Warning is given for those who, like my spouse, really don't want to feast their eyes on macrophotos of insects. In keeping with the theme of food sustainability during the American Thanksgiving...
Warning is given for those who, like my spouse, really don't want to feast their eyes on macrophotos of insects.
In keeping with the theme of food sustainability during the American Thanksgiving holiday, insects are eaten practically everywhere except most Western nations. They're nutritious and cheap to raise, though bugs have a reputation as unhygienic due to the wide range of environments they thrive in.
Chitin isn't an insurmountable obstacle for better-marketed crustacean consumption, so it's not unlikely you'll see various kinds of bug surimi and powders creeping into your larder soon.
Yeah, I think we in the West have managed to effectively divorce the unpalatable aspects of raising, slaughtering and consuming domesticated animals from the general public (so much so it's...
Yeah, I think we in the West have managed to effectively divorce the unpalatable aspects of raising, slaughtering and consuming domesticated animals from the general public (so much so it's actually a huge problem, IMO). So I definitely don't see any reason why the same couldn't be done with insects via bug derived surimi, protein powders and fortified flours. But I can't see most people in the West consuming insects whole (other than as a novelty) or even processing them themselves, simply because of said unpalatability and overall squeamishness towards them.
However with that said, I don't know if I totally buy the "it's inevitable they are going to become a mainstay of our diets" line that many doom & gloomists constantly put forth. I think less animal protein and more vegetable/algae/fungi derived protein is the more likely switch that is going to be made by the general populace, at least until lab grown meat is more viable and cheap to produce.
Thinking far off, I can also honestly see something like the sligs from Dune (genetically engineered livestock that are designed to subsist on our societies waste) eventually becoming a reality.
Warning is given for those who, like my spouse, really don't want to feast their eyes on macrophotos of insects.
In keeping with the theme of food sustainability during the American Thanksgiving holiday, insects are eaten practically everywhere except most Western nations. They're nutritious and cheap to raise, though bugs have a reputation as unhygienic due to the wide range of environments they thrive in.
Chitin isn't an insurmountable obstacle for better-marketed crustacean consumption, so it's not unlikely you'll see various kinds of bug surimi and powders creeping into your larder soon.
Yeah, I think we in the West have managed to effectively divorce the unpalatable aspects of raising, slaughtering and consuming domesticated animals from the general public (so much so it's actually a huge problem, IMO). So I definitely don't see any reason why the same couldn't be done with insects via bug derived surimi, protein powders and fortified flours. But I can't see most people in the West consuming insects whole (other than as a novelty) or even processing them themselves, simply because of said unpalatability and overall squeamishness towards them.
However with that said, I don't know if I totally buy the "it's inevitable they are going to become a mainstay of our diets" line that many doom & gloomists constantly put forth. I think less animal protein and more vegetable/algae/fungi derived protein is the more likely switch that is going to be made by the general populace, at least until lab grown meat is more viable and cheap to produce.
Thinking far off, I can also honestly see something like the sligs from Dune (genetically engineered livestock that are designed to subsist on our societies waste) eventually becoming a reality.