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Crickets don't taste like much. But we also each chicken. It's all about how you prepare it.
I meant it as a joke about the size of crickets but I didn't write it very well.
I liked it :)
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#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
I ordered a cricket steak and was a little disappointed. But seriously its not stigma, its cuisine preference.
Crickets don't taste like much. But we also each chicken. It's all about how you prepare it.
I had them fried and seasoned/salted iirc, they were surprisingly good little snack. I think it'd take a bit of time for most people to not be squeamish about casually eating them, rather than as a little novelty thing at a food festival.
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#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does anyone in the thread need to have said it? That's been in the news cycle for the last half-decade and major NGOs as well as governments now (EU approved bugs as food) are on board, saying it'll be necessary to feed everybody their protein in the future. Why do you think that's not relevant?
Because they were responding to a person as if they had said it. You can't have a discussion where you just make up what the other person said and respond to that. And in fact you've done exactly the same. You've assigned a position to me that I haven't stated at all. It'd be like me ending this comment with: Why would you make such a inflammatory anti-muslim joke on Eid Al Fitr of all days?
The bug comment is not saying anyone said it. It's to demonstrate limits.
On a discussion about general religions, or future relevant policies, a comment like this would be normal, "I can respect Islam but I'm not going to stop eating pork".
And then I guess you would say "who said you have to stop eating pork?".
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#414I mean, we have been depleting soil fertility through the use of synthetic fertilizers for decades. It’s been a self-destructive cycle. Perhaps some farmers might switch to practices that are not so dependent upon as much to external inputs … but even switching to things like no-till or using local inputs like manure, or using soil-regenerating practices like polycropping or integrated pest-control is going to take t…
> Better than food security is food sovereignty, and people within a locality being able to feed themselves.
That's all well and good, but the implication is that people should live where they grow their food, or move where it can be done. Implementing it at scale would mean either billions of dead or billions of refugees.
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How much arable land does livestock take up?
Nearly everywhere cattle can graze, you can grow other crops. As a percentage of all livestock land usage, there is not much chicken, goat, or pig grazing left in the world. It is true most other livestock CAN utilize land that can't be used efficiently for other forms of agriculture. In practice, less so.
There's not much use for the heaths in western England besides grazing sheep.
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>> This is disputed Credibly disputed? We’re talking about “big oil” here, you’ll forgive me if my first reaction is to imagine a pre-completed study with all the right conclusions and a big fat cheque hidden under page 3, being shopped around academia looking for someone willing to sign their name to it :-) From a layman’s point of view the claim just smells weird. On one hand, we take carbon out of the atmosphere o…
The same of course goes the other way, Big Ag definitely is able to put its hand on the Department of Ag. The report I referred to is from GAO, which is much more independent than USDA. I couldn't find the GAO report I mentioned but I found a more recent one published this year by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the more prestigious journals in the world. In their abstract in addition to m…
That was a good link, it seems like replacing corn with an alternative crop really is the sensible direction.
There is something of note in the methodology behind the figures though:
“We apply our models only domestically”
Throughout the years of this study, the US imported most of its gasoline. The production emissions are excluded. It’s not comparing like with like.
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My favorite are the threads about how we need to get rid of cars and switch everyone to public transit and cycling. :)
Two counter points. - Where I live (The Netherlands) you don’t have to live in a city to have good PT. There are places that you cannot reach by train or bus but they are few. - While sometimes a car is necessary, the cars many people prefer (insanely oversized “trucks”) are hardly ever necessary.
It always amuses me when Europeans are confused by the lack of good public transit in much of the USA. Come visit here and use our public transit and you'll see why we like cars.
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#418Food security always makes me think about food waste. When I was 17 years old I went to Sweden as part of a cultural exchange program (I'm from South America). One of the first things that shocked me was the sheer amount of food being wasted for no reason whatsoever. In my country, even though I come from a privileged family, you can't shield yourself away from poverty. Throughout my entire life living with my parent…
I was shocked at my first uni cafeteria dishwashing job. Plates coming back literally full, untouched.
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#419The Green Revolution of the 1960s proved that we could - that Malthusian claims were BS. What we have now is those same Malthusians actively sabotaging the roots of the Green Revolution by shutting down energy and means of production. Technically mass murder.
> Malthusian claims were BS
The Green Revolution merely raised the ceiling massively higher. It did not perform any magic to make it permanently vanish.
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#420Food security always makes me think about food waste. When I was 17 years old I went to Sweden as part of a cultural exchange program (I'm from South America). One of the first things that shocked me was the sheer amount of food being wasted for no reason whatsoever. In my country, even though I come from a privileged family, you can't shield yourself away from poverty. Throughout my entire life living with my parent…
I'm from the U.S., and I was actually raised with a somewhat similar view of food waste. But my parents were born in the 30s. Many of my contemporaries had parents born in the 40s or 50s, and their attitudes were very different. I was over at a friend's house a few years ago, and she had prepared lunch for her daughter. When her daughter complained she didn't like it, my friend threw the whole plate food in the trash…
Your friend's kid sounds spoiled tbh.