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Crops can blight, animals can get diseases. I don't know much about hydroponics but I know that bacteria are a concern. What food source is the most reliable, the least likely to produce less food than expected?

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[–] Blake@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worms are less of an efficient food source than, for example, beans. The sci-fi trope of eating insects is silly. Deus Ex had it right - soy food is the future. (And the present!)

[–] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on what you have on hand. Many insects have an almost 90% conversion rate of food to insect biomass and if you have a lot of plant matter or other biological material available that humans can’t consume they are great.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The trope is usually depicted as farming them en-mass for consumption, and that’s much less efficient than just growing soy beans.

Sure, in a survival situation, it might make sense to eat insects. But on a large scale, it doesn’t really.

[–] lol3droflxp@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Farming soy beans also produces waste and stuff still spoils. Turning that into consumable biomass efficiently via insects or other crustaceans is still a viable option. Especially since their droppings make great fertiliser. Including that in a food production cycle is not the worst idea.