I really don't get the hostility towards insect protein.
If someone wants to create that product and sell it on an open market, what's the problem?
If you don't like it, don't buy it.
If it is cheaper than the other alternatives, I can see massive benefits in the third world.
@h4890 @TylerAbeoJordan
Because you had to refer to it as an open market, not a free market. How unfathomable is banning more meats when we have precedent for banning horse meat for human consumption?
Enjoy the privilege of eating non-bug based diet while you can while slowly these stables of the american diet become artificially priced and restricted from lower income families.
Another issue I have with it - and I don't mind if people want to eat it, but as a personal issue, is that it's being used in processed foods. And I just won't eat processed stuff - I like to cook with raw/whole ingredients. I can't imagine ever doing so with bugz.
Ahh, interesting! I can definitely see how the insectindustry would lobby the EU to get the insect protein "rebranded" as E1256, so that products based on it don't have to refer to insects but instead to E1256. ;)
@apopheniac @TylerAbeoJordan
My point still stands, and in your case, banning free markets is the problem, and in another case, not being honest with the ingrediets, and of course both are bad. But that still does not take away from the fact that insect protein is a viable source of nutrients at a supposedly good price.