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You don't need to individually butcher insects. You can just dump a whole load of crickets into a deep fryer and eat them like potato chips.

• SwellJoe 11y ago
  That's not a meal, though. It's a somewhat unhealthy snack, comparable to pork rinds, perhaps (more protein and less fat, perhaps, but still unhealthy). A vision of a future that has humans consuming insects on a large scale needs to involve meals made of insects, not snack foods that are much more expensive and only moderately more nutritive than their plant or animal based alternatives. The environmental and economic cost has to be lower than the current alternatives (if not now, during the infancy of the market, then eventually, once mass production has been figured out), or it doesn't make sense to pursue it. It's already an uphill battle to convince people that bugs are food.