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GhostofJohnMuir posted:I know it gets jokingly broached from time to time, but I'm honestly interested in exploring insects as a general animal protein source. Aquaculture can give you similar superior yields compared to traditional land based animals in terms of efficiency due to the buoyancy of water alleviating the need to spend energy fighting gravity, but there are very large water quality issues associated with aquaculture. Seems to me that in terms of energy and land footprint, insects really are a superior choice. I was curious about this as well. What would the results be of essentially shifting ranching down a trophic level? Trade cows, pigs, and chickens for crickets? Would they be more efficient with regards to land use? Could you grow enough of them to feed the same number of people (or hopefully more) as traditional meat animals but with less harm to the environment? Do grasshoppers taste good?
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Torka posted:I imagine that processing the crickets into a form that people find palatable (protein powder or something) would take extra energy. Not everyone's gonna be cool with eating an insect that looks like an insect No more energy than all the factory processing and frying we do for animals now, surely?
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lol people bring up the babies line but the back of the train getting grossed out by that revelation was easily the dumbest part of that movie. Like, motherfuckers y'all were all cannibals at one point how does this gross you out?
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Not a Children posted:I much prefer the Swiftian solution to this problem  ?(I know what you actually meant)
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