Humans are omnivorous creatures. And perfectly eat everything edible. Snails, shrimps, crabs, even china grasshopers. Everything that could be grown/caught and cooked is in our menu for the millenias.
The thing with "ze bugz", they force, is that they are not edible. Humanity survived multiple starvations, and nowhere nobody could make worms and bugs edible even facing death from starvation. You can't make worms and bugs edible at home. You need a complex factory process to separate edible proteins from poisons and harmful stuff in worms and bugs.
And, obviously, only corporations could build a factory for worms and bugs processing. You are not able to grow that perfectly breeding worms for your own food. That is the catch.
So, corporations force "eat ze bugz", prohibit everything you could grow by yourself, and then sell the cheapest possible for them proteins for all your money.
So, don't "eat ze bugz", fuck all legislations and grow your own food.
Yes! Lab grown meat is also impossible without corporations. Good take, thank you.
I think it is also a kind of suppression. There is no any technical problem to make any look and taste at least similar to something well-known. I met soy meatballs that looked like real ones, with chicken-like taste. They was more expensive than real chicken ones, but that's another story. :)
Meanwhile, I always wondered, what is the target audience for soy products disguise as meat. Normal people will definitely just prefer real meat. So, it should be vegans. But the point of veganism is refusal of meat. So why the person who consciously refused meat will want a food that will look and taste like meat, instead of eating same soy beans or whatever soy product as it is, without masquerading meat? What is the poiint? If you still want to eat meat, it is kind of hypocrisy to declare yourself a vegan. There is also another possible target audience - f.e. Orthodox Russians have a tradition to hold a fast before great holidays - Easter, Christmas and so on, when you don't have to eat meat unless you hard working or travelling. Some kind of will training, and whatever excersise. May be they are an audience of soy "meat"? But the sole idea of fasting is to consciously limit yourself from eating that tasty meat. It will have no any sense in fasting if you will eat food that resemble meat, but formally it is not a meat. Hypocrisy again. So, it appears that "meat" made from soy, or whatever plants is a food only for hypocrites. :)
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