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Vegetables are a better source of protein and healthy fats, and they're more efficient. Insects are just animals that inefficiently convert calories into animal
by nawitus 13y ago
Vegetables are a better source of protein and healthy fats, and they're more efficient. Insects are just animals that inefficiently convert calories into animal protein. On top of that it's not ethical to eat animals.
- gknoy 13y agoCan you elaborate on why it's not ethical to eat insects?
- nawitus 13y agoInsects can feel pain and it's unethical to kill animals unnecessarily.
- ams6110 13y agoI find eating to be necessary. YMMV.
- jtreminio 13y agoI wonder if it would be possible to only eat as much of the animal as you will consume in one sitting, leaving the animal alive and just removing extremities piecemeal for consumption.
- SeanDav 13y agoThere are a lot of unethical spiders out there....
- kiba 13y agoHumans raise meats for no other reason that they're tastier than vegetables. If we're going to eat meat, we might as well choose the most efficient source of meat, such as insects, at least until meat-in-a-vat becomes reality.
- pampa 13y agoCould I have a grass fed mealworm rib-eye steak please? :)
- VladRussian2 13y ago>Vegetables are a better source of protein and healthy fats, and they're more efficient not necessarily, otherwise there wouldn't be carnivores/predators. And vegetables may be not very well available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4H8JHoSrSs 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.
- ceejayoz 13y ago> On top of that it's not ethical to eat animals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipse_dixit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipse_dixit
- GigabyteCoin 13y agoHave you ever stopped to wonder just how many insects are wiped out when a farmer protects (re: pesticides) and/or harvests his crop of vegetables? 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?
- sitkack 13y agoThe best pesticide is an army of biological robots evolved to hunt down insects. Aka, the Chicken!
- d2vid 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy#Environmental_benefits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy#Environmental_benef... 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.
- hcarvalhoalves 13y ago> Insects are just animals that inefficiently convert calories into animal protein. Non-sense. Insects, like other animals, are calories condensers that the human body can actually absorb. We don't have a rumen.