https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-03/fake-meat-industry-eyes-crickets-beetles-mealworms-maggots-for-burgers

  • AlwaysNew [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Why are want entitled to eating plants though? Jainism is the only veganism that makes sense to me

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      For the majority of plants we eat it is kinda their kink. They have this vore/breeding thing they have been about for a few million years now, ever since the evolution of angiosperms really, and they largely seem quite well pleased

        • wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          They can live a better life than in the wild. Not all of them do, but many do. It depends on how efficient and careful the company is, and some companies can be quite careless in their shipping and handling, as @Dirt_Owl said.

          I'm not sure what the survival-to-adulthood rate is in the wild but I would guess that it is not very high.

          I am posting this on break at my bug farming job