在一个外表比精华更重要的世界里，它只能以这种方式结束。他们称之为“食品设计”，它涉及创造你可以用眼睛吃的食物，这是一种旨在改变食物和消费者之间关系的技术。最终目标是惊人，没有考虑食物的营养价值，而是作为用于构造可食用物体的原料。这不是一种新颖性。在过去的20年左右的西方世界各地一直坚持认为，美食不仅仅是道德问题，也是美学。道德和美学是一对可能只在原则上相互补充的单词。事实上，必须采取谨慎，因为为了外观（美学），易于施放精华（道德）。事实上，肉类，意大利面，巧克力，蔬菜和其他食品曾经是农业和工业的产品，为喂养人的独家范围。现在，它们被用作食品设计对象的原材料，以在欧洲和北美散落的未来派餐厅中以吸收价格消耗。这些产品可能会令人愉悦，也许甚至可以到口感，并且最肯定地满足审美原因......但很少适用于道德。 Ethics is about producing nutritious food at a low cost to deal with the drastic reduction in food consumption resulting from an economic-financial crisis that has been gnawing at continents worldwide and for which no end seems to be in sight. Ethics is what “Feeding the Planet”, the theme of the upcoming Expo 2015, is all about – most importantly feeding the planet with products from the poorest nations of the world. Drastically reducing food waste is another ethical issue, a phenomenon that occurs for different reasons from North to South all over the globe. Ethics also plays a major role in the organization of our future food supply, when there will be 8 billion of us in 2030 and in 2050, according to FAO estimates, we will reach 9 billion inhabitants. We have to re-think food and at the same time reflect upon how to safeguard our resources and the environment. Limited possibilities to expand agricultural areas, combined with scarcity of water and the climate change already in progress, all aggravate even more the concerns about supplying food raw materials. Today the possibility of new food sources from insects is more than just a hypothesis. Currently two billion people in the world are consuming these and the practice is growing. Certainly, for us Westerners, this is not a simple issue, even though unknowingly we might already be consuming proteins sourced from insects. If that is the case then, it is not really a question of ethics or aesthetics. It is not critical that food meets design criteria but it certainly does matter that ingredients are clearly identified so that consumers are aware and can freely choose the food they eat. This also goes for GMO and must pertain as well to ingredients that are extracted or in some way, sourced from insects. Aesthetics applied without ethics is a waste of time, whereas food ethics is the outcome of a quest pursued by both producers and consumers.
