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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefano Vaj<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Cheap Source of Protein was Re: Pink Slime<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2012/3/15 Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se">anders@aleph.se</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>Yup. I have tried the cricket tacos at Cafe Oaxaca in San Francisco, and they were very good. crunchy and enjoyable. <br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I suspect however that most insects are not really edible unless processed one way or another - which is strictly true for many other everyday foods, for that matter.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>--<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Stefano Vaj<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja. For most moderns, if you gave us a basket of wheat and a sack of potatoes, we would be near starvation before we figured out what to do with them. We haven’t so much increased our knowledge as we have specialized. We know how to drive cars, set up tax sheltered annuities, write fast compact code, but we would have a damn hard time even surviving without a steady electric supply in the wall. Of course, the old knowledge isn’t exactly lost but rather merely externalized. We don’t need to know everything: there is a good website out there somewhere that explains exactly how to process a basket of wheat and a sack of potatoes. But of course we need a steady supply of power to use that, and a functional internet. I find it remarkable that in the past fifty years, humanity has become dependent on electricity for survival, and in the past twenty years, dependent on the internet for reasonable levels of functional adequacy, to access the pool of accumulated knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nearly all bugs are edible: our stomachs know what to do. But to make them palatable requires a great deal of skill, some of which is yet to be discovered, skills which will eventually be distributed via the internet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>