There's an important bit of dishonesty not noted about the CO2 emissions report, where they talked of total agricultural CO2 for cows, which includes transportation, processing, power usage, etc. Then focused solely on respiratory efficiency benefits for the insects, like the CO2 breathed out over the lifetime of the a cow isn't a small fraction of the total CO2 and a more efficient animal isn't going to slash total agricultural emissions in half, not even close

Hell, in isolation technically a cow grazing and breathing in a field is a slight net carbon capture for the farm, since all the carbon used in the cows lifetime is from carbon captured by the grass grown by the farmer, and some of that carbon remains captured in the cow's body. In every other industry they accept buying bullshit carbon capture offset credits as a valid excuse, but not when you actually do it yourself apparently.

There's an important bit of dishonesty not noted about the CO2 emissions report, where they talked of total agricultural CO2 for cows, which includes transportation, processing, power usage, etc. Then focused solely on respiratory efficiency benefits for the insects, like the CO2 breathed out over the lifetime of the a cow isn't a small fraction of the total CO2 and a more efficient animal isn't going to slash total agricultural emissions in half, not even close

Hell, in isolation technically a cow grazing and breathing in a field is a slight net carbon capture for the farm, since all the carbon used in the cows lifetime is from carbon captured by the grass grown by the farmer, and some of that carbon remains captured in the cow's body. In every other industry they accept buying bullshit carbon capture offset credits as a valid excuse, but when you actually do it yourself apparently.