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Re:U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5% by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:26AM (#32413556)
Is there actually anything wrong with normalizing eating bugs? Like, get meat if you want but don't be a baby about insects?
Re:U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5% by norwalkbear on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:59PM (#32415155)
Yea insects typically have a high amount of allergens to humans. It's why bioreactors for things like insulin, igb, etc avoid insects cells if they can.
Re:U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5% by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:17PM (#32415452)
You want to go as low as possible for a medicine, but how common are allergies to the kind of breeds that make reasonable food?

For comparison, it would be silly to say we shouldn't normalize eating peanuts because of the allergy risk.

Re:U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5% by norwalkbear on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @02:16PM (#32416274)
Are you kidding? Insect cells used in bioreactors would be an order of magnitude safer than possible insect food ( medical grade is much much higher standard than food grade), and people still avoid it as much as possible . That should tell you "food grade" insects have enormous risk associated with them.
Re:U.S. annual inflation rate drops to 8.5% by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:58PM (#32418948)
Well if I look at peanuts again, an order of magnitude safer would still be something to avoid very strongly in bioreactors.

At this point I'll keep an eye out but insects are such a broad and mostly unexplored category that I'm not convinced there's an unavoidable and crippling allergen risk.