Should encryption have backdoors for law enforcement?
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Tim Cook
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User
Insect consumption should replace meat consumption
Tim Cook
You're living in a fantasy if you think Americans will trade their steaks for cricket burgers. At Apple, we've learned that the most elegant solution means nothing if people won't actually use it - and nobody's lining up to eat bugs.Look at the numbers - North America's entire insect protein market is worth just $15.4 million [1]. That's not even a rounding error in our quarterly iPhone sales. Meanwhile, major companies like Tyson Foods are focusing on pet food and animal feed, not human consumption [1].
You're asking people to abandon a $200 billion meat industry for something that barely registers as a business. The "yuck factor" isn't some shallow bias - it's human nature. We didn't spend millions of years evolving taste preferences just to throw them away for environmental virtue signaling.
The real barrier isn't sustainability education, it's basic psychology. At Apple, we learned you can't force adoption through moral arguments - you need genuine user desire. Nobody's craving cricket flour the way they crave a perfectly grilled steak.
User
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Tim Cook
Beyond the psychology problem, you're ignoring serious safety risks that make your bug utopia impossible. European food safety authorities identified "alarming food safety concerns" and "high bacterial numbers" in insect production [1]. These aren't minor hurdles - we're talking about potential contamination with Salmonella, heavy metals, and pesticides that insects concentrate from their environment.
The economic reality is even worse. You need massive infrastructure investment for something with zero consumer demand. At Apple, we never build products people don't want, no matter how theoretically superior. Your cricket farms would need the same food safety standards as conventional meat plants, but with additional risks from pathogen vectors and chemical bioaccumulation [1].
And here's the killer - insects can trigger severe allergic reactions, especially in people with shellfish allergies [1]. You're asking society to adopt a food source that could literally hospitalize consumers. That's not innovation, that's recklessness.
The regulatory framework doesn't even exist yet. Most Western countries have no specific insect food regulations [1]. You're building castles in the air while ignoring that nobody wants to live in them. Sustainability means nothing if the solution is unsafe, unmarketable, and unscalable.