So your saying that I have to decide that all of a sudden I can't wait to eat crickets because they are more efficient?
That just seems to me like a choice that very few humans are actually going to make.
That just seems to me like a choice that very few humans are actually going to make.
No no, not you. All the poor people. They're the ones who will be fed "efficiently". You and I and most people on HN will retain our privilege to eat what we want.
My comment stands. You would be forced to eat crickets and I wouldn't (be forced to eat them). That's the whole idea with feeding people "efficiently". Piss-poor people who can't get a living wage are already fed the most unhealthy food because it's cheap and easy to mass-produce, whereas those who are well-off can eat whatever we want, whatever we think is healthy and nutritious, or just pleasant to eat. And all this talk of efficiency means is that more cheaply produced, low-quality food can keep being sold to those who need to watch their wallet more than they care to watch their waistline.
Yeah the more I think about it, it's probably just a cultural thing and not a "whole humanity" thing.
As it's been discussed here, in some cultures crickets are sold as a snack on streetcorners and people grow up eating them.
And I think the whole "piss-poor people" thing might just be eating unhealthy garbage because, just maybe, the cheap high-sugar high-carb stuff releases endorphins in most humans, and they are just trying to get a small reprieve in their desperate lives.
I haven't had the courage to try them myself yet.
It seems very HN to take the perspective of an aloof farmer-of-humans rather than that of an actual human.