EU Gives Green Light for Two Insect Species to Be used for Human Consumption

[Sparko]

If we eat more bugs, that leaves more steak for the elite.

[Machinist]

If we eat more bugs, that leaves more steak for the elite.

How they gwine eat all that steak?

[Sparko]

How they gwine eat all that steak?

They want to reduce the number of cattle in order to reduce methane production. But if they reduce cattle then that reduces the meat supply. If they want to still be able to eat steaks with a reduced meat supply, they need to get everyone else to eat something else, like bugs. That leaves all the steak for themselves.

[Machinist]

They want to reduce the number of cattle in order to reduce methane production. But if they reduce cattle then that reduces the meat supply. If they want to still be able to eat steaks with a reduced meat supply, they need to get everyone else to eat something else, like bugs. That leaves all the steak for themselves.

Oh! Cow farts. I remember that. I was thinking it had more to do with the amount of deforestation required to farm the cattle.

We need to genetically engineer meat bugs. You know, it's like capitalism...provide a good substitute and if I, the consumer am satisfied, then I wouldn't mind making the transition.

Where do you think are we going genetically?

We are talking about the implications and what the world would look like in this futuristic scenario. I would imagine that before eating bugs become the norm, then we will have made advancements in food science.

[Sparko]

Oh! Cow farts. I remember that. I was thinking it had more to do with the amount of deforestation required to farm the cattle.

We need to genetically engineer meat bugs. You know, it's like capitalism...provide a good substitute and if I, the consumer am satisfied, then I wouldn't mind making the transition.

Where do you think are we going genetically?

We are talking about the implications and what the world would look like in this futuristic scenario. I would imagine that before eating bugs become the norm, then we will have made advancements in food science.

Remember the Impossible Burger?

[rogue06]

Remember the Impossible Burger?

So much weirdness surrounding that.

The company is laying off people but claims sales are way up but they're unable to make a profit

And interestingly they're more expensive than meat. They just cut their prices 15% to try to be more competitive.

[Sparko]

So much weirdness surrounding that.

The company is laying off people but claims sales are way up but they're unable to make a profit

And interestingly they're more expensive than meat. They just cut their prices 15% to try to be more competitive.

And they are as bad or worse for you than eating actual meat.

Also if meat is so bad why do vegetarians spend so much time making plants taste like meat?

[rogue06]

And they are as bad or worse for you than eating actual meat.

Also if meat is so bad why do vegetarians spend so much time making plants taste like meat?

And every other year reintroduce something that they claim now tastes even better.

[Sparko]

And every other year reintroduce something that they claim now tastes even better.

Once it is indistinguishable from meat, then are they even vegetarians? After all actual meat is just processed grass to begin with.

[alaskazimm]

It looks like they've already started using insects. Can you spot the difference?

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[Cow Poke]

I was thinking maybe the article was giving permission for some insects to consume humans.

[rogue06]

I've eaten crickets before. I'm just wondering how many you need to eat to equal a 12 oz. steak or even a quarter pound hamburger

[Diogenes]

I've eaten crickets before. I'm just wondering how many you need to eat to equal a 12 oz. steak or even a quarter pound hamburger

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[Starlight]

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Marxist thought of the day: Perhaps we shouldn't have a ruling 1%? Perhaps if things were more meaningfully democratic and the world wasn't so run-by-the-uber-wealthy, we'd all have more freedom?

Seeing right-wingers attack the WEF is amusing. You're critiquing the results of your own politics.

[seanD]

Marxist thought of the day: Perhaps we shouldn't have a ruling 1%? Perhaps if things were more meaningfully democratic and the world wasn't so run-by-the-uber-wealthy, we'd all have more freedom?

Seeing right-wingers attack the WEF is amusing. You're critiquing the results of your own politics.

How is it our own politics when its progressives like you pushing all the things they endorse?