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Only if the rich do it first. I won't eat bugs, lab grown meat, algae, or any other experimental food until the rich do it first, and do it consistently, not j
by Victerius 4y ago
Only if the rich do it first.
I won't eat bugs, lab grown meat, algae, or any other experimental food until the rich do it first, and do it consistently, not just once as a demonstration.
My logic is simple. If the rich don't embrace an innovation, it tells me that the innovation is either not what it's cracked up to be, that it gives a poorer quality product than the traditional option, or that the rich think the innovation is for suckers or the poor. If that's the case, I'll stick with the traditional option.
- seszett 4y agoI'm probably rich at least on a global scale, and I have always eaten algae because it's part of several regions' cuisine, including my home place in Europe. So go ahead, you can eat algae too, it's not a new experimental kind of food.
- somebody78978 4y agoAlgae isn't an experimental food; plenty of rich people eat sushi, for example.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoIsn't that seaweed? I'm confused.
- seszett 4y ago"Seaweed" is a rather ill-defined term in English that regroups a lot of different algae. Nori is made from red algae, that are included under the term seaweed.
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- pvaldes 4y agoSeaweed is a very confusing term, yes. Should be used for marine weeds [upper plants with flowers], but the term refer to algae that are a different category. Some algae are plants. Other are neither plants, animals or fungi and have their own category.
- goatcode 4y agoIf plenty of people are already doing it, why is the article titled with the question of whether we should start doing it? It's because the article is talking about making it more of a primary source of nutrition. It isn't even the primary ingredient in sushi. So, if the rich (and politicians) start eating it as a primary source of nutrition, then the commenter to whom you were replying might consider it similarly.
- pvaldes 4y agoBecause they are trying to sell the idea to the western countries. But macroalgae culture is a standard business in China and Japan since thousands of years. I had eaten it, the green are good, salty when fresh and a little bland after cooking it, the red are a little bitter with a medicine aftertaste. You should use it sparsely in kitchen. Is more a spice than a main dish. The main problems are that climate change removed 90% of the Laminaria forests here in the last 20 years and that the red algae are harvested and sold for pharma and industry, so aren't really available to harvest to the common people. You need a permit for this. The culture is also complicated here.
- incone123 4y agoI want to agree with you, but some rich people will try (or promote) any fad. I'm thinking of Gwyneth Paltrow.