Maybe have these farms available for very poor countries?
I just don't see the desire to eat crickets and worms.
And forget about a social life or dating once they find out you raise and eat crickets and worms, doesn't matter how good you are at explaining the concept.
Am I missing something?
It's a normal food in many parts of the world.
Apart from that, you're right about it having a big "yuck" factor for most people. At the moment it's going to be brave early adopters, finding out what's nice, and what's got too much exoskeleton. (Chitinous legs stuck in your teeth is off-putting.)
Cereal volume 3 has a nice article about the various types of bugs and where they're eaten. (http://readcereal.com/magazine/)
I might be about to raise and eat insects, but my child definitely will. (Consider that children often eat bugs from the garden, and it's only the reaction from horrified parents that stops them doing it!)
It might seem strange and off-putting to eat bugs but eating lobster, shrimp and crawdads has similar challenges and these have become commonplace - even delicacies - for most.
How long until we have a Squeaky Cricket or Brown Roach right next to Red Lobster?
not necessarily, otherwise there wouldn't be carnivores/predators. And vegetables may be not very well available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4H8JHoSrSs
>Insects are just animals that inefficiently convert calories into animal protein.
somebody converting calories into animal protein saves a carnivore a need to have longer/bigger/heavier gastrointestinal tract than it otherwise has to have. Thus carnivore can have more efficient body for movement (and thinking - apes started to become humans ones they started to scavenge and eat meat about 2 million years ago, though it is not meat eating alone or primarily, the primary trigger was scavenging and later hunting activities that caused our ancestors to pick a stone and stick as a weapon )
Note: personally moving toward vegetarianism (mostly for ethical reasons), not there yet, as of now have completely dropped beef, lamb, pork and am eating more vegetables and fish.
What is the more ethical way for an insect to go? Mass starvation? Mass graves created from pesticide use? Or being grown for human consumption?
Insects are far more efficient than livestock. Also, you can feed them things that humans can't eat (like rice stalks and husks) so they can be an environmental net win.
Non-sense. Insects, like other animals, are calories condensers that the human body can actually absorb. We don't have a rumen.