[GenXPolymath]

Tell me you have never been to India w/o telling me you have never been to bloody India.

Cricketer for all you in traveled people is a professional player of the sport Cricket not the insect.

Indian’s are vegetarians they wouldn’t eat insect protein either as it’s well not vegetarian. This is a protein enhanced slice put on top of a chicken or veggie paddie to add protein to an already protein deficient group of people.

This is the continent where SCP is going to make the most impact. Single cell protein is made by yeast, or bacteria you can also do mycelium based proteins all of which some but not all vegetarians would eat.

Better yet grow said SCP using acetate you literally make from thin air and water plus any source of electrons you can get at. All while being an order of magnitude more efficient than any plant or animal could ever be its physics.

Either one of these is how you lift a billion humans out of protein deficiency.

Chickens, pigs are mono gastric and compete calorie for calorie with humans for food. What they eat we can eat directly and not invest the 2:1 or 4:1 feed to animal conversion ratio.

Only ruminants animals can eat things we cannot like cellulose and hemicellulose and turn that into animal mass. Sheep,goats, cattle, camels, bison, water buffalo,alpaca,llamas et al. Given the Indians beef and all bovine religious aversion those animals are out and given their population it would be impossible to raise enough feed for industrialized animal farms to feed 1.4 billion at Western protein intake given the arable land and water resources they have the math don’t work for it.

https://newatlas.com/science/artificial-photosynthesis-plants-grow-dark/

https://newatlas.com/environment/solein-protein-sustainable/

[Dr. Sivana]

Tell me you have never been to India w/o telling me you have never been to bloody India.

You responded to my post of someone refueling a Cricket lighter.

I am well aware that Indians play Cricket. I often read a headline, and see an ambiguity in the wording, and post the wrong way to take it as an attempt at humor. I have been doing it here for decades. It may be lame, but it is my sense of humor. Take it as a visual pun. (Most Cricket lighters aren't even meant to be refueled).

Unfortunately, I am NOT very well traveled, and that certainly includes India. I have had Indian co-workers and bosses for much of my career as I an in IT (including Sikh and Muslim). I have had discussions about the country with a very educated friend who spent years in Bombay and Goa.

Hindu Indians largely, but not entirely, are vegetarian. Many have no issues with chicken, which is why you often see Chicken Tandoori in Indian restaurants. Most certainly enjoy dairy (e.g. in lassi), a good protein source. Many also eat goat.

It turns out that many Indians who are strict vegetarians get a downturn in nutrition when they move to the UK. Studies suggest that they had been getting some protein through the accidental ingestion of insects (which India is full of).