thats it
I have to take this other organism and grind it up using my exposed bone chips?
Yeah you grind it with those rocks who are inside your body (but sometimes they hurt and break and no - they don't regenerate), then it gets pushed through a tube into an internal vat of acid, there is gets dissolved (with some gasses coming out where you ate and some where it continues its journey). Then it gets transported over up to a few days through internal tubes in which it is hoped your "food" breaks apart so it can be used. Sometimes that gets infected, too.
It’s just a matter of efficiency, since when bugs are being marketed as a food source it’s usually presented as something to give to the backwards third world starving poors. Basically you get more calories/sq meter out of growing vegetables than from feeding and raising chickens. There’s also a more nebulous moral argument about how raising chickens for food makes them a commodity and open to more abuse, etc.
Basically we’re already overproducing food but a lot of that goes to cows or in the trash instead of to people who need food because muh invisible hand.
Well if they have enough space and aren't just bred and produced to be killed and enjoy life "kind of", it sounds better than industry farming. Subsistence will only be possible after this system dies, though.
the only place for bugs in a human food supply chain is as feed for chickens w
So no honey, either.
I’m all for bugs if we can make them not look like bugs.
Bring on the McBuggets.
Also their meat probably needs a name like poultry or beef to abstract from what you’re actually eating.
Just go with secare. It sounds fancy and, like the other ones, has roots with the actual word.
Yeah, I've had grasshopper tacos and ngl they were disgusting. It was like eating only shrimp shells without any of the good parts. If there is a way to process them into something edible I'm down to try it again but it was basically inedible to me.
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As a West coast Swede, we already eat shitloads of shrimps and prawns and shit. I think the only reason we don't eat bugs is that we ain't got any common bugs big enough to comfortably cook.
But then again, we didn't like prawns for a good long while, because every time you found a dead guy in water, there was prawns eating him, so it was seen as barely short of cannibalism to eat them.
Funny thing is, wherever you die in water, every fish down there will also cut a slice off of that good-good corpse-meat, but since fish can swim away, they get less of the blame. Except for eel and mackerel, those tended to get all in your cavities, eating holes and wrihgling into you, so theyd also get branded corpse food.
Fun fact: mushrooms are more closely related to bugs than they are to plants!
Mushrooms move much less, also bugs bite humans much more often than mushrooms.
Mushrooms existed for like 600 million years. In contrast bugs emerged less than 500 million years ago.
there was a boy in elementary school who would eat ants to impress the girls but i never saw him eat a mushroom
FINALLY someone with THE TRUTH.
Growing up in China with Shiitake mushrooms (“fragrant mushrooms” in Chinese ...) was traumatizing. :agony-shrooms:
