r/EatItYouFuckinCoward • u/broken__defraculator • 1d ago
Guy enjoying a mid trail protein snack
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u/Boring-Perspective61 1d ago
Yeah, hell no… also aren’t those spiders super beneficial to the ecosystems they are apart of.
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u/DiscussionSharp1407 1d ago
Pretty sure a single spider isn't going to change anything up, they die by the tens of thousands from birds and other predators.
The real worry here are parasites...
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u/Katert 1d ago
I hate spiders but this was awful. Totally unnecessary to have it killed this way just for clout.
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u/TitusImmortalis 1d ago
My man does this even without the camera, this is just one time there was a camera. Also, this is exactly how animals eat each other anyways.
This spider is just like "Damn, alright. Got got, I guess."7
u/avesatanass 23h ago
"this is how animals eat each other anyways" sure bro but the difference is we are capable of higher thinking. or...some of us at least
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u/TitusImmortalis 18h ago
You honestly believe you're better than the nature that produced you? You think you're somehow special or evolved because you're 50 degrees apart from the wild?
What would you do differently? Because whatever you do, it's the same amount of suffering. Suffering isn't even bad, either. It ends. Also also these creatures are not cognizant. They are reactionary. This is no different than if a bird or an ape did it, and no different from what it does to it's prey.
You're just thinking about it too much, because you're protected from it being a requirement of your existence, and have too much free time.
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u/Miserable_Suspect909 20m ago
So why don’t dog owners instead of restraining their dogs from mauling you let them because that’s what nature intended when you get hunted and found by dogs
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u/Miserable_Suspect909 19m ago
Also my mum kinda you know lives in a house genius so no nature there
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u/DollarStoreChameleon 1d ago
at least kill it first, ffs. another cruel video of eating something alive just because it isnt a mammal.. spiders are very polite when they feel safe. even if a spider feels threatened, ive never been bit and i hold em to move them to safer areas all the time. poor little fella
im aware things are eaten alive in nature, but we are people. we have no reason to eat an animal alive. dispatch quickly before you eat.
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u/Key_Coconut_9102 1d ago
so true tho. every single living organism on this planet has a soul, has feelings, they can feel pain too.
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u/r0sd0g 1d ago
I've also never understood the argument that if something can't feel pain it's fine to torture it. They still have a will to live, they're still distressed by the knowledge they are about to die. And the more research we do, the more we find out pretty much every terrestrial creature can feel pain. Some aquatic lifeforms lack a brain and nervous system but they still manage to respond to stimuli. Just... why are we so hellbent on excusing our cruelty? I don't get it.
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u/DollarStoreChameleon 1d ago
people are just cruel. yea its a spider, but it can still feel pain and respond to other negative or stressful stimuli. i cant understand these people
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u/Sh4rpSp00n 7h ago
I agree with you but souls aren't a real thing, there's never been any evidence for such a thing to exist
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u/Nikodemios 1d ago
"people" are not different from other animals.
I do agree you should kill something before eating it, but the pearl clutching is unfounded. Nature is brutal and we're a part of it.
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u/DollarStoreChameleon 1d ago
im well aware people are animals, but we can choose not to be brutal though??? we have plenty of means to kill something instead of causing it pain. why would you eat something alive and cause it to suffer when you can easily kill it first?
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u/HelloDeathspresso 1d ago
Looked like an orbweaver. So cruel.
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u/Alicewithhazeleyes 1d ago
Looks like a Joro to me which is invasive in the United States and if so, CHOMP AWAY
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u/Low-Equipment-2621 1d ago
It is so facinating to me that those things look so digusting to us and most of us would never consider eating them. But if it were from the sea we would think it's delicious and we would be charging premium for it.
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u/TitusImmortalis 1d ago
You're right! It's very interesting that ocean bugs are more edible and land bugs are less, but I think that ocean bugs have higher protein content and are more analogous to land meat animals in texture.
There's also more meat per gram than in insects.I think also insects are more likely to have parasites?
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u/Low-Equipment-2621 1d ago
Not sure about the parasites, but the meat per gram comes simply from size (volume grows faster than size).
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u/TitusImmortalis 1d ago
I mean it feels like a shrimp has way more protein mass than any individual insect that we could eat, y'know?
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u/Low-Equipment-2621 22h ago
Yeah that's right, probably because it can afford to be fat like all the other guys who are just floating in the water.
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u/Human-Contribution16 18h ago
This guy is one brain cell above wanting to wear his neighbors face skin as a mask.
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u/NoNo_Cilantro 1d ago
Since this is posted here, here’s an actual survival pro tip. If you’re out in the wild and you see a spider, don’t eat it. Unless of course you must eat it, but really you don’t.