Last month the EU officially approved mealworms as safe for human consumption, sparking a bunch of articles on how bugs are the food of the future. In order to produce a kilogram of bug-based food, you need ~10k bugs. On the one hand, bugs probably don’t matter much morally. On the other hand, 10k is a lot. Do bugs have moral value? What about the other limit? Plausibly the most morally correct action, short of becoming vegetarian, would be to eat the largest animal there is. And according to the Talmud the righteous in Heaven dine on the flesh of Leviathan, which suffices to feed all of them forever. Hypothesis confirmed!

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