Bill Gates Wants to Feed You Bug Paste and Lab Meat

I don’t see the issue.

1, Most food has a “bug allowance” (the amount of bug bits per 100g).

2, This is potentially a cheap and easier to make alternative to, say, cows and pigs and could potentially help put an end to world hunger.

3, The bugs are highly nutritious.

4, People already eat bugs, insects and creepy crawlies. Chocolate covered bugs, snails and whatever else.

The only “outrage” is “eeeeeeeeeeeew! Bugs!”

originally posted by: TerryDon79
I don’t see the issue.

1, Most food has a “bug allowance” (the amount of bug bits per 100g).

2, This is potentially a cheap and easier to make alternative to, say, cows and pigs and could potentially help put an end to world hunger.

3, The bugs are highly nutritious.

4, People already eat bugs, insects and creepy crawlies. Chocolate covered bugs, snails and whatever else.

The only “outrage” is “eeeeeeeeeeeew! Bugs!”

So you'll feed your kids maggot sausage and lab meat then? Or do you bleeding hearts just reserve that for the most needy?

I don't care what you eat, or Bill Gates eats either, so long as he leaves the existing food chain alone.

originally posted by: TerryDon79
I don’t see the issue.

1, Most food has a “bug allowance” (the amount of bug bits per 100g).

A limited amount of tiny bugs that were left on the food item by mistake as opposed to being a bug paste made of bugs only.

2, This is potentially a cheap and easier to make alternative to, say, cows and pigs and could potentially help put an end to world hunger.

Nah.

3, The bugs are highly nutritious.

Go eat them.

4, People already eat bugs, insects and creepy crawlies. Chocolate covered bugs, snails and whatever else.

Yeah, in such developed places too.

The only “outrage” is “eeeeeeeeeeeew! Bugs!”

Then by all means keep eating bugs.

a reply to: zosimov

So you'll feed your kids maggot sausage and lab meat then?

Most likely not. But we’re not starving and have a choice of what to eat.

Or do you bleeding hearts just reserve that for the most needy?

Obviously. If they have a need to stay alive, eating something highly nutritious is a good way to do that.

a reply to: 1337Kph

A limited amount of tiny bugs that were left on the food item by mistake as opposed to being a bug paste made of bugs only.

Still eating bugs.

Go eat them.

I don’t need to. Just like I choose not to eat fish.

See? It’s all about the “eeeeeeeew!” with you softies.

originally posted by: TerryDon79
Still eating bugs.

You're also eating poop everytime you smell a fart with that poor logic.

I don’t need to. Just like I choose not to eat fish.

You don't need to try and explain how bug paste is good for you either, but here you are.

See?

Nah.

It’s all about the “eeeeeeeew!” with you softies.

Not eating bugs is a softie. Ok lmfao. What type of beetle do all of your tough role models recommend?

a reply to: 1337Kph

So just let them die because “eeeeeeeeeeew! Bugs!”?

Softies, the lot of you.

Imagine being so deluded you'd believe a bug paste is going to solve the world's hunger problems.

a reply to: 1337Kph

Imagine being such a softie that your only reply is “eeeeeeeew! Bugs!”

That’s the only argument against this.

As noted a few times previously in this thread, there is food in abundance on this planet. Earth is teeming with nutrient-laden fruits, herbs, vegetables, and meat. Bugs could certainly be a part of that food supply--but disgusting processed bug paste and lab meat belong in the bin. Unprocessed and renewable food sources abound.
We've (humanity) has even come up with sustainable ways to grow year round--look to Iceland for a model of geothermal and hydropowered growing. Here's a pic of a geothermal greenhouse I visited while there:


The second article I linked even mentioned the food we currently waste would feed 2 billion people.

But one of the simplest ways to ‘fix’ the food system, is simply to reduce post-harvest loss and consumer waste. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation 1.3 billion tonnes per year of all food produced is lost or wasted, which could feed two billion.

I need to do better. Maybe this message can get me off my keyboard and into the realm I really want to be--sharing the excess of my abundance.

Bill Gates would never--ever--feed his kids or grandkids bug paste. I'd wager that.

a reply to: zosimov

but disgusting processed bug paste

See? “Eeeeeeeeeeew! Bugs!”

So soft. Much ew.

a reply to: TerryDon79

And yet you admit you wouldn't feed that to your kids.

Which is it, delicious or ewww?

a reply to: zosimov

And yet you admit you wouldn't feed that to your kids.

Because I have a choice of foods and we’re not starving.

If we were starving? Hell yeah we’d eat bugs.

Which is it, delicious or ewww?

It’s not about that. It’s about not starving and dying.

If Bill Gates tried to sell us his sewage water (after all, there are communities w/o any form of water source), some people might buy it.

originally posted by: zosimov
If Bill Gates tried to sell us his sewage water (after all, there are communities w/o any form of water source), some people might buy it.

Here’s something funny. YOU ALREADY DO!

Where do you think tap water comes from?

a reply to: TerryDon79

Don't drink tap!

But yeah unfiltered sewage let's say.

a reply to: zosimov

Don't drink tap!

Didn’t say you did. You still PAY for it. Heard of this thing called taxes?

But yeah unfiltered sewage let's say.

Some people do drink that and worse.

The issue is, you’re not starving. You’re not in a situation of no real food. You can go buy what you want.

But let the starving die because “eeeeeeeeeew! Bugs!”

a reply to: TerryDon79

Let the starving eat maggot paste when Bill Gates with his resources could set up renewable whole food sources works in your world view. But you wouldn't give that to people you love.

Disgusting.

a reply to: zosimov

“Eeeeeeew! Bugs!”

Amirite?

Lots of off topic discussion here, but the biggest problem with the arguments presented is the false dilemma:

Either the starving eat maggot paste OR they eat nothing.

Not only a fallacy, (and thus wrong) but heartless as well