Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the insect farming industry is collapsing.

“We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.”

This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as critical to sustainably feeding a growing human population, because insects have a much smaller carbon footprint than beef, pork, and chicken.

Spoiler alert: We did not get used to the idea of eating insects.

In 2020, insect companies farmed an estimated one trillion bugs, and the most commonly farmed species today are black soldier fly larvae, mealworms, and crickets.

While some people might tell researchers they’re open to adding bugs to their diet, these smallest of animals remain a novelty food in the US and Europe, as opposed to a commodity capable of displacing wings or burgers.

“The human food market, basically, has not materialized,” Dustin Crummett, a philosopher and executive director of The Insect Institute — a nonprofit that researches the environmental and animal welfare implications of large-scale insect agriculture — told me. “Only a tiny fraction of farmed insects are used for human food.”

#ItsAFeatureNotABug

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/481920/insect-bug-farming-industry-startup-bankruptcy

Yes, of course. #ItsAFeatureNotABug #Fascism #Cowards

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So, I'm almost afraid to report this issue because I don't want it fixed.

I use Firefox as my main "personal" browser. Facebook loads, but after maybe 3-5 minutes, or after too many clicks on pieces of media, it inevitably starts having issues. It'll fail to load the feed, or freeze up, or the scrolling will start skipping the opposite way. I have problems with virtually 0 other sites.

I've never, ever cared to bother fixing it (nor do I want to), because every time it happens I'm like "well I shouldn't look at Facebook anymore anyways." Problem solved!

And this is coming from an IT infrastructure guy who's used to picking at every single anomaly or problem if only out of curiosity.

(Serious note: it's likely related to the fact that I run an ad blocker, privacy tracker, and the "FaceBook Container" add-on so Facebook is likely not getting nearly as much data from my session as it's used to.)

#FireFox #FaceBook #ItsAFeatureNotABug