Insect farming bakes, boils and shreds animals by the trillion. It’s immoral, risky and won’t resolve the climate crisis

  • @Wdavery
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    33 years ago

    Very interesting. I’ve never really put thought into the moral consequences of insects as food. Extremely worthwhile read.

  • @yxziOP
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    33 years ago

    Then again, bugs aren’t technically vegan, not even vegetarian

  • @roastpotatothief
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    33 years ago

    But it will be very profitable. Irresistibly profitable.

    Soon enough, we will all find ourselves eating food made with insect protein.

    The only way to stop it is urgent political change.

    • @yxziOP
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      33 years ago

      tbh I don’t think it’ll ever be more than a niche thing (in countries where most people are repulsed by eating insects, that is). but just in case, better be safe than sorry & stop the movement before it can gain momentum. we still need better alternatives to meat-based diets, so guess we should keep looking

      • @roastpotatothief
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        13 years ago

        I’m thinking more, that it will creep into foods without us knowing. Like today palm oil is somehow in everything which used to be made with butter. They might start replacing palm oil with insect oil. Just change the recipe slightly.

        A good solution (though also not strictly vegan) is to feed food waste to insects, and feed the insects to chickens, and feed chickens to people. Everyone is “espressing their natural behaviours” (an agreed rule which defines ethical treatment) and it can be done by individuals on a small scale. You could do it (humanely) in a medium sized garden, with your neighbours as suppliers and customers.

        Insects taste awful. You need a lot of flavouring. You’ll never convince people to eat insects who can afford meat.

  • @AgreeableLandscape
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    3 years ago

    We have a Buddhist family friend in China, and she said that from the perspective of the Buddhist teaching to not kill, eating krill (a very common umami boosting ingredient in Chinese food, they’re tiny shrimp only about a centimeter long and are sold dried and salted) is the worst type of eating meat because it kills the most animals per meal (hundreds of krill as opposed to a single pig or cow, etc). I’d imagine she’d think the same for insect burgers and stuff like that.

    I know that veganism and the religion of Buddhism aren’t the same thing, but I think this applies to both.