To rein in emissions, the E.U. is looking to insects as an alternate source of protein for livestock and people and is easing regulations and subsidizing makers of insect-derived food. In a photo essay, Luigi Avantaggiato explores the emerging bug food industry in northern Italy.
There’s nothing wrong with eating bugs; its normal in certain parts of the world and its a good source of protein.
Problem: farming animals is inefficienct, cruel, expensive, and destroying the earth which gives us life life
Solution 1: learn to cook dhal
eww no veggies, I am 12 and refuse to eat them
solution 2: convince the arrogant fussy and cruel hedonist that rejected 1 to eat crickets?
solution 3: keep all of the horror of farming but make it marginally more efficient?
Mmm yay, pigs screaming in terror while they die in gas chambers makes me hungries.
It doesn’t have to be cruel. I grew up on a sustainable farm. I agree with you however, it’s the culture that has decided meat or nothing and that’s why it’s cruel.
If the ways we killed non humans were not cruel then we would use them on our loved ones at end of life for euthanasia etc.
we don’t because they’re cruel.
Bugs are delicious. I don’t understand why some people think that eating bugs is a bad thing.
Bugs probably feel pain given they modify their behaviour after injuries and seek to avoid them.