Posted on 11/23/2014 10:11:53 AM PST by Dallas59
Bugs reduce pollution, increase nutrition, and should seriously be considered as a food source: This is according to a UN report with University of Copenhagen contribitions by Victor Yakimov
What is nutritious, delicious, and has six legs? If we could collectively get over our disgust at the six legged critters, insects could become a staple of the human diet, along with fish, and other kinds of meat, a new UN report argues.
The Food and Agriculture organisation FAO hailed members of the insect world as an under-utilised resource, in the report which was released this Monday. By 2050, world population is slated to reach 9 billion, arable land is shrinking due to climate change, and oceans are increasingly overfished. Incorporating bugs into our diet could alleviate some of those problems, the report argues.
"Food we are currently consuming is artificially cheap. Negative environmental externalities aren't factored into food prices, and farm subsidies artificially lower prices. We are facing a crisis; if the price of meat was increased to reflect its true costs, people would be forced to consider alternative options.", says Afton Halloran, one of the paper's coauthors, a UCPH alumnus to the University Post.
>>By 2050, world population is slated to reach 9 billion, arable land is shrinking due to climate change<<
And yet when we produce perfectly safe genetically altered food that can produce yields far in excess of need, the un lets millions die.
Yes, un — go eat worms.
You first, elitist UN bureaucrats.
Bugs are actually an important part of the diets of many aboriginal cultures. Healthy, too. Didn’t John the Baptist eat locusts? I suppose it takes a bit of getting used to, however.
Oh my god, the aUN is advocating we eat one another! You read it hsre first, the one world government knows it is just a matter of time before us simpletons start resorting to cannibalism. Damn you global warming, damn you. Wait, what? :p
Stop sign at that phrase, as in "STOP READING THIS BS...
One roach burger,hold the larva.
I think it was a choice by John to show his dedication to his belief and not human material things of this world. I wonder if Jesus ever ate grasshoppers?
Start with the UN kitchen. No dining expense accounts.
LET THEM EAT BUGS!
I remember something about John the Baptist, honey and locusts. But bugs are not Kosher; was John born a Goy?
I thought that northern lands become more productive at that point?
Not kosher.
That would help with their Agenda 21 goal of reducing the Earth's human population by 85%!
I remember this same nonsense in the 1970s. Of course then it was because we were losing arable land due to the cooling temps.
Certain types of bugs are Kosher, others aren’t. I don’t know what the exact rules are, something about number of legs or something. Locusts are Kosher but beetles are not, I believe.
The biggest loss of farmland in the last 20 years has been tonew home construction.That has been driven by good people moving out of the socialist rotted cities and escaping the feral urbans.Personally,I haven’t lost one square foot of farmland to climate change.
Even though Jesus was a Jew...did the Jews of that time eat Kosher? Has the definition of what is Kosher changed in 2000 years?
The U.N. wants us to eat bugs, eh? Well at least that seems to be an improvement over the sh*t they usually feed us.
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