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 ...
No thanks, my ancestors left Africa a long time ago. I choose not to live like a primitive.
They could call it EBT! Eating Bugs Together! Heyyyyyyy!
I have an idea, let’s start with..........
I’ll eat things that eat bugs.
Will that make them happy.
Rumor has it that Michelle Obama wants to introduce her Buggy Brownies to unsuspecting school kids. As if they aren’t throwing enough Healthy Lunches in the trash already.
Let the liberal, global warmers eat the bugs first.
The idea of “saving the planet” for the sake of the planet is very strange. The planet doesn’t care if it’s “saved” or not.
And “overpopulation”? Again? Didn’t the Ehrlich/Simon bet settle this once and for all?
Really? By whom? Until just now, I had never heard of this notion. It sounds like it was made up by a social studies major, and has little resemblance to anything that actually exists.
...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.
Seriously? How on earth was it determined that the earth is "operating on a deficit"? What is that even supposed to mean?
This article reads like a typical nonsensical socialist screed. It is meant to frighten those who feel their way to every decision (i.e. typical leftists). The way it is written almost sounds like it was based on some scientific principle--that is, until you examine it critically and realize that it is making claims for which there is no concrete evidence. To those who are incapable of rational thought, it probably sounds all sciency. But it isn't.
How about we kill a billion Muslims instead?
Norman Borlaug disproved this hoax.
...and liberals...and filthy hippies...
"damn why those reporters have to follow us EVERYWHERE we go, Barry"?
Then, prove that bugs are considered good food by reducing EBT allowances according to the number of bugs in an establishment....
>>> We’re a month away from going over budget in using this year’s planetary resources. <<<<
THAT, my FRiends, is one of the dumbest thing ever to print out. I bet the author though, thought it profound.
20 years ago I would never have imagined they’d ‘normalize’ the things they have.
We’d better get out in front of this or we’ll be eating flies in 20 years.
Wait, what if bugs are RACISTS?!? I mean, look at ants, do they mix colonies? It’s not like they aren’t all ants or something, it’s segregation - do red ants mix with black ants? No they don’t! They are ant supremacists! We can’t be eating little racists, can we?
Just sayin’...sorry but bugs are off the menu.
The envioronuts and liberals can all eat bugs and eschew cars.
We can watch and pat them on the head.
“By mid-summer of each year, we use up the Earth.”
That’s a lie.
“Eat Bugs To Save The Planet”
And get tapeworms and/or other intestinal parasites which just
so happens to be the liberal mascot.
The world they are bringing in will be “vegetarian only”
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