I have a really bad feeling about this.
Posted on 01/19/2016 2:13:00 PM PST by BenLurkin
Katharina Unger and Julia Kaisinger, 25 and 28, have developed a device to breed in the comfort of your own home the protein-rich grubs of the meal beetle, to then eat.
"With this current design you can make 200-500 grams (seven to 18 ounces) of mealworms every week," Unger told AFP at a recent tasting and fundraising event in Vienna.
"You freeze them and then you make them like any other type of meat. You can cook them, roast them, make them into burger patties and mix them into sauce for pasta," she said.
Into the top of the sleek, white "desktop hive" go pupae which then hatch into adults. In the next section, the "love shack", the insects mate and their eggs fall into the next layer.
Helped by a controlled microclimate, the eggs hatch into larvae which gradually grow and descend to a drawer at the bottom where, around three centimetres (an inch) long and plump, they are "harvested".
"Our team eats them almost every day," Unger said, showing off some of her creations -- Greek salads topped by toasted grubs, quinoa-and-mealworm meatballs and even chocolate (and worm) cake.
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I would love some inexpensive and readily available Mexican grasshoppers for Orthodox Lenten tacos, but don’t think I could eat mealworms.
What we always stock up on when the occasional fledgling falls out of its nest.
And if we’re lucky, we get to it before the ferocious feline field mouse catcher does.
Heh!
I have a really bad feeling about this.
Ewwwww!
>> All the cruelty of slaughtering intelligent mammals like cows and pigs, the savage butchery of chickens and turkeys, will stop.
Worms have feelings, too.
Used to be a saying; “The rich eat beef, poor eat pork, slaves eat chicken, and French eat horse.”
Now it will be; “Elites eat meat, everyone else eats bugs and grass.”
>> the protein-rich grubs of the meal beetle
“Honey, how ‘bout you go in the kitchen and rustle me up some grub?”
That is indeed the future. If things keep on the present course.
Awesome.
>> I know insects are very high in protein
but so are pigs, chickens, lambs, and cattle. And fish.
And unlike grubs, GOD made those out of tasty MEAT! Just for us!
God made grubs out of “yuck” precisely so we WOULDN’T eat them.
Edgar may want a word with the people in charge of this idea...
Yes. Another elite induced famine.
These are great for chickens, they love em and the chickens and eggs taste better.
Eat up!
lol
That actually looks pretty good. Reminds me of Chinese noodles.
I love capitalism. People come up with an idea, work hard to get it out there, and let the market decide.
I don’t know if I’ll ever have the desire to get behind this, but I know my daughter will. She *loves* spicy fried worms. Total addict. I can definitely see this in her kitchen.
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