Really cool. I would definitely be interested in trying this out depending on the price point.
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
People in developing countries don't have the luxury of access to the variety of different plants you need to make a vegetarian diet work.
What gave you that idea? The overwhelming majority of India is vegetarian
And also (to visual inspection) malnourished. At least, that was my impression when I was there.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
These guys are working on cricket bars as a protein source: https://www.exoprotein.com/ (No affiliation, they were a few desks over at a coworking space)
Chapulines[1], a form of fried grasshopper, are already a popular dish in Oaxaca. I've had them, they're tasty, a bit like salty, earthy, not very meaty crab I guess. In fact, there's already a cricket bar based off of this dish[2]. Americans in general are pretty squeamish about their food, but this is not true in many other parts of the world. See tripe, chocolate meat (dinuguan), balut, etc. 1 http://en.wikipedia.…
Ok, having seen balut, I'd starve before I ate that.
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#134Are we considering this more humane because the creatures are smaller? You're still trapping hundreds of living beings into a tiny container. Don't get me wrong -- I eat meat and consider it ultimately a natural part of life. I just don't understand why flies are somehow okay to trap and confine, but cows aren't.
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#135This is so weird. Are people really so set on eating animal protein that they'd rather eat insects than just eat plants? Yes, this is incredibly more efficient than eating most animal products, but so are plant-based foods, which already exist, taste pretty good, and most importantly, are not completely and utterly revolting.
People in developing countries don't have the luxury of access to the variety of different plants you need to make a vegetarian diet work.
And you think they're going to be able to buy this contraption?
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#136The widespread irrational disgust shamelessly expressed here, without regard for how expressing that disgust out loud is enforcing the status quo and contributing to the prevention of this ever being accepted in the mainstream, is exactly how I imagine the pervasiveness of homophobia in past generations. ...Which I think is a good thing, because it means it can be eliminated through a cultural shift assisted by mass…
Homophobia has not been eliminated and nearly everyone here expressing disgust has also stated that they realize their disgust is irrational.
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#137I've realized this breaks a willful ignorance I have over animal-based food. Coming from afar, I can put aside the realities of meat eating and imagine chickens and cows dancing hand in hand in a lush green field enjoying their short lives.. (and yes, I can do this, otherwise I'd be a vegetarian.) With Farm 432 in my kitchen, however, the idea of life multiplying to keep my belly full is right in my face. How sickeni…
I have gone flexitarian for this reason. As someone concerned with global warming, I found it troubling to eat meet regularly. Couple that with industrial agriculture and that did it for me. If its at someones place I won't make a big deal, but I basically won't buy meat unless its particularly hard to get around. Even then its pretty much only fish and chicken...
I've always found this fish-is-holier-than-red-meat take a bit confusing. Overfishing is a huge problem worldwide. Eating responsibly farmed beef, while expensive, seems less impactful than eating many (most?) types of commonly consumed fish.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you ever watched Fear Factor, you might remember that pretty much anything is edible, including blended raw cow eyeballs and such :) It's always a matter of whether it's enjoyable .
Michelle Lotito air an aircraft and several bicycles.
Ha, interesting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Can you imagine steaming and eating a two-pound cockroach? But that's basically what a lobster is. Cockroaches are insects. Lobsters are not. There is a huge difference there.
But not as different as, say, lobsters and cows. Lobsters and Cockroaches are both nocturnal, omnivorous, scavenging, arthropods.
This is an absurd comparison in the context of food. When it comes to eating animals, we (Westerners) are used to eating muscle tissue. Cows and lobsters have large, edible muscles that can be separated from the rest of the body for consumption, cockroaches do not.
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#140I talked to my kids about eating insects the other day with the expected results in the form of 'ew' and such. We've spent so much time in modern society associating insects with disease it's hard to dissassociate. For some reason shrimp which are essentially bugs are no problem because (I think) they come from the ocean, so there's an obvious mental line that can dissassociate them from other bugs. This is a great i…
These guys are working on cricket bars as a protein source: https://www.exoprotein.com/ (No affiliation, they were a few desks over at a coworking space)
I ordered a box recently and they're not bad, as energy bars go. A little too sweet for my taste.