No insects as food ?

[cmdr 0303]

Hi cmdr's,
I see that humans are still eating animal meat and there are no insects on the menu...THIS is the main reason why they are starving from hunger @ so many places.
Humanity knew already back in the 1900's on Earth that animal meat would not be sufficient to deal with the growing population, they also knew that insects were eaten by many humans on the planet.

To me it seems impossible that humans have migrated into space and survived without insects.
Insects would not suffer much from the zero gravity because they are the best adapters and survivors out there.
They do not suffer from diseases or anything else, like animals do.
They take less space and give more energy/ton.
So why still have "animal meat" to trade and no insects ???
Note, humans don't need milk to survive other then the mother milk.

Fly with a smile !

 

[Jaiotu]

Insects aren't animals?

 

[Frank]

Hi cmdr's,
...

Fly with a smile !

That fly isn't going to have a smile when it finds out what you intend to do with it.

 

[Pyrotiger]

The concept bugs me.

 

[samuelb]

So many things in this game make little sense, this one among them.

Little fluffy (fake) animals (Xihe pets) with AI, but ship computers no smarter than what we have now?

Route planning limited to 1000 lys despite many CMDRs having travelled across the galaxy, so viable routes are known?

Engineers who cannot engineer things, only guess at the results?

No economy in water?

Etc, Etc. there are many posts dealing with this stuff but yours is a good one, duly repped.

Fly safe CMDR.

 

[Jaiotu]

So many things in this game make little sense, this one among them.

Little fluffy (fake) animals (Xihe pets) with AI, but ship computers no smarter than what we have now?

Route planning limited to 1000 lys despite many CMDRs having travelled across the galaxy, so viable routes are known?

Engineers who cannot engineer things, only guess at the results?

No economy in water?

Etc, Etc. there are many posts dealing with this stuff but yours is a good one, duly repped.

Fly safe CMDR.

The 1,000 light-year route planning limit isn't a game play decision. It's a state of 21st century hardware and software decision. Frontier made a very big deal about how they'd tweaked the route planning algorithm to increase the original 100-light-year limit up to 1000.

 

[samuelb]

The 1,000 light-year route planning limit isn't a game play decision. It's a state of 21st century hardware and software decision. Frontier made a very big deal about how they'd tweaked the route planning algorithm to increase the original 100-light-year limit up to 1000.

I see, thank you for correcting me - I will stop moaning about this issue forthwith ;-)

Fly safe CMDR

 

[Jaiotu]

I see, thank you for correcting me - I will stop moaning about this issue forthwith ;-)

Fly safe CMDR

I still moan about it ... even knowing the limitation. There should be ways to work around it ... you'd think. They could calculate the first 1,000 light-years of route and then calculate the next 1,000 when you reach that waypoint. Oh well... my first big exploration trip was when we had that 100 year light-year limit. More trips to the galaxy map than I'd like to remember.

 

[Lucius-Darcia]

Some of the rare goods have insectoid food mjami

 

[CMDR Ahab]

Erm, might be missing the point here of the OP but Uzsian Tree Grubs are a rare good food stuff?

 

[killminster]

Mukusubii Chitin-Os.

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Mukusubii_Chitin-Os

Giant Irukama Snails.

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Giant_Irukama_Snails

 

[Trinity Star]

Space Weevils?

 

[samuelb]

I still moan about it ... even knowing the limitation. There should be ways to work around it ... you'd think. They could calculate the first 1,000 light-years of route and then calculate the next 1,000 when you reach that waypoint. Oh well... my first big exploration trip was when we had that 100 year light-year limit. More trips to the galaxy map than I'd like to remember.

Oy yes I remember those days too, beta backer here. 1000 > 100 that's for sure

 

[Zeeman]

Fried crickets in Thailand are actually quite delicious. they also go well with beer.

Just sayin'.

Z...

 

[metatheurgist]

Why would you eat insects when you've got hundreds of earth-like worlds to grow cows on? And even then you still have artificial meat. And even after that it'd make more sense to convert insect biomass to tastier biomass, feeding fish insect larvae then using fish meal to grow tastier options.

 

[bitstorm]

Good post OP.

 

[Limoncello Lizard]

There's a few interesting foods available as rare goods:

• Karsuki Locusts
• Uszaian Tree Grub
• Mukusubii Chitin-os
• Baltha'sine Vacuum Krill
• Live Hecate Sea Worms

 

[Siobhan]

Thargoids are insects right?

 

[Lestat]

Yum chocolate covered insects. A little crunch to your munch.

 

[Hydrino]

Why would you eat insects when you've got hundreds of earth-like worlds to grow cows on? And even then you still have artificial meat. And even after that it'd make more sense to convert insect biomass to tastier biomass, feeding fish insect larvae then using fish meal to grow tastier options.

Some insects are quite tasty, some grubs taste like gouda cheese.

In any event, its a good OP point, but maybe a bit too in the weeds. Raising and killing animals to satisfy one's taste is inefficient and a nasty business. In the ED future almost all meat would be lab-grown with perhaps just a few rare-goods being flesh from a live animal.

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Thargoids are insects right?

+10 for the lulz