Second part of my response to Andrew's post found here
Finally, most people in first world countries would likely be more opposed to eating insects than they would be opposed to giving up meat. If we are going to make an effort to get rid of the consumption of (non-insect) animals, we may as well work to get rid of the consumption of insects. Converting everyone to practice entomophagy would require more work for a less desirable result.
I suggest then, that we should make an effort to become entirely vegetarian. If we do so, the demand to find a decent substitute, founded largely in the meat-taste loving community, would likely speed up the technology necessary for cloned meat. Meat substitutes will only get better for meat-taste lovers, if more meat-taste lovers give up meat and search for/seek to create new meat substitutes. Necessity and desire are the parents of invention.
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