Posted on 07/05/2019 8:14:47 PM PDT by House Atreides
In one year, a single acre of black soldier fly larvae can produce more protein than 3,000 acres of cattle or 130 acres of soybeans. Such yields, combined with the need to find cheap, reliable protein for a global population projected to jump 30 per cent, to 9.8 billion by 2050, present big opportunity for the black soldier fly. The United Nations, which already warns that animal-rich diets cannot stretch that far long term, is encouraging governments and businesses to turn to insects to fulfill the planet’s protein needs.
People who’ve seen what black soldier fly larvae can do often speak of them in evangelical tones. Jeff Tomberlin, a professor of entomology at Texas A&M University, said the bug industry could “save lives, stabilize economies, create jobs and protect the environment.”
“There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be doing this at some scale throughout the world,” he said.
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Let the UN try it on the hungry Venezuelan people?
Then on the hungry African and South American and Asian people.
Have the UN report back, in 50 yeara or more, on how successful that ‘experiment’ was and how healthy and happy those people became.
For some reason modern humans have stopped eating insects, even though it was once an important part of our diets. Still, does it have to be maggots?
“Be fruitful and multiply.”
Funny our Leaders don’t feel the first half of that applies to them...
My fish cousin says mealworms are good.
Yeah, no. You go first.
Who believes these assholes anyway? Predictions are always difficult, especially about the future. /s
Like in 1989 - the sea level would rise 3 feet, coastal areas inundated no later than year 2000
Although I wouldn’t mind testing flies for feedstock to lower animals. Fish would be appropriate certainly.
Off-planet there may be a need to invent new ecologies.
If successful, it would quickly lead to doubling the world population to 18 billion.
I remember in the late 60s when the Interstate 270 circumferential road opened around St. Louis. The officials claimed that traffic jambs were cured for forty years. Of course, the developers quickly built out all the newly accessible land with mammoth subdivisions and within a couple years things were as bad as ever.
The population always has a tendency to expand to consume available resources.
They make great feed for chickens and fish. And you can grow them from just about anything organic, including food waste. Don’t eat the maggots, feed them to chicken and fish and then feast on them.
Be my guest, all who are so inclined. Bon appetit. Not for me.
Maybe in 50 years, people will pay top prices to eat maggots in restaurants.
I will never eat fly larvae. Never.
Maybe someone should show Africa how to grow food so they can stop leeching off of us
9 billion people, oh noes- that’s likely to take up bout 1/100’th of the earth- whatever will we do- we’re running out of room!
“To fill up the entire earth’s 148,940,000 km squared land area it would fit 148,940,000,000,000 people (148.94 trillion), or 21,000x more than today’s 7 billion population.”
if we put everyone in the world today, shoulder to shoulder, they would all fit in Rhode island-
The world is nowhere near close to running out of room or resources-
Make it taste like a Porterhouse and put on the bibs!
so how many thousands of tons of organic crap would have to be hauled to that “acre” during that year for their feed, and where would those thousands of tons of organic crap come from each year?
Hogwash. They have to feed on something, where does that come from? Think about it. Their feed comes from somewhere; did these “reputable scientists” consider that into the equation?
Beetle larvae, I can see that. But flies? They’re disgusting insects. Sorry if I don’t know what a fish cousin is.
If I got hungry enough I could eat people that ate maggots, but eat maggots myself? Nope, not happening.
A cousin that drinks too much.
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