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CNN Wants You to Eat Bugs to Save the Planet
Townhall.com ^ | December 12, 2018 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 12/12/2018 8:39:27 AM PST by Kaslin

The world has found itself in a “mammoth environmental crisis,” and we will all have to dramatically alter our diets to reduce our impact on the Earth, CNN argues in a story advocating replacing beef consumption with bug consumption.

Discussing the UK’s new “bleeding” burger that is not made from meat, CNN has laid out a few options for getting away from “greenhouse-gas-intensive foods such as beef and toward healthier and more sustainable diets.”

Here are some foods you can eat to reduce your beef intake https://t.co/BNMFUwil3j pic.twitter.com/ddmB4uWXEs— CNN (@CNN) December 9, 2018

Six-legged creatures already supplement the diets of 2 billion people in the world, predominantly in Asia, Africa and Latin America. But the trend is starting to creep into Western cuisine, with some restaurants offering insect-based menus and some mainstream European supermarkets starting to sell edible insect snacks or bug burgers.

Bug Foundation, a startup based in Germany, developed a burger made from mealworms that is now stocked in more than 1,000 supermarkets across Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

"If you compare insects with beef, for the same amount of protein, you need roughly 1,000 times less water, 10 times less feed and you emit up to 100 times less greenhouse gases," said Baris Özel, co-founder of Bug Foundation.

Springmann, who has carried out research on insects as an alternative to meat, agrees on the environmental benefits, but he is skeptical of the cost. "In high-income countries, insects are actually fairly expensive because they are such a niche product," he said. (CNN)

The article also recommended less extreme options, such as mixing meat with vegetables like mushrooms; replacing beef with chicken or pork; and ditching meat altogether.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: cnn; fnn
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1 posted on 12/12/2018 8:39:27 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I want CNN to eat something else... And die.


2 posted on 12/12/2018 8:41:06 AM PST by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: Kaslin

*crickets*


3 posted on 12/12/2018 8:41:29 AM PST by null and void (We live in interesting times, but nobody's interested.)
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To: Kaslin

I’ll eat bugs when CNN pounds sand


4 posted on 12/12/2018 8:42:16 AM PST by albie
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To: Kaslin

Remember Ted Turner bought huge tracts of western land so that they would be closed to cattle ranching. Nothing new with CNN. They have always been lunatics.


5 posted on 12/12/2018 8:42:24 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: Kaslin

I used to get a buck on the playground for eating a bug.


6 posted on 12/12/2018 8:42:43 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Kaslin

I have eaten bugs, and snakes. Sometimes you have too.


7 posted on 12/12/2018 8:42:47 AM PST by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: Kaslin; tx_eggman

I gave up bugs for Lent, then lost my taste for them.


8 posted on 12/12/2018 8:42:51 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: real saxophonist

Right on! EAT IT CNN!


9 posted on 12/12/2018 8:43:07 AM PST by vmpolesov
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To: Kaslin

“and ditching meat altogether”

so, CNN is advocating killing us all via B-12 deficiency ...


10 posted on 12/12/2018 8:46:10 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Huskrrrr

Dang it!

I always underbid.


11 posted on 12/12/2018 8:48:07 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kaslin

And by “you” CNN does NOT mean the likes of Hillary, Algore, or the people who run the UN.

They will continue to dine on the finest foods known to man.


12 posted on 12/12/2018 8:51:52 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

Guess they missed the part about bugs playing a roll in the overall scheme of things.


13 posted on 12/12/2018 8:52:04 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ASA Vet

Note To Self:

Send regrets to ASA Vet that you won’t be attending his Christmas Dinner Party.


14 posted on 12/12/2018 8:53:19 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kaslin

Just how big is a locust steak?


15 posted on 12/12/2018 8:53:58 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: Kaslin

Protect Your Sandwich With The Lunch Bugs Anti-theft Lunch Bag


16 posted on 12/12/2018 8:57:24 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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To: Kaslin

Eat chit CNN..


17 posted on 12/12/2018 8:57:46 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Kaslin
"Scientists have calculated that termites alone produce ten times as much carbon dioxide as all the fossil fuels burned"

Terminate the termites and this imaginary problem is solved.

18 posted on 12/12/2018 9:00:12 AM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Kaslin

They should lead by example and require their on-air personalities to constantly munch bugs while they are broadcasting. This way, everyone can see how good and beneficial this actually is.

They should also require them to walk to work, live in 200 square foot housing, $15 per hour wage and everything else they claim would be good for us.


19 posted on 12/12/2018 9:00:23 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: Huskrrrr; blueunicorn6
And to put it in a different light, now, what about that Aussie that just died from eating a slug(?) about 10 years ago?

It was a 17 year-old's "Here, hold me wine" moment. Unfortunately, the bug carried the rat-lungworm disease, causing extensive and paralyzing nerve damage.

20 posted on 12/12/2018 9:01:06 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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