soylentvanilla: sunlitrevolution: FARM 432 PROTEIN BRED IN 432 HOURS BACKGROUND: Industrial scale

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FARM 432

PROTEIN BRED IN 432 HOURS

BACKGROUND:

Industrial scale production of animal meat is intense in its use of resources. One third of croplands worldwide are used to produce animal feed. 80% of antibiotics are fed to animals and livestock is the single biggest factor for climate change. Livestock feed is one of the most important key factors for the environmental impact of meat production. Elaborate research into this topic revealed opportunity for a more independent, decentralized way of farming protein.

IDEA:

Farm 432 enables people to become independent from the system of current meat production by growing their own protein source at home. After 432 hours, 1 gram of black soldier fly eggs turn into 2.4 kilogram of larvae protein, larvae that self-harvest and fall clean and ready to eat into a harvest bucket.  Black soldier fly adults don´t eat, therefore they don´t have any mouth parts and do not transmit any disease. The larvae can be fed on bio waste, therefore the production almost costs no water or CO2. Black soldier fly larvae are one of the most efficient protein converters in insects, containing up to 42% of protein (dried), a lot of calcium and amino acids.

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Or people could go vegan? Like, are people seriously more willing to eat bugs than beans?

Depends on how sustainable beans are - certainly better than livestock farming, no arguments there, but vegetables still need an investment of land, water, biomass and time. I’d be interested to see how insect protein compares to vegetable protein in terms of resources needed per gram of protein produced.

Either way this thing’s interesting because it’s something people can run in their own homes and feed with kitchen scraps. Decentralised protein!