It’s clear that there’s enough interest in this and enough people think this is a good idea that there will at least be some small market of products like this long term. I think that’s not really a debate.
However, what I am incredibly interested in is why this is so polarizing? It seems like people either go “hmm, yeah, okay, yes” or “OMG NO”. Why?
While I probably would not have predicted it a priori, it is in-retrospect-not-surprising that people have more visceral reactions to food than to many other things.
It’s clear that there’s enough interest in this and enough people think this is a good idea that there will at least be some small market of products like this long term. I think that’s not really a debate.
However, what I am incredibly interested in is why this is so polarizing? It seems like people either go “hmm, yeah, okay, yes” or “OMG NO”. Why?
While I probably would not have predicted it a priori, it is in-retrospect-not-surprising that people have more visceral reactions to food than to many other things.
strong status quo bias, as well as cultural inhibitions. Same reason people are all like EW you eat BUGS?!
I LOLed because European Union has invested some million euros on research programs about insects as protein source...