems like we are missing the obvious. People would really rather eat bugs rather thanā¦simply cut down on meat? As weird as I sometimes find omnivores rationalizing some of their behaviors, that strikes me as a really wild turn, butā¦shrug?
Something tells me that eating things like rice and beans would be a helluva lot more sustainable than trying to scale up insect production for human consumption.
But things turn extremely irrational over food, Iāve found, and so when I saw the conspiracy theorists losing their fucking minds over eating bugs, it definitely tracks. This dumb conspiracy theory sometimes surfaces in the everyday - a few omnivores have told me (when they learn Iām vegetarian) that the donāt want to eat the bugs.
I did not and still donāt know how these two issues are in any way related other than that reactionary omnivores have this innate āyou cannot tell ME what to do!ā attitude about what they are eating whenever they are talking to a vegan or vegetarian and it often surfaces in really strange ways: they will tell you how much they donāt like salad (I donāt eat salad hardly at all) or tofu (tofu is not required for vegetarian or vegan diet), that they hate all vegetables and eat mostly meat (thatās a bad place to be for a lot of reasons, no matter who you are) that ācarbsā, aka, vegetables or fruit are ābad for youā (what the actual fuck?) or sometimes, āthey wonāt eat bugsā. Not sure why they think vegans or vegetarians would have the least bit of interest in eating insects, butā¦
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What an American conservative take you have there. Why donāt you like them? Theyāre just like you.
Why donāt I like Americans?
Iām guessing you voted for Trump. Because thatās the only thing that explains a dumb question like that.
Because you were one yourself and you ran away instead of doing the hard work of changing things for the better here.
Sorey, the smart ones got out of the Nazi country before they got dead.
Do you want to know what opened my third eye? Getting people to eat insects wonāt do shit because it will actually cost just as much as raising actual meat. To actually raise insects you need to feed them. What do insects eat when theyāre farmed? Primarily feed made from rice and beans, which, you know, could be used to actually feed people?
And beans provide protein, protein that doesnāt involve eating an animal of any type. So basically this whole eat the bugs thing is right-wing bullshit and future slop.
Itās so weird how people avoid the obvious choice. The idea that youād have to process rice and beans through insects first, LOL.
As a vegetarian, I get to answer the āwhere do you get your protein?!!ā question all too much. Before I switched, I used to think this was just a trope that never really happened, given I switched over 20 years ago, but even then, I figured most adults had at least some rudimentary grasp on nutrition. The answer to that is apparently: No, no they do not.
Iāve literally been in the process of eating something with beans in it, and was asked that question, LOL. Given that this question is frequently mocked in the veg-n world, I sometimes think these might be people in on the joke, but nope.
There is just tons of delusion around the notion of āproteinā in this country.
Insects actually have a way better food to growth ratio than cattle or poultry. You can produce more insects with less feed.
And that feed is food that humans themselves can easily eat. Youāre literally advocating eating insects that we fed with food we can eat ourselves rather than just eat the food we grew.
Insects will eat plant waste that was already going to livestock.
Crops are graded after harvest. The first few grades are for human use, like 1 goes to stores, 2 gets canned or frozen, 3 gets processed into ingredients.
The last few grades are for animal feed, because the quality is too low.
So, no. Itās not food that humans would be using.
Deceptive headline. This is a quote from someone lampooning her, not her.
FFS yes Republicants are hypocrites etc etc but Americans do not in fact need to eat a steak at every meal.
This should be higher. This is some kind of headline crime. Is Raw Story always like this?
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During the covid years, I had to laugh that your basic con believed all of these things and spent so much time online and IRL trying to convince others of them. Most basic cons probably still believe them:
- That āTechBrosā (hate that term - Iām a ātech broā and have been for virtually all of my life, but not one of these oligarchs) are pushing a progressive agenda and ācensoring conservativesā and ācancelling conservativesā because consā posts donāt go viral or whatever.
- That it was all Democrats in on a pedo ring and affiliated with Epstein.
- That things like the WEF represents progressives.
This last one is relevant because the cons took WEF talks as something the āelitesā (in conservative head canon, another word for progressives. lol, yeah, it makes zero sense, but nothing in their cinematic universe does) were pushing and the likes of Alex Jones just fucking ran with thisā¦any and all calls for changing your diet (veganism/vegetarianism) or addressing climate change or having walkable cities almost always had a certain type pop up to quote this stuff, saying āyou will own nothing and be happyā and āTHEY want us to eat bugsā or āOMG! Itās the Great Reset!!!111ā
āTechBrosā (hate that termā¦)
Unless you started as a frat-boy trust-fund dickhead, the ābroā part is unlikely to apply to you.
Iāve been in tech for a very long time, 46 years so far, but have been more often called āhackerā or ādirtbagā than ābro.ā
I fully agree with the rest of your observations about the brainwashing of the rubes.
Another observation: I now live in a (nearly) 15-minute city and walkability contributes massively to the quality of life here. I drive about once a week and am planning to retire the car in a few months. When I cycle past the city limits, conservative morons would be shocked to hear that thereās nobody at a checkpoint to turn me back. Just sheep on hillsides, ancient hedges and a few excellent country pubs. Oh, the horror!
People will do anything to avoid eating plants
not me. I love plants. I want lettuce and tomatoes on my BLT :D
I can go veg for about 2-3 weeksā¦ I can stay pescatarian for 4-5 monthsā¦ but damn giving up bacon entirely just breaks me lol.
I am weak and old and should be culled from the herd.
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Stop. Eating. Animals.
Rice and beans is a complete protein btw.
The idea of a complete protein turned out to be not so solid btw but I support people eating more plant-based protein.
So we donāt need the 9 essential ameno acids? Or ā¦
As I recall, there used to be an assumption that it was beneficial to eat and digest all 9 essential aminos together in one meal, and thatās where the idea of the complete protein came from. You do still need to get all 9 regularly, but in practice any normal, reasonably diverse diet should accomplish that.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/do-i-need-to-worry-about-eating-complete-proteins
I found this and it more or less sums things up. Sorry if this seems nitpicky
The problem with that was that protein requirements are actually stupid low.
So you donāt need to worry about amino acids. Just eat a diverse set of veggies, and youāll meet your protein needs easily.
