Vegetables are a better source of protein and healthy fats, and they're more efficient. Insects are just animals that inefficiently convert calories into animal protein. On top of that it's not ethical to eat animals.
not necessarily, otherwise there wouldn't be carnivores/predators. And vegetables may be not very well available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4H8JHoSrSs
>Insects are just animals that inefficiently convert calories into animal protein.
somebody converting calories into animal protein saves a carnivore a need to have longer/bigger/heavier gastrointestinal tract than it otherwise has to have. Thus carnivore can have more efficient body for movement (and thinking - apes started to become humans ones they started to scavenge and eat meat about 2 million years ago, though it is not meat eating alone or primarily, the primary trigger was scavenging and later hunting activities that caused our ancestors to pick a stone and stick as a weapon )
Note: personally moving toward vegetarianism (mostly for ethical reasons), not there yet, as of now have completely dropped beef, lamb, pork and am eating more vegetables and fish.
What is the more ethical way for an insect to go? Mass starvation? Mass graves created from pesticide use? Or being grown for human consumption?
Insects are far more efficient than livestock. Also, you can feed them things that humans can't eat (like rice stalks and husks) so they can be an environmental net win.
Non-sense. Insects, like other animals, are calories condensers that the human body can actually absorb. We don't have a rumen.