How do you even answer this? Yes, in the absolutely insane authoritarian hell scape where the consumption of all meat has been made illegal and for real for real illegal, not just like turn a blind eye to it, yes, sure, I’d try bugs. But that’s such a fucking insane timeline I don’t think it’s worth discussing.
“If you had to live underwater with scuba gear instead of in a home, would you try swimming laps for exercise?”
“If an EMP wiped out all light sources, would you consider taking up astronomy?”
No, I’d hunt deer on the reservation. Fuck you very much for thinking tribal living is unsustainable.
My house is already filled with roaches so I think I’m all set. 😋
/s (I hate my life, somebody please commit arson on my house so I can claim insurance)
I’d just go and eat people. If it’s illegal anyway, you might as well.
Shellfish are bugs of the ocean. Pass us another lobster please.
I’ma keep it real with you homie…
The whole projected future of living in pods and eating bugs is a propaganda scare point from people who want to manipulate you for profit.
Any media that tries to present it as a real possibility should be held at arms length.
In the documentary blade runner 2049 they farm bugs for protein
I’d rather switch to the beans.
I’m thinking of house cockroaches.
I dunno. If there were no meat at all - over time I’d probably think about it. Turned into some insect flour, then compressed into something between meat and mushrooms, then roasted.
But right now no.
i eat shrimps and shrimps is bugs
Insect farming is still worse in terms of Greenhouse gases than just eating the plants directly. While it is more efficient than traditional farming it also isn’t necessary for a healthy diet. I haven’t found a reliable study that examines how many tons of greenhouse gases could be saved by switching to an insect diet but I think it’s best to just directly switch to a plant based diet. Just as a remain reminder: 14 % of global greenhouse gases are produced by meat production according to a UN study.
Raw, no. Processed, sure.
I went to a bug farm last week and ate a bug burger. I was not good.
Insects are not meat.
Meat, in the important sense here, is defined as “the muscle tissue of an animal” with the implicit meaning of “food”. An animal, in turn, is anything that’s in the animal kingdom, that is, pretty much anything that isn’t a plant or a fungus. You might think “animal” means “a hairy creature with four legs or a feathered one with two wings and two legs”, but the definition is far broader than that.
Insects have muscle tissue. It is edible. Therefore it is meat.
Insects are more chitin than they are meat. If you can extract the meat from a cricket and fry it up I’ll give it a shot. If it’s just ground up chitin and bug guts with a little bit of muscle fiber thrown in I will pass thank you.
If you eat chicken nuggets I doubt you can complain too much.
Hmm 95% meat + 5% beak and feet compared to 5% meat + 95% chitin and guts. I guess it’s totally the same thing, sorry my bad.
You think nuggets are 95% meat? Long may you remain in blissful ignorance.
Why not? Shrimps and prawns are meat. Lobsters are meat.
Wet bugs meat, dry bugs not meat?
You only eat the inside of the shrimp and lobsters. You throw away the exoskeletons.
Good luck doing that with crickets.
So if you stick the entire lobster into a paste grinder, is it a meat product or not?
Also now I wonder if that would have any nutritional value, lots of calcium?
Sure but why does that make crickets “not meat”?
They are meat the same way a cow is meat, but you don’t eat the cows hide. If you sell cricket meat then it should be just the “meat” of the cricket, otherwise you are just selling cricket not cricket meat, like selling the corpse of a cow is not selling meat it’s selling a dead cow.
Just as you sell lobster, you sell the lobster and then extract the meat later. Just calling the entire lobster meat is also disengenous.
If I buy a whole chicken at the grocery store, I buy it in the meat section. No one would say “you’re buying a whole chicken, therefore you’re not buying meat.”
With lobster you can extract the meat and eat it. You can also boil the empty shell to make a lobster stock as a base for a seafood soup or a pan sauce. Just as with chicken you don’t eat the bones but you can boil them to make stocks for soup or pan sauces. They’re still classified as meat and the products you make from them are considered meat products.
You are being very selective with your choices of examples. Yes you buy a “chicken” at the grocery store but you aren’t buying it with feathers and feet still attached. If you buy crickets at the grocery store I guarantee you it will be the whole carcass.
I don’t understand why you are being so pedantic about this.
EATING AN CRICKET IS NOT THE SAME AS EATING AN ENTIRE CHICKEN OR LOBSTER, IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT THE FUCK YOU CALL MEAT OR NOT. that’s the only thing I’m trying to point out even boiling the carcasses and shells to make soup bases and stock is not the same as eating the feathers and guts.
If you would like to eat an entire chicken with feathers and intestines and all that to prove me wrong then please go ahead
Yes. I’ve had them before; they aren’t that bad.
I’ve said it elsewhere, but if you have a seafood allergy and are considering eating bugs, you may get an allergic reaction from them as well.
