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Solkanar512
Dec 28, 2006

by the sex ghost

pidan posted:

So, just introduce the insects as "people from this Indigenous nation eat them, and they all live to be 100 years old". Start them off as high-price and fancy, and lots of people will give it a try. Insect-eating is already a status symbol among the world travel crowd, so it shouldn't be that hard to scale up.

This is pretty loving patronizing to be quite honest. No one is going to solve world scale food issues by playing the Whole Foods model of "only the rich are allowed 'good' food, and treating people like complete idiots isn't to effective either.

The only thing that's worse you could do is scream "fatty fatty fatty" like others on this thread.

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Solkanar512
Dec 28, 2006

by the sex ghost

pidan posted:

I wasn't talking about world scale food issues, I was talking about how to get the global rich to start eating insects (because that's what this thread wants them to do).

I don't think insects, vertical farming or any other innovation internet people like to fantasize about is going to solve global food issues. The only way to solve that is by an intelligent agricultural policy that prioritizes food production over cash crops, and by getting people in general to treat meat as an expensive sunday food again.

And you aren't going to do that by playing games or encouraging the rich to eat what you want them to eat through stupid marketing games. You're going to do it by educating people on the information found in the very first post of this thread. Treating people as too stupid for their own good isn't the way to go here.

Solkanar512
Dec 28, 2006

by the sex ghost
Having worked in food safety for a number of years, you sound like you're full of poo poo.

E Coli, salmonella, listeria, and tuberculosis for you raw milk assholes aren't diseases to take lightly.

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