I think that the downvoting is more likely tied to your outlandishly wild claims as fact of both cricket usage in Soylent and that the government will force consumption of it. Neither of those claims are at all verifiable or likely within any basis of reality.

If your post contained "might" instead of "will", then it would be reasonable speculation, but as currently written it's an unreasonable assertion.

For example, since Soylent explicitly aims to keep the product vegan, including cricket protein is unlikely even if nutrition and economic reasons are not a concern.

Nothing in your post was close to reasonable.

Just because an idea makes one uncomfortable ("eating sludge", "efficient and sustainable nutrition impacting public policy", etc.) does not make it unreasonable, least of all unreasonable for discussion. The opposite should be true.

No, the idea that the government is going to make it mandatory. That alone is looney enough to make the rest of your post unreasonable for discussion.

You are surprised people downvoted you stating that it will become a moral imperative to eat food in sludge form?

Note that I'm not talking about the crickets at all there, I'm talking about eating a thick nutrient shake as a major source of calories.

> food in sludge form

Hardly. People tend to enjoy Soylent. Even some troops prefer to use Soylent rather than eat MREs.

That doesn't dispute it being sludge. And if you think the general population is ready to eat Soylent on a day-to-day basis you are very mistaken.

I have a reptile and feed it crickets daily.

You can't simply hope crickets will be full of good stuff naturally. We need to "gut load" them and cover them with vitamin and calcium powder. We make them eat quality nutrients before feeding them to the reptiles. Otherwise they are only almost only empty calories and not very good for the animal's health.

We humans would simply eat what the crickets eat instead of eating the crickets themselves. We have no issues eating non-moving pray.

That being said, I do agree that insects should be added to our diet!

It depends on what you're using the crickets/insects for. When we humans eat corn-fed meat sources, you aren't exactly getting a burst of nutrition for the same reasons you point out. You're still getting the fat and protein from the meat. I'm guessing the same is true for commercially-raised crickets. The point is that the crickets are not the only thing being consumed, they are being used for their protein and fats while other parts of the diet/meal add necessary nutrients.