Future of food: what's on the menu in 2050
Future of food: what's on the menu in 2050
From insects to cultured meat, nothing is off the table when it comes to feeding the world’s population which is estimated to be 10 billion people in 30 years’ time.
Should insect protein become the dietary norm of the future, how will our descendants feel about our reactions to the first insect aisle in the local supermarket? Could we perhaps be the last generation to be seen as true meat eaters?
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No. Eating insects, spiders etc is utterly disgusting.
Is it really though, or is it just what you're used to? Prawns are basically sea woodlice and everyone loves them.
Yes its still disgusting. In reality, eating prawns and most shellfish in general is disgusting. If that thing lived on land we would not eat it. But it doesn't and we're used to it and it tastes really good, so we do it anyway.
I honestly can’t stomach the idea of eating insects, but I do love prawns! Looks like the two halves of my brain are sleeping in separate beds tonight.
I can’t eat them due to allergies. I’ve tried lobster and thought it was nothing to write home about. Luckily didn’t really react.
But you don't find them utterly disguising?
Clearly evolution has distinguished ’insects’ from ‘Aquatic Crustaceans’.
Spiders aren't insects. I think they all come under "arthropods".
It's actually covered in the article:
"Biologically, insects are very similar to shrimps, which is a crustacean species and both crustaceans and insects are arthropods,” says Prof. le Coutre.
“Arthropods are basically lifeforms either on land or water that are surrounded by a chitin exoskeleton. Most people won’t cringe at the sight of a shrimp on their plate, but many might run if there was an insect crawling on the kitchen counter.
Yes I know. I was awkwardly separating them in my sentence knowing that some cultures (mistakenly) eat insects, and some (also mistakenly) eat spiders.
That is no excuse for either.
Maybe calling them Land Crustaceans might help sell them a bit more? How about shellveal or ground kippers?
Maybe “yummy cockroaches”?
I haven’t seen this movie sorry.
Pretty sure that’s from Snowpiercer
Mmmm McLocusts