But at the same time, food is just a collection of chemicals and structures - it’s just body fuel. I find projects like Soylent and cricket protein fascinating because they are just finding different ways to create fuel. Now that we are a more connected planet and have a great understanding of what the body needs, why not experiment a bit with known methods like eating insects? Insects seem like an efficient way to turn sun/soil/water/plant energy into a more complex protein, much more efficient than growing/slaughtering/processing/shipping an entire cow. And maybe crickets are tasty to us mutants, I haven’t tried them yet.
My imagination strays to thinking of space colonization and easy to transport colonies of low maintenance insects that can be quickly multiplied with whatever plant source to create human food. Much easier than trying to lug around an collection of edible red/white meat animals.
That all being said, I would never want to get rid of the culture and identify that food brings nor remove the local flavor that each geographic region has. A future world removed from the fat of the land where we all wear gray smocks and eat nothing by tasteless cricket gruel seems like a bland hell.
