Thanks! Hopefully it’s not too derivative of your work. I want to look into this more in the future and hopefully be able to say some more novel and insightful things.
I mainly relied on the FAO sourcebook on edible insects which claims higher efficiency for crickets. It seems like most articles on the subject claim higher efficiency, but I haven’t looked into it deeply enough to be able to determine that. I should probably have just relied on your article on that subject.
Yeah, I’m not sure about freezing. I mostly think we just don’t know enough about it and the Wikipedia page seems pretty sceptical about freezing as a method of killing.
Sometimes when it’s cold and I’m trying to sleep (like when I’m camping) I will manage a sort of sleep state, but one where I’m still feeling an unpleasant amount of cold. I guess I imagine that an insect’s response to freezing could be like that for some portion of the time.
I guess it wouldn’t make sense for the nervous system to send “avoid this” messages to the animal while the animal wasn’t able to avoid the situation because it was too cold, but the nervous system can’t get everything right in all circumstances.
It seems like most articles on the subject claim higher efficiency
Yeah. :) I was just offering one more data point. In the Table 3 screenshot in the link I gave above, it’s carp rather than chicken that are most competitive with crickets in terms of feed conversion.
the Wikipedia page seems pretty sceptical about freezing as a method of killing
I wrote that page, so it’s not an independent source :) (although the citations within it are).
wouldn’t make sense for the nervous system to send “avoid this” messages to the animal while the animal wasn’t able to avoid the situation
It could still make sense in terms of creating a bad experience that makes the animal try harder to avoid such a situation next time (if there is a next time).
Thanks! Hopefully it’s not too derivative of your work. I want to look into this more in the future and hopefully be able to say some more novel and insightful things.
I mainly relied on the FAO sourcebook on edible insects which claims higher efficiency for crickets. It seems like most articles on the subject claim higher efficiency, but I haven’t looked into it deeply enough to be able to determine that. I should probably have just relied on your article on that subject.
Yeah, I’m not sure about freezing. I mostly think we just don’t know enough about it and the Wikipedia page seems pretty sceptical about freezing as a method of killing.
Sometimes when it’s cold and I’m trying to sleep (like when I’m camping) I will manage a sort of sleep state, but one where I’m still feeling an unpleasant amount of cold. I guess I imagine that an insect’s response to freezing could be like that for some portion of the time.
I guess it wouldn’t make sense for the nervous system to send “avoid this” messages to the animal while the animal wasn’t able to avoid the situation because it was too cold, but the nervous system can’t get everything right in all circumstances.
Yeah. :) I was just offering one more data point. In the Table 3 screenshot in the link I gave above, it’s carp rather than chicken that are most competitive with crickets in terms of feed conversion.
I wrote that page, so it’s not an independent source :) (although the citations within it are).
It could still make sense in terms of creating a bad experience that makes the animal try harder to avoid such a situation next time (if there is a next time).
Haha, oh, I didn’t know you wrote that page :) That’s good enough for the future.