Posted on 08/15/2017 9:24:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Full headline: Would you eat a burger made from INSECTS? Mealworm-based food line set to hit grocery stores in Switzerland next week
Switzerland's second-largest supermarket chain, Coop, announced it would begin selling an insect burger, and insect balls, based on protein-rich mealworm.
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Swiss food safety laws were changed last May to allow for the sale of food items containing three types of insects: crickets, grasshoppers and mealworms, which are the larval form of the mealworm beetle.
These insects, long used in animal feed, must be bred under strict supervision for four generations before they are considered appropriate for human consumption, according to Swiss law.
Local production will thus take a few months to get started.
In the meantime, imports are possible under strict conditions - the insects must be raised in accordance with the Swiss requirements at a company submitted to inspections by national food safety authorities.
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Insects as a food source are a good source of protein, vitamins, fats and essential minerals, and there is also a case for rearing insects for food as it could be more environmentally friendly than other forms of animal protein production.
The production of greenhouse gases by most insects is likely to be lower than that of conventional livestock - for example, pigs produce 10-100 times more greenhouse gases per kg of weight than mealworms.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They’re going to have to change the old saying to “Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Make him eat the bait, and he’ll probably barf on your shoes.”
Most of us have already eating food made with insects.
The vast majority of red food coloring and the bulk of the red coloring in lipstick is made from cochineal. Cochineal insects are soft-bodied, flat, oval-shaped scale insects about 5mm in length.
You can have mine .
Anyone who eats fast food regularly probably has already eaten insects.
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we already do...feds allow a certain amount of insects\poop in our food.
https://www.livescience.com/51123-gross-things-food-insects-mold-poop.html
Kobe Maggot burger...
Would you like flies with that?
not unless I was starving... which isn’t a likely scenario.
Paging Bear Grylls.
This is all about you have “less and less” while your globalist gods and masters have more and more. You’re being dog trained.
In that case, I must be part cow, pig and chicken. For starters.
Actually this whole revulsion thing over eating insects is culture-based. There are some cultures that would be sickened by the thought of eating a lobster (which itself sort of looks like a giant cockroach), yet we treat it as a delicacy.
My grandmother used to call seafood like clams, shrimp and scallops "bottom feeders" and was disgusted that I would put such dirty creatures into my belly. But I love my clams, shrimp and scallops!
I too am sickened by the thought of eating insects but I'm thinking I could learn to like them if I put my mind to it. If prepared properly, they could actually be quite tasty.
Most people would be shocked at the types of foreign matter the gov’t allows in their food.
Only if they’re free-range and gluten free.
No, I would not, and I know all about the protein $hit. No. Bats, birds and frogs do quite well with the bugs. Not me. And don’t ask again.
Not just no, but hell no.
I recall an obscure article from not too long ago where a vegetarian activist said we’d all be eating mealworms soon “for your own good”.
Apparently eating beef and chicken is contributing to “global warming” or some BS like that.
Lol.
I’ve eaten cheese covered mealworms. No big deal
Bobs Grubs and Berries
(Far Side)
How can a veggie advocate eating worms? Does the animal have to be warm cute and fuzzy before they say no?
Dried meal worms are chicken Crack for my hens.
Dunno.
I think he was trying to be “clever”.
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