The "why" is history. When I studied the past, I saw that in most societies the upper classes would gorge themselves on feasts containing the finest, fattiest meats while the lower classes would feed on left overs from the harvests. I say "history" like it's ancient but that was the reality of my previous generation: I literally grew up with my father telling me of his hardships, a major symbol of which was the fact there were times when he could not afford meat.

That's why it's an indignity to be reduced to eating insects. You can bet your house the billionaires of this world won't be eating them.

Feel strongly about it? A couple years ago in my country a president was elected partly by promising citizens they would be able to eat fine meat regularly again. He's a communist so of course he didn't deliver, and it looks like people are starting to feel the misery of it.

Also, global warming is not really a concern to me. Other countries have been destroying the planet for literal centuries and getting rich off it but when it's our turn to exploit our land we can't? I reject that notion.

People love to talk about the "externalities" of meat production. As far as I'm concerned, the biggest externality of all is the cost of my country not being rich and prosperous and developed. You know, like the former british empire with their famous steaks, now mostly represented by the US. They might want to factor that externality in before they talk to us about climate nonsense.