/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14741542
Those questions are too big for a monkey to worry about

>>14741542
we're pretty much fucked. you can die here in the coming apocalypse or be a slave for elon musk on mars.

it's the genetic variety within those species that matters

Eat the fucking bugs

>>14741626
Why not crustacea? They are related

>>14741542
>>14741545
>NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!! YOU HAVE TO DIVERSIFY EVEN MOOOOOOOORE!
Fuck off. There's plenty of diversity already in the those species.

>>14741626
people pay top money to eat bugs already and everyone's fine with it because they're in the ocean for some reason.

>>14741661
Not all arthropods are insects. Crustaceans actually have meat on them which can be separated and aren't just tiny specs of chitin and guts which have to be eaten whole.

>>14741639
>Fuck off. There's plenty of diversity already in the those species.
no there isn't, cunt.

>>14741606
I heard there's a lot less variety in vegetables than in the past and it could be a problem if some parasite or illness were to target them don't know how true it is. Animals seem fine, there's a big farming convention where I live and there's like hundreds of cow species

>>14741669
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rice_cultivars
Rice alone has over a thousand distinct cultivars grown around the world.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chicken_breeds
There are hundreds of breeds of chicken around the world.

>>14741674
>you could eat a different combination of chicken breed and rice cultivar every day of your life

Stupid phone posters shouldn't be allowed to post on 4channel.

>>14741684
I think the compromise should be that they shouldn't be allowed to start threads or post images without buying a pass. That way the site still makes income and the bans are enforceable.

>>14741542
EAT.THE.BUGS!

>>14741694
>You WILL follow the bugs!
>You WILL eat the mask!
>You WILL wear the floor arrows!

>>14741673
it's not particularly true, varieties can and have gone extinct.. look at the gros michel banana for example
but the field of horticulture has enough scientists and hobbyists working on plants all the time that if a concerted effort was needed to preserve a species they can and have pulled it together

>>14741542
Nah

>>14741545
Why no pork milk industry?

>>14741730
Apparently sows are very dificult to milk

>>14741674
I think if one breed of chicken gets bird flu than the others will too

Only with gmo this will pan out, like fungal disease resistant tomato

why wouldn't it be? Nothing we do is designed to last; only to be as cheap as possible right now.

>>14741542
12 plants?
No, more like 40 to 100
within most of those "12" plants there's about 10 varieties that we eat
Same goes with that 5 animal species, we have enough genetic diversity to protect us from disease

Seriously, go to your grocery store and tell me how many different kinds of rice you can spot
long
medium
short
sushi
basmati
jasmine
jade
forbidden
wild
golden (if you're in the third world countries)
glutinous

And this is in the midwest USA

Sure if you go to a supermarket, most of the chicken there comes from one breed--but we have enough other breeds so that we could cross breed a type of chicken that is less resistant to a disease that outbreaks

>>14741735
Some breeds may resist the disease more than others, which is one reason why genetic diversity is so valuable

>>14741542
yes let us return to hunter-gatherer, monkey

>>14741735
The massive diversity of animal breeds and plant cultivars in farming today is why there's never been a world-ending disease like some shitty Michael Crichton thriller novel. Selective breeding and GMOs are what has lead to the diversity we have now. Most GMOs are tailored to the regions and conditions they grow in and thus aren't all vulnerable to the same things.