>>7643924Thank you.
>>7643902> 'cricket powder' which is ground up, dried crickets and can be put into breads like flour. While I may not eat the bugs in my yard, I'd totally try something like cricket powder.Fish and chickens love crickets. Fish and chickens are more desirable food for humans than are crickets.
My point is that it's not an advancement in humanity to figure out how to feed ourselves with the cheapest resource possible. Advancement is taking that resource and making the most of it by using it as an input to a system of better products. Then streamlining that system to get more quality outputs from a given input. This is important so that our highest level to fall from in an emergency is not already 'famine food'.
This is a point I was trying to make in my previous post. The people in the video had streamlined a system of sending kids to capture insects, while the adults prepared them into meals. If there is a time when those bugs are rare, that food source is gone to those people.
My example of using nuisance bugs as supplementary food for fish (tilipia, which are omnivores, and so easy to feed), which dirty water, which is cleaned by feeding plants, and the absence of those bugs nets more food from my garden and trees, shows that we don't have to reduce our numbers or food quality to increase the earth's carrying capacity. Also, when bugs are less available to me, I still have a garden, fish that will eat plants (and even whole mice), and plants that are growing to feed those fish if needbe.
