Posted on 07/12/2015 3:00:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We’re a month away from going over budget in using this year’s planetary resources. One way to balance our ecological books is to eat more insects.
By mid-summer of each year, we use up the Earth.
Known as Earth Overshoot Day, it’s the day, sometime in August, when our yearly demand for ecological resources exceeds how much the planet can replenish those resources for the year. Soon after August 15, this year, Earth will be operating on a deficit.
All the while, the population of Earth is growing. It’s estimated there will be 9 billion people by 2050, an additional 2 billion than now.
That’s a lot of mouths to feed.
The question is, can the Earth’s resources handle the increase in food production required for all these people? Probably not.
So, what’s the solution? Bugs.
Since 2003, various media outlets have been reporting how our food system is expanding beyond livestock, chicken, and fish to include insects. And entomophagy, the act of gulping down squishy, slimy, slithery bugs, is now very much a thing....
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
SOYLENT GREEN IS PURPLE!
“We can watch and pat them on the head.”
Someone please tell me why they haven’t drank the coolaid yet. If they really want to do the world a favor then
why don’t they exit it today.
“We’d better get out in front of this or we’ll be eating flies in 20 years..”
Or the flies will be eating us. :)
NO. No, not even for Mother Earth. I get all the insects I need from canned and processed food, thank you.
Every day I see more proof that LIBeralism is a mental disease.
If environmentalists stop stonewalling on GMOs and plant foods with higher yields, we can feed everyone AND have more land set aside for housing or conservation. If they hadn’t stymied golden rice on all-natural bias, a few million kids in Asia wouldn’t be blind from vitamin A deficiency either.
But instead of using better versions of current crops, they want us to go vegetarian, eat bugs and ideally die without children.
I can visualize those Daily Beast filthy hippies sitting cross legged on the ground out on the Veldt picking parasites off their neighbors and eating them.
As for myself? I’ve evolved.
When I see ‘Food Network’ show us how to prepare bugs to eat, I’ll believe eating bugs will save the planet.
“Seriously? How on earth was it determined that the earth is “operating on a deficit”? What is that even supposed to mean?’
Sounds like it refers to no new crops being planted in the northern part of the world simply because WINTER is on it’s way.
When the “dead broke” former Twelfth Lady starts eating bugs I will as well.
MY sentiments exactly.
Lead by example!
Kids in Africa will gather around streetlights and gulp down grasshoppers/locust that are swarming. If they eat too many they can get the legs caught in their intestines.
But if Mooschelle wants to fillet out some cockroaches and stir them up with some garlic butter......go right ahead. She will get fatter!! Bugs have a lot of fat especially the ones ripe with eggs ready to lay.
There are a lot of good bugs, so don't kill them all. But you need to spend 24 years in school learning which are good and which are bad. It was fun but I wouldn't do it again.
BA
Eating bugs is just another stupid fad for our liberal regressives. Best to ignore them.
The only bugs I kill are the ants & wasps that get into the house.
We had a grub infestation sometime back but I used milk spore to combat them.
I thought Malthus had been proven wrong a few hundred years ago. Ehrlich is late to the game if you ask me.
I believe it's the same material as crab and shrimp shells. The issue is resolvable via deep frying. I suspect the real practical application is for deep space travel.
I would avoid patting them on the head. Who knows what kind of bugs might be feeding on them.
<<”shudder”>>
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