Engineers turn the body's goo into new glue

Re:Engineers turn the body's goo into new glue by trhatsFjh on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:28AM (#43149927)

People have evolved a natural protective feeling of disgust when confronted with the possibility of eating insects and worms. Try cultivating 100 mealworms, smell them and then put them in your mouth.

Slogans cannot overcome this feeling, that is why they are sold in the form of powders or stealthily added to food.

But I get that these powders are a great startup idea that requires no intellect, only advertising ("this is actually a good thing") and lobbying for dropping regulations.

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Re:Engineers turn the body's goo into new glue by prododev on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:49AM (#43150097)

I mean, put some live shrimp on a plate and I'm sure people will not feel great about it either.

People have eaten bugs around the world forever, from prehistory to modern times.

Scorpions, snails, ants, silkworms, grasshoppers, bees, and yes, mealworms, all have long long long histories of being a part of human diets. See also Carmine and shellac.

You live a sheltered life that hasn't been exposed to this extremely normal phenomena.

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