#vegetarian #vegan #evolution Originally shared by Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran +Eve Volve: "Meat allowed us to evolve" Really? I think you're mistaken to believe this is a certainty, but what causes you to believe this is so, +Eve Volve ? As I understand it, there have been healthy, thriving vegetarians and vegans for as long as there have been humans. Some were so due to moral or ethical concerns, others due to resource utilization issues, others due to cultural taboos. All other factors being equal, the veg(etari)ans have thrived, and continue to do so. For some more recent historical examples of vegans, we can look at Pythagoras, the "Pythagoreans" (as vegans were called for the following 1300 years), along with a plethora of like-minded contemporaries (e.g. goo.gl/lgDBL ). Buddhists, Jainists, et al., have been doing grand as veg(etari)ans since around the 6th century BCE. Prior to this, there's compelling reason to believe that most people were veg...
Amazing. Surely this could be a hugely useful food source in hunger striken parts of the world?
ReplyDeleteLove this invention.
ReplyDeleteNot sure how this would go with vegans..
ReplyDeleteSean P. O. MacCath-Moran any thoughts?
Well... This idea is failing to solve a problem we don't have -- a problem that we're not having anywhere in the world.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean by this is that these insects create protein the same way that humans, cows, cats, bees, and all other animals do; i.e. they ingest plant proteins (even if secondarily) and convert that in to their body proteins, doing so so at a net-loss of total protein. So eating bugs means one is filtering plant-protein through the bodies of sentient beings -- just like when eating cows, dogs, pigs, dolphins, etc.
You will note that this article (and livinfarms.com website it refers to) very carefully avoids discussions of the inputs to the system. There's a reason for this: once you do the math, it doesn't add up.
Given all that, and given that there's no ethically or logically consistent justification for ending the lives of sentient individuals for the sake of one's personal pleasure (e.g. to eat his or her body), I have a lot of trouble grokking what there is to talk about with this "growing bugs at home" idea -- other than that it's wrong-headed and nonsensical.
Fair enough?