Question of the Day, August 16, 2010
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im a veggie so i ethically kick all yo' asses! hence i am the LAST person to hold the responcibility of eating bugs for a year (well, in the last GROUP of people), because it could only INCREASE my carbon footprint
you know alot of people think the "substitutes" taste like cardboard but thats just because the dont store fat as well as meat, if you butter them before you cook them they get really juicyMisterian said:
In b4 UN bashing.
But yeah I think I could slowly phase them in to make up the majority of my diet, but it's not like I'm gonna suddenly dive into a bowl of cockroaches for breakfast tomorrow.
But yeah I think I could slowly phase them in to make up the majority of my diet, but it's not like I'm gonna suddenly dive into a bowl of cockroaches for breakfast tomorrow.
Too much land that could be better used for forest, or at the very least crops. Humans aren't the only consideration for land use, y'know.porschecm2 said:
Good idea. You know, crazy PETA seems to create at least one new picture a year with some woman sectioned off with lines like a meat cuts chart. They think it will shock people into becoming vegetarians. Little do they know that it just makes people hungry.Jarrid said:
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On to the subject at hand. I'm definitely not going to garner much support, but I am tired of the Global Warming crap. The Earth naturally warms and cools and we can do nothing about it. We may move it along a little faster than the norm, but nowhere near the incredibly fudged reports that come from Global Warming people that worry to much and blow it all out of proportions. I haven't seen one reasonable statistic come from that camp of scientists.
A few years ago, the worriers stated things like we only have a hundred years left to change or do something. With that amount of time I am definitely not worried, especially with how fast the human race has been advancing. I would bet that within at the most 40 years, we will have found a reasonable non-crazy way to reduce emissions; not by eating bugs, not by giving up gas in cars (we have tons of coal reserves that we can turn into synthetic oil, which would cut our gas prices nearly in half. But we have the Global Warming worriers and people that are in bed with OPEC to thank for that not happening like it should. If we did, we would be able to break our dependence on OPEC because we have vast amounts of coal), or any other crazy thing they come up with. Until science creates a solar powered car that can do everything a internal combustion car can (meaning speed and performance), or a car that runs on water that is normal and not gimmicky and said (speed and performance), we will not be stopping the use of gasoline anytime soon. Save your corn for the livestock to eat.
On the whole live stock thing, it is a moot point. Bare with me on this explanation. Yes it is sad that we killed off the buffalo in this country, but they farted too. We replaced those buffalo with herds of cattle that picked up farting where they left off. And think of this, we fart as well, and there are more of us now than there were in the past. But in the past, we didn't take up as much land, and on that land that we hadn't developed were more animals. Millions upon millions of animals that farted as well. We killed them and took up the land that they lived on, and started farting in their place. So I would say that if there is an excess of farting on this planet, then it is a very very small percentage that isn't even enough to be thought about. If you really want to save us from the farts, stop eating beans.
Wow that is one of the funniest explanations I have written. Probably because of the fart to word ratio was pretty high.
Snails, locust, roaches, yumyumyum! Raw, deep fried, cooked, roasted, grilled.... dammit! Now i'm hungry!
Atm 10 kg of food for livestock results in 1 kg of meat, while 10kg of food for bugs, creates 9kg of bugmeat. Thats 800% more food for the same effort!
Its not only more efficient, its better in every way!
Atm 10 kg of food for livestock results in 1 kg of meat, while 10kg of food for bugs, creates 9kg of bugmeat. Thats 800% more food for the same effort!
Its not only more efficient, its better in every way!
I don't care whether they're related or not, they're still pretty damn tasty. I had fried maggots once, they're delicious.
Weellll.... protein is protein, so...I don't have anything against eating insect meat, but since things with >4 legs tend to feak me out, it would have to be fairly heavily processed.
I mean, here's a question, how much extra processing would a mass of insects need compared to the equivalent weight of meat? I have to admit that a lot of my meat ends up being minced, in a spag bol or a chili or similar, so a pack of tarantula mince rather than beef or turkey probably wouldn't make a difference to me.
I mean, here's a question, how much extra processing would a mass of insects need compared to the equivalent weight of meat? I have to admit that a lot of my meat ends up being minced, in a spag bol or a chili or similar, so a pack of tarantula mince rather than beef or turkey probably wouldn't make a difference to me.
