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Posted on 01/13/2017 8:28:22 AM PST by Red Badger
WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) -- At Tomorrow's Harvest farm, you won't find acres of land on which animals graze, or rows of corn, or bales of hay. Just stacks of boxes in a basement and the summery song of thousands of chirping crickets.
It's one of a growing number of operations raising crickets for human consumption that these farmers say is more ecologically sound than meat but acknowledge is sure to bug some people out.
Once consumers get beyond the ick factor, they say, there are a lot of benefits to consuming bugs.
"We don't need everybody to eat insects," said Robert Nathan Allen, founder and director of Little Herds, an educational nonprofit in Austin, Texas, that promotes the use of insects for human food and animal feed. "The point we really like to highlight with the education is that if only a small percent of people add this to their diet, there's a huge environmental impact."
Cricket fans say if only 1 percent of the U.S. population substituted even just 1 percent of their meat consumption with insects, millions of gallons of water in drinking and irrigation would be saved, along with thousands of metric tons of greenhouse-gas emissions from machinery and animals.
At least one study finds the claims overstated that crickets are a viable protein source to supplement or replace meat, but bottom line, it generally takes fewer resources to raise and harvest crickets than, say, cattle.
Interest in entomophagy - the consumption of insects - was fueled in part by a 2013 report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on the viability of edible insects to help curb world hunger.
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Well there's your problem. You haven't properly butchered the cricket carcass. You remove the meat from the husk.
Let Bill Gates & wife, Leonardo dicaprio & other big green celebrities eat them first. We common people just want to eat common foods such as fish.
“millions of gallons of water in drinking and irrigation would be saved, “
A red herring.
If the water is available then not using it just means it flows into the sea - is evaporated back out and falls as rain. If you don’t live in a desert or worse a city built in one and there is no shortage of water then there is no need to conserve it.
Does he think that by saving water in Austin a spring is going to well up in Somalia?
Did you ever see a horsehair worm come out of a cricket after you killed it? Trust me, it isn’t pretty. For that reason, I don’t even use them for bait!
Do you harvest with shotgun or rifle (caliber, scoped?)?
Are their seasons or bag limits?
Does Deere, make a harvester, for the process?
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The big question is, do human emissions increase after eating crickets?
The fake stream media always turns to crickets on slow news days when killer sunspots, killer bees, beehive failure, coffee crop failure and chocolate crop failure have already been used too many times recently.
My cats can verify free-range crickets are very tasty.
Lampasas, TX gets (or used to) invaded with crickets every year. Ooohhhhh! Talk about the stink! You can’t walk down the school hallway without crunch, crunch, crunch. The janitors would sweep 24/7 huge piles and it did not good. It was awful. I was raised on a farm and NOTHING smells as bad as thousands of crickets. Anyone thinking about going into the cricket business better think twice.
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This is all about conditioning people.
Exactly so..................
Yes, they vomit a lot..............
Fly larva...............IOW, MAGGOTS!........................
Please feed my portion to the chickens.
I’ll eat the chicken.
> One of the boys in my Cub Scouts den likes cricket-protein bars.
Of course he does. He’s probably 10 yo. At that age boys compete with each other for who can perform the ickier deed.
Thank you, that’s what I was talking about, great picture. More protein in the damned worm than in the cricket.
8 years old. At one meeting, we handed bits around to various adults without telling them what it was. Nobody disliked it.
55 gallons of dead Florida Cockroaches, which I personally had to remove from a telephone UG manhole!
Killed on midnight Friday and removed Monday AM.
Occasionally the odor comes to mind. The same as human decomposition!
Fried crickets are very tasty, and I always order them when on the menu. I do this not to save water or out of concern for cows, or to “save” the environment, but because they really taste good.
When on the menu?....Where in heck do you eat?.....................
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