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.
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.