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Do you want to know what opened my third eye? Getting people to eat insects won't 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 they're farmed? Primarily feed made from rice and beans, which, you know, could be used to actually feed people?
And beans provide protein, protein that doesn't involve eating an animal of any type. So basically this whole eat the bugs thing is right-wing bullshit and future slop.
It's so weird how people avoid the obvious choice. The idea that you'd have to process rice and beans through insects first, LOL.
As a vegetarian, I get to answer the "where do you get your protein?!!" 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.
I've 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 "protein" 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.
lol, "I'd rather eat grasshoppers than rice and beans" is certainly a take.
I'd rather have a mix honestly
Came here to say this. I don't even understand the desire to serve up insects, at scale, as a substitute for the carnist culture status quo, the omnivores swap to being fed insects?
I would think by the time that scaled up, scaling up cultured meat would hit first. Although lots of USian states are trying to preemptively ban it as a protection measure of the status quo, LOL.
As always, the conservatives are visionary as ever - killing solar and wind turbine projects, banning cultured meat, etc....
And that feed is food that humans themselves can easily eat. You're 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. It's not food that humans would be using.
Why would uoubfeed then rice and beans. Eat grasshoppers or crickets.