I am pretty bemused by this thought process: Not that I can read my fellow human's minds, but I imagine for much of the affluent, wanting to colonize mars globe, the set of preferences would go...
I am pretty bemused by this thought process:
The researchers noted that raising farm animals for dairy and meat would not be practical on Mars in the near term because of the challenges of shipping them across space. At the same time, they noted that most people do not want to go completely vegetarian. The solution? Insect farms and lab-grown meat, they suggested.
Not that I can read my fellow human's minds, but I imagine for much of the affluent, wanting to colonize mars globe, the set of preferences would go something like "A diet including meat" > "A vegetarian diet" > "A diet including insects."
I of course am mostly interested in how a mars colony of 1M people would be socially organized, though as far as I know that's a topic which all the currently pursuing parties are not talking about.
A couple of years back, there was a Kickstarter for a mealworm home growing kit. It promised "empowerment" and a "food revolution" in your kitchen, arguing that you could replace a lot of your...
Not that I can read my fellow human's minds, but I imagine for much of the affluent, wanting to colonize mars globe, the set of preferences would go something like "A diet including meat" > "A vegetarian diet" > "A diet including insects."
A couple of years back, there was a Kickstarter for a mealworm home growing kit. It promised "empowerment" and a "food revolution" in your kitchen, arguing that you could replace a lot of your meat consumption with this sustainable protein source that is easy to farm in your kitchen. I thought it was a great idea but the price was simply too high for me to take part in the campaign, especially knowing how first versions of these things rarely really work as intended.
Still, I have kept an eye on the project, and I must say that its development sort of seems to prove your point. After the successful campaign, the company made what looked like a marketing pivot, and their website started to talk about mealworms more in terms of being an "upcycling" device and a potential food source for your pets, livestock and plants, only mentioning the potential for human consumption in passing. And when earlier this year they tried to return with another Kickstarter, the message had switched even more to recycling and education.
Meanwhile in Finland, back in 2017 one of the largest food corporations launched a bread that used crickets as a protein source. As I understand it, while the sales were high at first, the interest dropped pretty soon and the product is no longer on sale.
Personally, I have never really shared the apparently common aversion to eating insects and so I would probably vote something like insects > vegetarian > non-insect meat, provided insects were readily available and sustainable. Not that I have any particular fetishism for eating insects, nor have I ever really eaten them, but I do like things like prawns, oysters and snails, and if I could get insects similarly nicely prepared or pre-packaged, I can't imagine why I would be revolted by them. That said, I can and do survive without meat altogether, so it's not like I absolutely have to have cockroaches in a tomato sauce or my life won't be complete.
I am pretty bemused by this thought process:
Not that I can read my fellow human's minds, but I imagine for much of the affluent, wanting to colonize mars globe, the set of preferences would go something like "A diet including meat" > "A vegetarian diet" > "A diet including insects."
I of course am mostly interested in how a mars colony of 1M people would be socially organized, though as far as I know that's a topic which all the currently pursuing parties are not talking about.
A couple of years back, there was a Kickstarter for a mealworm home growing kit. It promised "empowerment" and a "food revolution" in your kitchen, arguing that you could replace a lot of your meat consumption with this sustainable protein source that is easy to farm in your kitchen. I thought it was a great idea but the price was simply too high for me to take part in the campaign, especially knowing how first versions of these things rarely really work as intended.
Still, I have kept an eye on the project, and I must say that its development sort of seems to prove your point. After the successful campaign, the company made what looked like a marketing pivot, and their website started to talk about mealworms more in terms of being an "upcycling" device and a potential food source for your pets, livestock and plants, only mentioning the potential for human consumption in passing. And when earlier this year they tried to return with another Kickstarter, the message had switched even more to recycling and education.
Meanwhile in Finland, back in 2017 one of the largest food corporations launched a bread that used crickets as a protein source. As I understand it, while the sales were high at first, the interest dropped pretty soon and the product is no longer on sale.
Personally, I have never really shared the apparently common aversion to eating insects and so I would probably vote something like insects > vegetarian > non-insect meat, provided insects were readily available and sustainable. Not that I have any particular fetishism for eating insects, nor have I ever really eaten them, but I do like things like prawns, oysters and snails, and if I could get insects similarly nicely prepared or pre-packaged, I can't imagine why I would be revolted by them. That said, I can and do survive without meat altogether, so it's not like I absolutely have to have cockroaches in a tomato sauce or my life won't be complete.