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Maggots are the answer to feeding a human population that's heading to nine billion people
National Post ^
| July 3, 2019
| Christopher Ingraham
Posted on 07/05/2019 8:14:47 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: 21twelve
Good post.
These neo-malthusans keep ignoring the fact that people create wealth of all kinds - including food.
Starvation happens in socialist societies where people are no longer allowed to create wealth.
Case in point: Venezuela is rich, but the people starve.
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posted on
07/06/2019 1:59:15 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
(Please pray for Pope Benedict XVI)
To: House Atreides
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.Raciss, again we white men are taking advantage of black soldiers.
To: House Atreides
Do they produce methane farts?
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posted on
07/06/2019 4:03:13 AM PDT
by
airborne
(I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
To: House Atreides
First you eat them, then when you die, they eat you...wonder how they go with BBQ sauce...
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posted on
07/06/2019 4:06:35 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: Quality_Not_Quantity
To: House Atreides
I have to admit, the headline made me think it was going to be some Swiftian “Modest Proposal” type article.
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posted on
07/06/2019 5:39:17 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(“Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts.”)
To: House Atreides
I swear I wasn’t born a day too early.
To: House Atreides
The UN has always been about reducing the population of the overpopulated earth... why would anyone listen to anything they say about the well being of humanity.
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posted on
07/06/2019 6:06:45 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: House Atreides
When that day comes, I’ll convert to being a vegan.
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posted on
07/06/2019 6:21:12 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: Telepathic Intruder
For some reason modern humans have stopped eating insects
Maybe it was because they found that steak and lobster tasted better.........or not.
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posted on
07/06/2019 6:23:53 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
To: House Atreides
Is it "Eat a Bug" day again? About once a month some international organization plays the role of a playground bully by holding a big squirmy bug in front of us and telling us to eat it.
If I eat a bug it better have lived its life under salt water (some exceptions allowed for fresh water bugs in New Oreleans cooking).
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posted on
07/06/2019 6:46:22 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Who's the leader of the club that feeds on dead babies? M-O-L... O-C-H... M-O-U-S-E.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
"The population always has a tendency to expand to consume available resources."Universal truth. Like rearranging your garage to make space, somehow it fills itself - quickly.
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posted on
07/06/2019 6:51:21 AM PDT
by
HangThemHigh
(Entropy is not what it used to be.)
To: House Atreides
(from the article):" 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 planets protein needs."
When the United Nations starts serving only insects in their cafeteria, then will I listen to what they say.
Anything short of that is hypocrisy !!
The U.N. has already out-lived its usefulness,
and represents the International Deep State.
To: House Atreides
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posted on
07/06/2019 7:36:33 AM PDT
by
MarMema
(breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
To: Hot Tabasco
Actually that’s probably close to the mark. With agriculture, foraging for food became unnecessary. So when you want your occasional meat in addition to bread, are you going to roll over dead logs looking for grubs or just kill a chicken or pig? The latter taste better and there’s less work.
To: 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... Soylent Black?
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posted on
07/06/2019 1:35:03 PM PDT
by
The Duke
(President Trump = America's Last, Best Chance)
To: House Atreides
The only insect or bug that is allowed in Leviticus is a species of locust. However the exact species is unknown.
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posted on
07/06/2019 7:15:55 PM PDT
by
LukeL
To: House Atreides
Well, the maggots have to feed on a constant supply of protein themselves, so if we are to supplant all those cows and pig and sheep to feed the maggots, I guess the readiest supply will be acres of dead humans—hopefully passed peacefully at the end of their natural life and not according to some bureaucrats assessment of need.
Welcome to the world of Soylent Green.
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posted on
07/07/2019 1:04:40 PM PDT
by
wildbill
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