The title of this is incendiary, to make the reader emotional about being force fed insects.<p>Everyone eats trace amounts of bugs all the time without giving it a second thought. Bugs get in our food before we buy it, and after we buy it. For every critter we accidentally discover, there are others that go right through our digestive system.<p>I have no issues buying a slab of steak or bacon - part of the product is the abstraction from animal to dinner. I'm probably a vegetarian in denial because the process of turning an animal into dinner stresses me out but I am happy to have a bacon cheeseburger.<p>So it seems fair to me that if we can mask the process of trillions of crickets turning into protein powder for making 2050 meatloaf, that someone like me will have no issue eating that either.<p>I have a feeling my opinion on this will be controversial because talking about food is controversial. I'm not trying to antagonize anyone reading this.
Clickbait title. The article is about alternative protein sources such as crickets or seaweed. The conclusion is a fairer description of the content:<p>"So whether it comes from a cricket or a lab or off the coast of Indonesia, tomorrow's protein alternatives will be a win for both consumers and the environment, though likely neither are as excited about those prospects as the cows."
Please stop scaring me.
In 1975, at 4 billions we were not going to be able to feed 8 billions.
Now we do.
I want to respect the food chain. Let the birds eat the bugs.
Let us eat the birds.
Can I just buy long term soybean commodity contracts which follow the price of beef/pork, then sell some each year? I’d prefer that to eating crickets.
Pompous title. I'll happily do it, but not because you made me. Rather, it sounds quite tasty and nutritious! The 'capacity' concept is a lie. Don't forget to look at the drastically slowing worldwide population growth. I'll continue to kill and eat venison and grow my garden.