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crawling-alreadygirl t1_iqyk1a8 wrote
Lots of people already do eat bugs. It's a pretty time and place specific taboo.
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crawling-alreadygirl t1_iqzsbfl wrote
Most, historically, and a sizable minority currently:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/eating-insects-0016491
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crawling-alreadygirl t1_ir0hjwj wrote
>Nowhere in that article does it say who is eating insects currently and what amount of insects make up their current diet.
>Nowadays, 2 billion people and 3000 ethnic groups still eat the 2,100 edible insects of the globe, yet in the Western world it remains a taboo topic
>If insects are so enjoyable to eat why are certain groups making such a massive effort to convince everyone they are great?
Because insects are nutritious and sustainable, even though they're currently taboo in the west.
>No one is paying celebrities millions to convince people that steak is good.
You sure?
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crawling-alreadygirl t1_ir0y873 wrote
>You think Asians are all living in bamboo huts in the middle of the jungle eating insects?
No
>These people eat a wide variety of dishes, stir fried meats, meats and noodles and rice, barbecue fish, pork, chicken, duck.
Yes, and also a variety of insects. There's nothing wrong with that.
>Yes there are Asian countries that eat insects but they do not make up the bulk of their diet
I never said they did. Humans are omnivores.
>No one is serving a big pile of insects on the dinner table as a main meal.
Great job defeating that strawman?
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crawling-alreadygirl t1_ir13sq9 wrote
>People like you think we should be putting insects on our sandwiches or making insect lasagna or some shit like that.
Dude, I never said anything like that--just that insects are nutritious, and should be a food source. I don't know where you're getting sammies and lasagna from.
>Your head is full of delusional insect propaganda.
This is a genuinely hilarious line. No notes 😂
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ConfusedObserver0 t1_iqyk746 wrote
You’ll he slurping the cricket protein smoothie like the rest of us. People like chicken in nugget for to not resemble the animals it once was in the same way. It’ll just take the trend to say it’s hip from a younger gen to get used to it. As with Anthony of the sort, give it time.
Getting that meat texture done is going to be hard for a very long times. And you have put all the tasty fat back in it too that we’d prefer to get out of it.
CPHfuturesstudies OP t1_iqvn8pm wrote
Winston Churchill envisioned back in 1931 that in 50 years’ time, humans would “escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium”.
Fast forward to 2021, where the industry of lab-grown meat is rapidly growing. Funding soared last year, with investments growing sixfold and dozens of new companies entering the race to bring the first lab-grown meat products to market.
Some researchers speculate that, depending on the efficiency of the production process, the rise of the cultured meat industry could actually have a more negative impact on climate change than traditional beef production.
Will lab-grown meat be an animal friendly and sustainable future food?
This Article was first published in FARSIGHT - Futures Reviewed. A publication from Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
TheDeadlySquid t1_iqvwefc wrote
Who will be the first person to grow a steak from their own cells and eat it?
leaky_wand t1_iqwxmip wrote
And who will be the first person to grab someone else’s cells and eat that steak?
CthuluTheGrand t1_iqxlip3 wrote
Next thing you know we will awaken a chaos god...
Lazy_Jellyfish7676 t1_iqw39ip wrote
That’s messed up
sunsparkda t1_iqwad0g wrote
Humans are messed up, my friend.
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FuturologyBot t1_iqvs1hf wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/CPHfuturesstudies:
Winston Churchill envisioned back in 1931 that in 50 years’ time, humans would “escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium”.
Fast forward to 2021, where the industry of lab-grown meat is rapidly growing. Funding soared last year, with investments growing sixfold and dozens of new companies entering the race to bring the first lab-grown meat products to market.
Some researchers speculate that, depending on the efficiency of the production process, the rise of the cultured meat industry could actually have a more negative impact on climate change than traditional beef production.
Will lab-grown meat be an animal friendly and sustainable future food?
This Article was first published in FARSIGHT - Futures Reviewed. A publication from Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/xuiz9g/will_labgrown_meat_be_an_animal_friendly_and/iqvn8pm/
SlingOfDavid t1_iqw1iqo wrote
Am I the only one that won't be eating lab grown meat?
_Hellrazor_ t1_iqwajd6 wrote
What’s some of your reasoning behind that?
SlingOfDavid t1_iqwhvny wrote
I support local farmers. I like that I'm able to go see the conditions that the animal was raised in. I don't trust that there won't be some unintended consequences, whether it's with the meat itself, or socially. I don't like the idea of relying on what will more than likely be a giant conglomerate controlling the supply(it's already bad enough with real meat). It's putting more and more control in fewer and fewer hands. Not to mention the fact that they will start making further modifications based on some sort of ideology/"social good". They modified mosquitos to deliver vaccines. I'd go hunting before I'd eat something grown in a lab.
crawling-alreadygirl t1_iqyk8l6 wrote
What social consequences could arise from lab grown meat?
SlingOfDavid t1_iqz0il6 wrote
Monsanto engineered crops that don't produce seeds so that farmers would have to continue buying from them. I already mentioned the mosquitos that deliver vaccines (which is unethical). Undercutting ranchers so that it's impossible for them to turn a profit, which can have broader economic impacts on certain communities. Creating a proprietary(black box) process for growing this meat that may end up being carcinogenic/dangerous. A concentration of the meat production that give faceless corporations more leverage over the general population. Producing meat with hormone ratios that are different(either knowingly or inadvertently) from what humans have grown accustomed to, causing unexpected health issues. It'll require legislation that bureaucrats will for sure get wrong causing even more issues, or worse, some ideologue will engineer based on their beliefs. Imagine someone deciding we need to decrease the amount of testosterone in red meat, or add estrogen to chickens, or put dopamine in pork, or some other crazy shit. I'm not saying it should be illegal, but I won't support it. I won't buy it, and I won't eat at restaurants that serve it.
Plus, something about it just seems wrong.
crawling-alreadygirl t1_iqz63zn wrote
Eh, nobody needs meat in the first place, so I wouldn't be too concerned, although I doubt hormone-based social engineering is much of a threat, especially compared with the environmental devastation of animal agriculture. Cheers.
SlingOfDavid t1_iqz6sf7 wrote
It's only devastating when it's a giant multinational. Local ranchers can raise animals in a very green fashion that is actually beneficial to the ecology. And, people(along with most other animals) have been eating meat literally forever. Before we dragged ourselves out of the oceans with flippers, we were eating meat. Yes, fish is meat.
SnailASMR t1_iqwan5z wrote
Out of curiosity and wanting to understand, why wouldn’t you?
sunsparkda t1_iqwalje wrote
I'm sure that there will be people like you who are holdouts. Just not many when a cultured steak is twice or more the price of an animal grown one.
Illustrious-Soup4080 t1_iqxkeyo wrote
Who knows it might , but my gun,passion for hunting and thirst for animal meat and blood will counter act the progression anyways
crawling-alreadygirl t1_iqyknv8 wrote
So, given the choice of two identical products, you'd prefer the one that caused suffering to a sentient being? I get loving meat to munch to go vegetarian, but wouldn't you want 100% cruelty free meat if you could get it?
Edit: I meant "much," not "munch," but I'm enjoying the pun too much to change it
Illustrious-Soup4080 t1_iqynpwq wrote
Wild meat is so tasty , mmm deer sausages and smokies
LocalGilt t1_iqvqzqx wrote
See I can get behind this. When they figure out a way to optimize the production, make it cost the same, have the same nutritional profile, and taste the same, I'd be down to switch over.
You'll have more success with this than trying to get people to eat bugs, I'll tell you that much.