The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home 184
An anonymous reader writes "A recent UN report suggested that people should be eating more insects, because they're much less harmful to the environment that traditional meat. In response, designer Mansour Ourasanah has created the Lepsis, a small insect breeder that could be used to grow and harvest grasshoppers in urban homes."
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Re:why not garden and have chickens instead? (Score:4, Insightful)
many people have lawns. Lawns are mowed to look nice. Nice looking lawns are not useful for food production. Kill the grass and plant the whole yard with food for your family, and then maybe they won't have to eat bugs.
also if you have a yard, you could parcel off a small bit of it for a chicken coop for not too much money and grow your own eggs / chickens
In most municipalities, you can't really raise chickens. E.g where I live chickens cannot be kept within ~100 feet of a dwelling structure.
Gardening is usually doable though! Unless you are under a super obnoxious HOA, you can usually get away with a food-garden.
Re:this is a ridiculous recommendation (Score:2, Insightful)
I have incisors, which means I was designed for meat. I also have molars which means I can grind pulp and veggies.
To deny either denies what my body was made for.
Re:I'm sorry, but... (Score:4, Insightful)
A proper meat eater isn't put off by blood and gore.
I've eaten pig in the farmhouse next to which it was raised, and let me tell you, we enjoyed it all the more for knowing exactly where it had come from.
Yes, it's cultural and conditioned, and if we'd been brought up eating insects we might find the idea of grasshopper mouth-watering. However, most of us were not.
Re:I'm sorry, but... (Score:2, Insightful)
First, you'll hear reports about people who can't bear to eat their precious grasshoppers, so they have been returning them to the wild.
Then, you'll hear about the swarms of locusts devastating the countryside.