Not if insects don't decay quickly or if the microorganisms breaking them down aren't a problem for humans, plus you're not gonna get prion diseases from insects
Fair cop. I guess I was, in a smartass way, trying to say there's no need at all to eat the bugs.
If it's only disease were worried about, then there a whole bunch of mammals we wouldn't be eating. Cows, for instance, give us prion disease. Pigs are a massive vector for disease. The current pandemic was borne from people eating, trading and selling flesh.
Just don't eat what you don't need to I should have wrote.
The "need" bit is an interesting question if we're talking about world populations in particular — to my knowledge as it stands we can't sufficiently feed everyone on a 100% vegan diet (even if distribution and inequality problems were magicked away) but adding insect protein would be viable to ease the transition while reducing the emissions/disease/suffering/etc that comes from meat farming
Yeah, look. I'd love to see some solid research on this. It's something I hear quite often in defence of meat / against vegan diets, but I'm never shown the why or how of it.
I guess it then comes down to the age old 'minimize harm' element of veganism; i.e. I wouldn't watch the bugs because I get plenty of protein in my diet already. If for some reason other people didn't have access to beans, but did to bugs, then sure, I guess.
Not if insects don't decay quickly or if the microorganisms breaking them down aren't a problem for humans, plus you're not gonna get prion diseases from insects
Fair cop. I guess I was, in a smartass way, trying to say there's no need at all to eat the bugs.
If it's only disease were worried about, then there a whole bunch of mammals we wouldn't be eating. Cows, for instance, give us prion disease. Pigs are a massive vector for disease. The current pandemic was borne from people eating, trading and selling flesh.
Just don't eat what you don't need to I should have wrote.
The "need" bit is an interesting question if we're talking about world populations in particular — to my knowledge as it stands we can't sufficiently feed everyone on a 100% vegan diet (even if distribution and inequality problems were magicked away) but adding insect protein would be viable to ease the transition while reducing the emissions/disease/suffering/etc that comes from meat farming
Yeah, look. I'd love to see some solid research on this. It's something I hear quite often in defence of meat / against vegan diets, but I'm never shown the why or how of it.
I guess it then comes down to the age old 'minimize harm' element of veganism; i.e. I wouldn't watch the bugs because I get plenty of protein in my diet already. If for some reason other people didn't have access to beans, but did to bugs, then sure, I guess.