@williamrblack @lionel_trolling Insects offer a renewable source of protein that can be easily farmed and harvested. They produce far less methane gas than large bovines and are highly nutritional. They also feed on refuse, filling a critical role in large-form sustainable design.
@williamrblack @lionel_trolling I too am adverse to eating them, but they could be pulverized into granules, so we could make patties out of em . . . 🤷♂️
@williamrblack @lionel_trolling The issue is that there are places on Earth where there are just too many people for the land to support. There are entire countries in Africa that need water imported because they have none. That's been true with regard to food for a long time.
@williamrblack @lionel_trolling Until land that has been made inarable by industrialization and totalitarian agriculture is returned to its natural order, and until we live according to that Nature, we'll be in a sustained food crisis of one sort or another.
@williamrblack @lionel_trolling There's also a moral quandary. There are many enlightened individuals throughout history who have pointed out that killing an animal is equal to murder. Growing up in the Midwest, this is also something I struggle with, and I also think it's immoral to refuse food and hospitality
@williamrblack @lionel_trolling And honestly, those same "enlightened individuals" would have said that killing an insect is also murder, so that right there undercuts my argument, but people who eat only vegetables needs to eat a lot of them, and supplement them with carbs to survive. That's a lot of farming.
@williamrblack @lionel_trolling My generation's job, and the job of every generation that follows will be to clean up after our ancestors, and if that doesn't happen, life on Earth will disappear as we know it. That's certain.
@williamrblack @lionel_trolling @threadreaderapp unroll please. Thank you.
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