With enough practice any hack can create a CAD rendering of a blender or produce an iPhone mockup that'll earn hundreds of likes on Dribbble, but designing a device that convinces people to make a meal out of maggots? That requires a special level of skill. Designer Katharina Unger is on a mission to make eating insects irresistible.
The recent graduate from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and current Fulbright Scholar devoted her thesis project, called Farm 432: Insect Breeding, to developing an appliance that incubates insects for human consumption. The striking blue and white vessel is stocked with one gram of black soldier fly eggs, and over a period of 18 days, the eggs move through the device's chambers, gestating, reproducing, and ultimately producing 2.4 kilograms of nutritious, if slightly nauseating, fly larva.
This frightful food processor was invented to satisfy the meat cravings of the nine billion people expected to be living on Earth in 2050. To support that population, protein production will have to double and farming, primarily livestock cultivation, already uses up half of the planet's arable land, making it difficult to expand.
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I scream, you scream, we all scream when there are cicadas in the ice cream
No thank you I'll pass! You know whats funny theirs a market for this.
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No food shortage from where I come from. No thank you
I'd sooner eat pink slime than maggots.
Sheesh. I'll wait until I'm dead before I have maggots in my mouth.
So how much does this " machine cost "? In the Real world this is easily accomplished--place a dying Vegan outside and within 3 days you'll have all the maggots you could ever want. It ain't Rocket Science 'ya know?
The only catch is you have to make sure your vegan isn't too stringy. Otherwise your maggots will have a very short shelf-life.
Maggots don't care about stringy or fatty, we're all grist for their mill. They'll eat us whichever we are.
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