Crickets?
I'd have thought locusts would be a better bet: grow bigger so more meat, and better vegetable to meat conversion. Also they eat a wider range of foodstuffs.
Besides which you can deep fry them for use in hot dogs
The outgoing executive chairman of Cisco, John Chambers, has made no secret about his desire to invest in drones in his life after the Borg. But now he has also revealed his passion for cricket farming. Speaking at the Techonomy conference for the last time before stepping down as chairman of Cisco next month, Chambers spoke …
Locusts, you can but dream. By the time the US food companies are done with them it will be 50% sawdust and GMO high starch filler, 40% GMO soy, corn syrup and artificial flavouring, 5% preservative and 5% undisclosed byproducts of the pharmaceutical industry. The big label on the front showing a cartoon image of a super locust will be as close as you will get to your fantasy protein source.
Locusts?
THIS is a cricket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_weta
Weta are giant flightless crickets. In the bush the smaller sort fill a niche occupied by mice in Northern Hemisphere forests. The giant sort are perfectly harmless and peaceful but the bush wetas are grumpy and aggressive and BITE.
But human is the only option for vegans who are vegan for ethical reasons..
As humans can chooose to donate cells to be eaten so removing lack of consent ethical issues
I'm setting up my startup catering to PC vegans, I'm collecting (with consent) the unwanted dangly bits of males who undergo male to female gender re-assignment surgery, and making premium quality sausages from them.
Only problem is lack of sausage size consistency as large variation in volume of individual donated tissue
.., add you own not very serious icon of choice
You might want to team up with Pamela over at www.peacefur.com as I'd wager your business models would complement each other nicely.
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..it's no big deal.
Ground Crickets are very dry to eat I've found, but can be used in flour, but currently UK prices are astronomical.
Meal worms, nice little snack, a little like twiglets if you you like them.
Not over keen on grubs, similar texture to tomatoes, i.e. firm outside, squishy inside...and I hate raw tomatoes.
As an additive to say cereal or bread products, I say go for it.
Anything to piss the Vegans off.
I grew up in Auckland, NZ where if you don't wipe up every little tiny smear of syrup or jam AND keep your sugar in a sealed container in the fridge it will be BLACK with ants in the morning.
I was helping my father paint the roof (corrugated iron, de rigeur) once and there was a line of ants up the front of the house (1 1/2 stories), across the roof and down 2 stories (house goes down the hill) to a pot of ant poison placed on the rail of the downstairs deck, and back.
Auckland and the top of the North Island of NZ are sub tropical. Coming back from university down south on my motorbike at term end the amount of insect strike on my faceplate and bike went up noticeably as I descended off the central volcanic plateau heading north.
... almost exactly like popcorn with a hint of shrimp[0]. I toss 'em with a little salt and some chili powder[1], and sometimes throw in a little lime zest. Tasty, cheap, and nutritious. What's not to like? You can easily find them online as "Chapulines", if you have the mind to do so.
[0] The ones a friend sends me from Mexico, anyway.
[1] Usually Jalapino powder, but sometimes I'll go hotter. Depends on who I'm preparing them for.
That's utterly ridiculous, at least in the west where it would take a couple generations at the minimum to change attitudes to where eating insects was acceptable to most let alone preferred over animal protein.
The only way this happens is if he's got some crazy ideas about an impending agricultural disaster that will decimate livestock by then, so people will have no choice because not many could or would afford a $500 burger or bucket of fried chicken!
I've tried Quorn. It lacks in taste and texture compared to the meat it tries to replace.
This. Why do vegetablists want to replicate the texture and flavour of the meat? If I was to go that way, I'd probably be happy to eat the stuff but making it look and taste like meat[1] would soon send me back to the real stuff..
[1] Does bacon qualify as meat? I don't think I could give it up.. and I've tried turkey bacon. Tastes neither like turkey or bacon and so fails on both fronts.
I'm wondering how much more interesting cricket farming might be, compared to raising mammals.
If you make cricket meat a normal meal (as opposed to high profit snacks) you will need to raise huge quantities of them, with all the problems this entails (food, waste, containment, preventing diseases).
Also, there is the chitin exoskeleton problem: Is there an industrial way to remove it? Peeling shrimps is already quite complicated and expensive, and they are much simpler built (I think). Yes, I know you can eat it, but eating great quantities of chitin every other day might create digestive problems (at least for some people), not to mention potential technical problems in waste water treatment (clogging, etc.).