Yeah, I’d have to try this. Apparently whalers in the 18-somethings stopped at the Galapagos to pick them up to eat later, and said they were delicious.
And Darwin agreed…
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I’ve looked into trapping and eating house sparrows, starlings, and feral pigeons–they’re so invasive in the US that they have no protections/trapping season. My aunt in China said that apparently Chinese people trap and eat sparrows and they are tasty.
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Dodo. I just want to know if the extinction was worth it.
I wonder how far such a lab would go if they could replicate any meat. Content creators would love the click bait value of trying ‘human’ 
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Every time I see this type of subject two thoughts collide:
You never hear about meat people trying to make vegetable replications
Soylent Green
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The article I linked says Darwin wrote “the meat to my taste is indifferent” but that he said it wasn’t bad
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if you’re going to be eating something that is unrecognizable, why would you not just eat a cocktail of amino acids? that would be cheaper than combining the amino acids into proteins in the lab. but then even cheaper than that is probably the process used to make Soylent Green.
They do all the time, they just don’t admit that’s what they’re doing. How do you think bacon ended up in all those places it shouldn’t’ve? it’s because there was a bunch of plant-based options, then people started saying “why hasn’t anyone made a meat based option of this?”
Who are THEY?
Did you misunderstand ?
Are people trying to make vegetables from meat?
Meat that tastes like vegetables?
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They is, as who it always is, the people trying to turn a profit
Bacon candy is the most obvious example of what I was saying, but also bacon in green beans (which makes the whole dish flavorless) and bacon on jalapeño poppers (which doesn’t work the way they thought it would). outside of bacon, we also have chicken fries which is a very literal, 1:1 example
Making vegetables from meat? Yes, that’s what the candy shows; like tofu was used to replace protein, they wanted a flavoring made from meat.
Meat taste like vegetables? No, because, unlike with tofu, they found no profit. There was no market for “meat that tastes like vegetables” so they stopped pursing it further, but there IS a market for “vegetables that taste like meat,” so the innovation progressed much further.
So you did misunderstand what I said and continued to make my point.
Honestly, house sparrows seem disgusting. Especially the ones in big cities that eat nothing but trash all day.
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If you can solve the carcinogen problem, then you have ethically sourced weight loss beef jerky.
Long pig - so try pork / ham / bacon ?
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When Elon takes his people to Mars - they will need to replicate fruit and veg too.
He will reprogram them with whatever controls he implants in their brains, they’ll eat whatever they are programmed to consume as"food".
Soylent Green certainly. Or the technology will switch off the humans. By-ee.
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I honestly don’t see that realistically happening, I think Elon has watched too many sci fi movies or something. Mars is and always will be a far harsher environment than Earth would be even after a full scale nuclear war. After the novelty wore off, I guarantee pretty much all Mars settlers would high tail it straight back to earth once the reality of living there set in
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And on the topic of “meat based vegetables:”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/arbys-meat-based-vegetable
Other factors impede the success of this project too.
[SpaceX Starship explodes]
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