The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand | A protein possibility for the "oil we eat:" the in-vitro meat beast!

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fleam on May 9, 2008 - 2:18am

Ah a breath of sanity! If we're that worried about animals and fish, etc., which we'd not have to be if we're get our own population down, and if we don't want to eat nice creatures like chickens and cows and pigs, then we really ought to get over our cultural taboos about eating bugs.

Bugs look cute but they are basically little robots. There's really no soul to a bug, more of a flow-chart. There's not "anyone" there to wrong, in eating a bug. And generally they're tasty, a real treat. As non-Western cultures will attest. And you can raise them at home. They're not generally smelly or messy, and their manure can be used on the garden.

These high-tech "solutions" are BS,

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Kiashu on May 9, 2008 - 6:22am

... WTF?

Or we could just eat less meat. Billions of people eat very little, and manage not to keel over instantly.

I don't think we need eat roaches. But if that's your thing, by all means go for it.

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Big Gav on May 9, 2008 - 6:36pm

Without wanting to encourage our doomer friends above, I feel the need to point out that some people do eat bugs - in Cambodia I saw people snacking away on fried spiders and roaches quite happily.