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225 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury 20 Oct 2023 \ parent \ on: US Meat Producer To Focus on Insects and Bugs Instead After Partnering With WEF meta
Those points make sense. However, a thing you didn't mention, that seems important, is the conversion rate. For insects, you're eating the entirety of them; for things like chickens, you're eating their musculature. Even if you assume that their organs are being used someplace, it's still less efficient -- all those bones, feathers, beaks, feet. This isn't a tail-to-snout situation.
However, to your larger point, it seems undeniable that you're right, that most of the sound and fury around insect consumption is virtue signaling. Unlike many, though, I don't have a problem with that If you've ever walked through a place where animals (chickens especially) are being raised using industrial production methods it will either give rise to an astounding level of dissonance, as you bear witness to their suffering, or else prove that you're a psychopath. But then you can walk out and forget about it, and society grinds forward.
I wouldn't mind some virtue on this one. Seems unlikely that the rise of insect consumption will do it, for some of the reasons you say. But I'd take any help, honestly.
I'm all for sustainability. I've had those cricket flour cupcakes and they were amazing btw. Chicken bones are mostly all used: for broth, collagen, and ground up for feed. Feet are used broadly in Asian dishes. Feather less so for decor and stuff. I'm with you though on animal suffering via factory farming. Undeniable. It's fair to say insect farming can play a role.
Say Elvis, what attracted you most to bitcoin?
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In the early days it was a tech idea: that there could be money for the internet in the same way there was VOIP on the internet -- money as data and the hacker ethos of building stuff and not asking someone for permission to build stuff. That was exciting.
Later, it became a philosophical issue. Confronting what money was, but actually trying to understand it from all angles, not just swallow the same regurgitated cud; and how it's really mixed into the foundation of all human activity at scale. So its nature has large implications, and you can keep digging and digging.
Why do you ask?
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Because you're a bit different than what I call the Opus Dei bitcoiner I find so often. More open, and you kinda march to the beat of your own drum. More like the pre-covid bitcoiner era.
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That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me in a while, and it means a lot coming from you -- I've thought the same things in respect to your posts. Keep at it, friend, and thanks.
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