We Should All Just Eat Bugs?
Summary
A subway rider wants you to eat bugs. Crickets, specifically. His pitch? They're good for the environment because they're cold-blooded, so unlike cows that burn most of their food heating their bodies, you can just "put them in a drawer" with some food and you've got dinner. Kareem is incredulous. "Are you a lizard, bro?" The stranger insists most of the world already eats bugs, which doesn't make Kareem any more sold on the idea. It's a bizarre environmental argument that lands somewhere between earnest and completely unhinged.
Full Transcript
You ever eat a bug? Have I ever eaten a bug? Yeah, no, they're great, dude. You should eat a bug, man. They're great.
Your take is that I should eat bugs? Everyone should eat bugs? Yeah, they're good for the environment.
Well, then why would we eat them? No, I mean, it's like, it's good to eat them for the environment. It, like, takes way less water and, like, food cuz they're cold-blooded. So, like, a cow is, like, warm-blooded, so most of the food we give it goes to heating its body, whereas, like, a bug, you just, like, you put in the drawer, dude. Just put some food in there, you got dinner.
What kind of bugs do you suggest I eat? Crickets are great. Crickets, yeah.
Are you a lizard, bro? What are you talking about right now? I mean, most—you come on the show and you tell me to eat bugs?
Yeah, dude. Most of the world eats bugs. I'm dead.
So what's your take?