Yes.
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Yes.
In fact I'll go further and suggest that in the not so distant future everyone is going to happily eat insects.
I don't know much about this but my understanding is that insects are a very economical source of protein, which can be used to produce synthetic meat.
Right now my favorite sausages are probably made from mostly pig offal. You know, tongue tail and bum hole. If at some point in the future the label starts to list synthetic meat amongst the ingredients, I don't think I'll even notice.
I guess my point is, it's just a marketing thing. We already eat loads of things we might think are objectively gross (curdled mammalian excretions for example), but we don't think about it because it's just what people eat. On the spectrum of things people eat insects aren't really anywhere near the gross end.
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Yes.
In fact I'll go further and suggest that in the not so distant future everyone is going to happily eat insects.
I don't know much about this but my understanding is that insects are a very economical source of protein, which can be used to produce synthetic meat.
Right now my favorite sausages are probably made from mostly pig offal. You know, tongue tail and bum hole. If at some point in the future the label starts to list synthetic meat amongst the ingredients, I don't think I'll even notice.
I guess my point is, it's just a marketing thing. We already eat loads of things we might think are objectively gross (curdled mammalian excretions for example), but we don't think about it because it's just what people eat. On the spectrum of things people eat insects aren't really anywhere near the gross end.
In fact I’ll go further and suggest that in the not so distant future everyone is going to happily eat insects.
I think your correct. The world is running out of top soil - the current industrial farming system isn't sustainable. So a future where plants are super rare and expensive seems likely to me.
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In fact I’ll go further and suggest that in the not so distant future everyone is going to happily eat insects.
I think your correct. The world is running out of top soil - the current industrial farming system isn't sustainable. So a future where plants are super rare and expensive seems likely to me.
It's not only top soil that we're running out of. To farm you really need consistent weather patterns and we just don't seem to have that any more.
There's been a drought in the state/ province of South Australia for the last several years. Graziers are buying feed for their livestock from another state / province New South Wales. Last week there was a once-in-500-year flood in NSW, so loads of livestock there died and there certainly isn't any more feed for sale.
I guess "top soil" is one way to describe the problem but there's a variety of problems really.