Re:Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour
by nhangen on Sunday August 18, 2013 @11:47PM
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This is gross. I'm a vegetarian, so I'm biased, but am I the only one that thinks moving from animal sourced protein to slow roasted crickets sounds obscene?
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Re:Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour
by chad_oliver on Sunday August 18, 2013 @11:54PM
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You're probably not the only one, but I suspect that this is driven by culture more than anything else. (Of course, this doesn't make you feelings any less valid.) Crickets are likely to be less conscious and 'sentient' than animals such as cattle, and so I think this is a very good step from an ethical point of view.
If the crickets are "slow roasted" alive, that is cruel (and alarming) although I certainly hope and would think this isn't the case.
Anyone have any clarification?
I don't know how they make them, but keep in mind crickets can't feel pain, and are cold blooded (so can't really feel temperature either).
They can't feel pain? You have a citation for that claim?
> You have a citation for that claim?
You can use google just as well as I can. Search for "insect feel pain".
They don't have the necessary nerves to carry pain signals.
As an example, if you cut off part of the leg of an ant it keeps walking like normal, and doesn't show any indication that it felt anything. (They used this with a cool experiment that showed ants count steps when navigating - the shorter legs meant they walked a shorter distance, but kept the same number of steps.)
I did research this topic and recent studies show insects DO feel pain, and unlike you I have a citation to back it up: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867403...