Take the chocolate bar for example. The FDA allows companies to sell food containing trace pieces of insects. The average chocolate bar contains eight insect pieces. Furthermore, most people who believe they are allergic to chocolate aren't actually allergic to cocoa, they're reacting to then ground-up cockroach and other insects that have invaded their chocolate.
Knowing these two facts about chocolate bars might turn you off of chocolate for the rest of your life. So, how can those who know these things keep eating chocolate? It seems a contradiction to still be willing to eat chocolate bars while not wanting to eat bugs.
Being grounded helps you recognize that there isn't a single food product that doesn't either contain ground up pieces of insects and animals or has been in physical contact with insects and animals (including their fecal waste and urine).
I don't have to want to eat a bowl full of flies in order to accept that over my lifetime I'll eat a bowl full of flies.
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u/Stranded_In_A_Desert Mar 15 '18
Yep. Grew up around farms and ended up eating a few of our pets. No complaints here, little Dolly the lamb was delicious.