3 ms·
I just posted a podcast episode, 222: Why Eat Insects http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/rants-raves-and-monologues-volume-7 http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/rants-ra
by spodek 7y ago
I just posted a podcast episode, 222: Why Eat Insects http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/rants-raves-and-monologues-volume-7 http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/rants-raves-and-monologues-vo..., on why we're seeing all these clever new ways to create food: bugs, vertical farming, fake meat, in-vitro meat, etc.
Why didn't we think of them before?
Not because now we're more clever. Because we had better options. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Few meat eaters choose crickets over steaks and hamburgers, but we've squandered what was once plenty. We've become more efficient, but we've lost abundance.
With a lower population we could keep abundance.
- ineedasername 7y agoIn terms of global hunger, the world has never had it as good as it is now. [0] Yes, people still starve, so "good" is highly relative, but even with rates on a plateua, we're significantly better off when compared to prior generations. What you're seeing isn't lack of choices, it's the cross section of market forces and a growing cultural change that wants what they consider to be ethical, sustainable food. [0] https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment
- thrower123 7y agoThere's a lot of money chasing meat-alternative startups. And that means a lot of PR and PR dollars. It's hard for me to imagine we are scraping the bottom of the barrel when pork chops are 99 cents a pound in the grocery store.
- jdc 7y agoYeah, probably not. But then there is a lot of government intervention in American farming.
- nitwit005 7y agoThe last hundred years have been a constant churn of new ideas and technology in agriculture, and food in general. Seeing a bunch of clever ways to make food on the horizon isn't some recent change.