Posted on 06/19/2016 7:01:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Cricket Shelter is a spiky plastic 'cave', that can be used to create a modular farm.
Designed by New York non-profit organisation Terreform ONE, the structure is designed to provide a sustainable source of food and shelter in regions feeling the pinch from food crises, changing climate and economic upheaval.
The shelters can be used individually or stacked together in sequence, forming a line of bug-farming caves.
Once the farm is up and running, the insects can be harvested as and when they're needed, before they are dried and ground into flour, which contains up to three times the protein of steak.
The designers say: 'In an advanced economic setting, this farm can introduce a sophisticated and ultra-sanitary method of locally harvesting insects for the production of cricket flour in fine cuisine recipes.'
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Why would I eat crickets...I’m not a bream...
I don’t even like broccoli.
In order to leave enough beef for the Clintons and Zuckerbergs of the world to dine on in their air conditioned mansions.
You might want to try these...They don’t make as much noise.
Do they make the same crunch sound as when you step on them?
. . . the popcorn of the future. Would you like more butter with that?
Wondering, however, what insect they will use for ‘butter’.
Sauteed in butter and garlic... Solves everything.
Have you ever eaten ramps???
Send this link to Venezuela. They would appreciate it.
I’ll just happily eat my Soylent Green as allocated to me by our overlords....
Humans clawed their way to the top of the food chain for this?
“Before they are dried and ground into flour.”
Including the gut contents,no thank you.
Only if the Crickets come in small flavorless capsules.
I don’t want Captian Crunch for Breakfast- NEW! with Crickets!!”
Heck, I can get that now, just by leaving the box on the back porch overnight ... and with the added flavor of spiders and centipedes.
I was in Pennsylvania in 87, doing family tree research. Have a photo of a cicada in my gg grandfathers grave. On local TV. All kinds of recipes. Pizza topping?LOL.
Besides the cricket munchy, crunchy lunch farm, the organization has also grown a "mushroom chair" as one of its projects....perhaps part of a near-future where fungi will be cultivated to be made into furniture for the downtrodden.
I wonder how much this group receives in federal taxpayers' grants. At least we know they're pulling down good salaries all the while excused from corporate taxes while the companies WE work for have to pay through the nose.
Leni
For those of you turning your nose up at this, let me say that I had crickets in Taiwan back in the 80s. The most amazing thing was they tasted like BACON.
I don’t know if it was the seasoning/sauce or the type of cricket or the fact they were popping like popcorn in the covered pan, but they darn well tasted like BACON.
And no I wasn’t drinking as I was under 21 and couldn’t on the study trip I was on.
Lol. Yes. Our cat was a fan of the big black ones and it sounded like she was eating potato chips.
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