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I could see cockroaches as a food source for farm animals maybe, but I have my doubts about roaches ever making the mainstream western diet. If it costs less, a
by jpmoyn 8y ago
I could see cockroaches as a food source for farm animals maybe, but I have my doubts about roaches ever making the mainstream western diet. If it costs less, and is more environmentally friendl, to produce a pound of roaches than it does a pound of corn, why not turn it into pig food?
- killjoywashere 8y agoThe cycle in the article is kitchen waste => cockroach => cockroach flour as chicken feed => chicken => kitchen Seems reasonable. Or maybe I should just go vegan at this point...
- zmjohnson42 8y agoWell seems like you are already vegan seeing as you stock your kitchen full of chicken feed.
- maxk42 8y agoIt's made of cockroaches.
- lbenes 8y agoWe supplement our dogs raw diet with grasshopper flour.[1] I chose that along with eggs as a more humane source of protein. I've eaten bugs in Thailand(they were actually quite tasty), but I haven't had the urge to try this flour yet. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Cricket-powder-made-100-22/dp/B00OMCTODQ https://www.amazon.com/Cricket-powder-made-100-22/dp/B00OMCT...
- RmDen 8y agoShrimp and roaches are pretty much the same thing..one lives in the ocean, the other on land...
- devy 8y agoHonest question: how so?
- abawany 8y agoI am fairly sure I am not alone in a severe and visceral aversion to roaches whereas shrimp excite no such sentiment. I have always wondered why that is - it seems so irrational. Also, roaches have some capabilities that make them somewhat special [1] - let's hope the super-size trend that applies to other farmed products does not make its way to this creature. [1] http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141021-the-fastest-insect-in-the-world http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141021-the-fastest-insect-i...
- Johnny555 8y agoFew people turn on the kitchen light and see dozens of shrimp scurry away under the kitchen cabinets. If I thought shrimp was crawling all of my food, I might be more adverse to shrimp. Instead, I've only seen shrimp as food. Plus many people have never seen live or even raw shrimp - their only exposure is the tasty red shrimp body on their plate (or freezer bag), not the pale grey translucent body with many legs, big eyes and antenna. They are certainly a lot less appetizing in their natural state.
- mawburn 8y agoI've heard people refer to diving for lobsters in South Florida as diving for "bugs". It kind of makes you think of them differently.
- taigeair 8y agoInteresting fact - "Lobster was also commonly served in prisons, much to the displeasure of inmates. American lobster was initially deemed worthy only of being used as fertilizer or fish bait, and until well into the 20th century, it was not viewed as more than a low-priced canned staple food." Perception is key. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster
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- uhtred 8y agoOr skip the pigs and the roaches and everyone eat lentils and beans and grains and all those other delicious plants. Save the planet and our health (not to mention billions of animals), yeehaw!
- imustbeevil 8y agoAs happy as I am to save the planet, the alternative to "we breed 90% of the animals on earth for food" is not "now all those animals are free".
- uhtred 8y agoI'm not sure what your point is? I'm going to assume you meant that I thought we could literally set all the current livestock in the world free, which is not what I meant. Rather, we would just stop breeding them in the first place as the demand would go down.