Efficiency is about physics. You can’t break the laws of physics. Economics are not physics and subsidies can go in many different directions.

If we plan on using the land to store carbon, to restore ecosystems and biodiversity, then land use and land use intensity will have to decrease, which will mean that we have make sure that land is used to feed people, not to feed food.

If you’re going to say “waste”, don’t bother. Waste firstly has to be reduced, and we need the rest for compost.

Your appeal to density works much like the bird CAFOs now in the face of HPAI. You think you’ve figured out a cheat, but, over time, it averages back down.

https://vegantheoryclub.org/ (instance)

The stochastic front line.

“Economic” depends on the subsidies which exist regardless of the species of those organisms.

There are many studies on these conversion ratios, I just wanted to point at one that gets into the “waste promise” too.

Nothing is going to beat eating plants because plants are primary producers of calories, amino-acids, fats.

What is going to happen, especially in the Western places where meat is in large demand and large supply, is that subsidies for insect farming are going to sustain the usual vertebrate farming.

“They have to rake the oceans!”

Honeybees are bugs

complaints

flour just refers to how the bulk food stuff is ground up into a powder. Do people really not know this?

Clearly your brain is carb deficient.

saves hundreds

1. Not the hundreds of crickets.

2. Unlikely to be money. Raising insects is, by definition, raising animals. They need to eat too, along with shelter.

Ditch the crickets, eat the legumes. Legumes won’t run away. 🫘🫛

You write out the warnings.

The problem isn’t just on X, it’s just more visible there.

If they’re privileged enough, they can be both!

Grim

Grimm

for shareholders

Chuck is famous in Romania for having a traditional “ranch” thing and owning a bunch of rural properties (in Romania). He’s not going vegan, he own animals: https://revista-ferma.ro/regele-charles-cauta-cioban-pentru-turma-sa-de-2-000-de-oi/ (use your own translation tool)

“NOM” is an onomatopoeic term for eating (an eating sound).

And they will use every tool like media, social media, TV, film, and more to keep us that way.

You forgot about the giant holy cow in the room.

Coming up with novel indicators is not enough. “GDP” isn’t simply about measuring economic growth, it’s about labeling the desirable feature for the economic elites. The obsession with growth predates GDP, it even predates Capitalism as it’s based on the much older “tradition” of imperialistic expansionism.

One of the reasons “degrowth” is useful is because it’s antithetical to capitalism and capitalism’s growth imperative, so it can’t be co-opted by capitalism. When you promote “regenerative”, you promote a term that has already been co-opted, most infamously now with the “regenerative grazing” pseudoscience.

heel our planet

heal*

For instance, even in a doomsday scenario (for them) of the French Revolution, the rich will have personal security guards. These people will be paid very well (relative to the general population), which will keep them loyal enough. They will eat at secure restaurants (similar deal), and enjoy activities in secure locations.

In a collapse scenario, their money will be worthless.

It’s certainly part of the catabolic stage in the system’s decay. Due to many reasons, both at the input side and the “drowning in waste” side (example: GHGs waste causing climate destabilization), growth is going to falter which means that the “sharing” strategy of the rich, of the oligarchs, is going to stop working. You may know it as “grow the pie” (instead of “share the pie”). The rich get richer, the rest get poorer, and there are going to be a lot of poor people. That means a lot of desperate people and a lot of people with nothing left to lose.

What you have to watch out for is perhaps two strategies that can stop this:

1. Scapegoating: vulnerable minorities and more. The rich of a certain ethnicity may become the scapegoats, instead of … you know, ALL of that class. This would be a misdirection of attention.
2. Jingoism, chauvinism and various forms of ultra-nationalism. This would be a misdirection of violence… instead of “punching up”, it becomes “punching the foreign threat”, which means war.
3. Combined 1 & 2. It’s usually called fascism.

Something to print:

On a related note, I really liked the recent season of “Arcane” (both seasons are great). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11126994/