Entomophagy, vegetarianism and other energy efficient diets

[Kharille]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowspiracy


If I recall correctly, this cowspiracy or earthlings talks about how animal farming causes emissions way more than the automobile industry.  Earthlings also depicts slaughter and animal treatment, fear and all and you need to be mentally prepared before watching it.  Then again, best way to reduce the human carbon footprint is to eliminate humans....

http://www.subdude-site.com/WebPages_Local/Blog/topics/environment/worldPopGrowth_charts/enviro_worldPopGrowth_charts.htm

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

If I recall correctly, this cowspiracy or earthlings talks about how animal farming causes emissions way more than the automobile industry.

The two are clearly linked. Cows need humans to transport them around. Humans need cows to eat or they would die. There aren't really any two separate "conspiracies" here, it's all just part of one big conspiracy in which our future Cow Overlords set themselves up to appear the innocent victims so we don't suspect they're secretly plotting world domination.

 

[Kharille]

http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Precursor


….If you've never…  finished the Star Control games…..  You'd be missing out….

 

[mdk31]

I've heard that its actually even more efficient if we all switched to vegetarianism.  Might sustain 5x the current global population if everyone was happy to make the switch.  I think India is one of the most densely populated countries in the world with a lot of vegetarianism.

As a human, I am an omnivore. I'll stick with meat-eating. Unless there comes out a plant that tastes like pork.

 

[Moose!]

I've eaten bugs before, both prepared and raw (when I was a kid  ). Also Mezcal.

 

[DanAngleland]

Nah, cricket flour is the whole thing. I imagine it would be similar for most bugs.

That always makes me wonder- surely we are eating the bowels of the insect as well, including its waste products? We don't do that with any other food animal, for health reasons.

 

[Dryvus]

They starve them first. Then they interrogate them. Then they extort them. Then they grind them.

 

[Untitled.]

We do that with some seafood.

 

[Austupaio]

You ever eat shrimp? You know what the dark strip in their lower torso is?

Animals that small have a different way of handling waste, not to mention they have a very different diet, which combined with the miniscule amount of waste there is - there's basically no health implications. AFAIK, anyway, I'm not an expert.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

You ever eat shrimp? You know what the dark strip in their lower torso is?

Whenever I buy prawns that bit gets taken out. Even the tiny little ones get gutted.

 

[Almalexia]

You don't clean your shrimp, Aust? 

 

[Austupaio]

Don't see a point, it's not like restaurants tend to.

 

[Almalexia]

Huh, funky, I can't ever recall the shrimp I get at restaurants arouns here /not/ being cleaned, but idk. I haven't paid the closest attention to be fair.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Don't see a point, it's not like restaurants tend to.

With the larger prawns it leaves a bitter aftertaste. Fish gut in general tastes absolutely putrid. Take this from a guy whose grandma keeps forgetting to gut fish properly.

 

[Areze]

haha aust eats fish poop

 

[Swissky]

You ever eat shrimp? You know what the dark strip in their lower torso is?

tfw you remember how drunk you've been during the crayfish season in August 

 

[Kharille]

Friend of mine said he would happily eat rat if he knew it was farmed and corn fed….  At least that’s what you can put on the label...

 

[Dryvus]

 

[Austupaio]

Where are you guys going that every shrimp in your pasta is tailed, sliced across the back and the torso meticulously cleaned out?

 

[Almalexia]

I mean even the Cambodian in-laws clean their shrimp, and they eat damn near everything that moves and a lot that doesn't. I'm a little concerned about these restaurants you're going to tbh, but maybe its a regional thing.