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Conservatives announce new innocuous thing they're terrified of (www.thebeaverton.com)
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OTTAWA – The Conservative Party of Canada has officially announced that in addition to walkable cities, vaccines, and transgender children, they are also deeply afraid of eating bugs.

“We WON’T Eat Bugs,” the CPC said in an online petition it posted this week. “No one is asking us to, but we’re so scared someone might, and it could be Justin Trudeau. And that makes us furious and so very frightened of this version of Justin Trudeau that we made up who is making us eat bugs.”

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Holy moly, it's real.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7385019

[–] kyle@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What's it called when you eat the onion but turns out it actually is real?

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

This fucking timeline

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not the onion?

[–] kyle@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Normally yes, but the OP actually is an onion article.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The way I see it, it'd be similar to how ostrich eggs are sold in Canada and a lot of other places worldwide as a kind of novelty food, but most people just eat chicken eggs anyways.

From this article

Ashour said 10 per cent of the product is sold for human consumption. The rest is sold to the pet food industry.

"It's quite remarkable how normal insect consumption can be in some of these countries," Ashour said.