Starfield’s food of the future… bugs!

[Lowbei]

Bill Gates says we will all be eating bugs soon. The spiced meal worms give 4hp and are some of the best food ingame.

Are you looking forward to our future bug breakfasts?

[NoctiluxArcana]

That is not future food.

It already exists now.

[Liquid Inc]

No, because it's a false economy... Bugs won't replace meat like Pork or Chicken, A) because it's disgusting. Im not eating bugs..., and B) it's expensive to actually grow the amount you'd need to.

You'd have to eat hundreds of bugs to get a usable amount of energy from them, and growing literally millions of bugs for this is probably more expensive than rearing a bunch of cows, pigs or chickens...

Cows and Chickens also have other uses, like Milk and Eggs. Pigs are required for Gelatine etc.. so we'd still require those animals, whereas bugs will be used for food only...

[Lowbei]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

No, because it's a false economy... Bugs won't replace meat like Pork or Chicken, A) because it's disgusting. Im not eating bugs..., and B) it's expensive to actually grow the amount you'd need to.

You'd have to eat hundreds of bugs to get a usable amount of energy from them, and growing literally millions of bugs for this is probably more expensive than rearing a bunch of cows, pigs or chickens...

Cows and Chickens also have other uses, like Milk and Eggs. Pigs are required for Gelatine etc.. so we'd still require those animals, whereas bugs will be used for food only...

No, its been proven that they can more easily produce more mealworms per pound than food grown. This was discussed in detail at the World Economic Forum by the worlds richest people.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/7/bill-gates-let-them-eat-bugs/

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2012/05/opp1044748 heres his company, All Things Bugs LLC, which is the result of him buying all that farmland. Hes not growing vegetables, hes growing bugs, and youre gonna love them.

[Groogo]

Many insects include citirne which only fowl's digestive systems can digest, it is like poison to mammals. Microsoft does not have your best interest in mind, Starfield is more then a game. *shrug*

[ChrisG😎]

Originally posted by Capybara:

That is not future food.

It already exists now.

It will be future for me. Forever!

[Sparhawk122]

Woke themes.

[Drahknon]

This is a thing for many futurists, and it finds its way into sci-fi all the time. I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 the other day and noticed the locust protein foods.

It isn't far-fetched at all. Many people eat them today. Heck, you and most people you know have been eating them for quite some time if you've had food with "natural red dye" in it.

[NoctiluxArcana]

Originally posted by Drahknon:

This is a thing for many futurists, and it finds its way into sci-fi all the time. I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 the other day and noticed the locust protein foods.

It isn't far-fetched at all. Many people eat them today. Heck, you and most people you know have been eating them for quite some time if you've had food with "natural red dye" in it.

Watch many people become vegans when you tell them that natural red dye comes from a bug.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by Lowbei:

This was discussed in detail at the World Economic Forum by the worlds richest people.

Originally posted by Lowbei:

by the worlds richest people.

You really think they have your best interests at heart?

And, what's the real costs, and not what they're saying to push this?

The use Palm Oil as a cheaper alternative to butter, yet it's known to cause issues, which is costing countries more in the long run to fix the issues Palm Oil causes (and it's not just human health here)

Originally posted by Capybara:

Watch many people become vegans when you tell them that natural red dye comes from a bug.

A lot of things have things in them you wouldn't want to know...

Ever seen how they make crab sticks?

[kdodds]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

No, because it's a false economy... Bugs won't replace meat like Pork or Chicken, A) because it's disgusting. Im not eating bugs..., and B) it's expensive to actually grow the amount you'd need to.

You'd have to eat hundreds of bugs to get a usable amount of energy from them, and growing literally millions of bugs for this is probably more expensive than rearing a bunch of cows, pigs or chickens...

Cows and Chickens also have other uses, like Milk and Eggs. Pigs are required for Gelatine etc.. so we'd still require those animals, whereas bugs will be used for food only...

You've obviously never been to more impoverished areas of the world where any protein is good protein and domestically farmed animal supplies do not meet the demands. People will eat whatever is available. For example, the little, barely 2" aquarium fish, Brachydanio rerio, aka Zebra Danio, Zebrafish, and Glofish, is netted by the thousands in its native range. They fry them up and eat them whole, "like popcorn", if you ask a Bangladeshi. Crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, roaches, grubs, worms, etc. are already being eaten worldwide.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by kdodds:

You've obviously never been to more impoverished areas of the world where any protein is good protein and domestically farmed animal supplies do not meet the demands. People will eat whatever is available. For example, the little, barely 2" aquarium fish, Brachydanio rerio, aka Zebra Danio, Zebrafish, and Glofish, is netted by the thousands in its native range. They fry them up and eat them whole, "like popcorn", if you ask a Bangladeshi. Crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, roaches, grubs, worms, etc. are already being eaten worldwide.

No, no i havent, BUT, those meats haven't been replaced by bugs... There simply isn't enough to go around, so it's the meat replacing the bugs (The opposite of what the OP is claiming)

[Lowbei]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

Originally posted by kdodds:

You've obviously never been to more impoverished areas of the world where any protein is good protein and domestically farmed animal supplies do not meet the demands. People will eat whatever is available. For example, the little, barely 2" aquarium fish, Brachydanio rerio, aka Zebra Danio, Zebrafish, and Glofish, is netted by the thousands in its native range. They fry them up and eat them whole, "like popcorn", if you ask a Bangladeshi. Crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, roaches, grubs, worms, etc. are already being eaten worldwide.

No, no i havent, BUT, those meats haven't been replaced by bugs... There simply isn't enough to go around, so it's the meat replacing the bugs (The opposite of what the OP is claiming)

incorrect. they eat the bugs because they have no meat. its really that simple.

[Drahknon]

Originally posted by Liquid Inc:

Originally posted by kdodds:

You've obviously never been to more impoverished areas of the world where any protein is good protein and domestically farmed animal supplies do not meet the demands. People will eat whatever is available. For example, the little, barely 2" aquarium fish, Brachydanio rerio, aka Zebra Danio, Zebrafish, and Glofish, is netted by the thousands in its native range. They fry them up and eat them whole, "like popcorn", if you ask a Bangladeshi. Crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, roaches, grubs, worms, etc. are already being eaten worldwide.

No, no i havent, BUT, those meats haven't been replaced by bugs... There simply isn't enough to go around, so it's the meat replacing the bugs (The opposite of what the OP is claiming)

[citation needed]

My friend, there is actually a lot of material out there you can find that delves in this topic. If your question is "are insects a sustainable food source with benefits over other choices," then you should probably look for answers from qualified experts.

Rather than a video game forum.

[Lowbei]

YOU VILL EAT ZE BUGS!

[orangecrush]

Eating bugs™ and scifi is an old trope, way older then this conspiracy stuff. Though personally I prefer Oppressive Mush™, like in the matrix.

Just don't touch the Soylent Green™