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Locusts; They need to start collecting and drying them if they want to avoid starvation!.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust

As food

Locusts are edible insects. Several cultures throughout the world consume insects, and locusts are considered a delicacy and eaten in many African, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries. They have been used as food throughout history.[53]

They can be cooked in many ways, but are often fried, smoked, or dried.[54] The Bible records that John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey (Greek: ἀκρίδες καὶ μέλι ἄγριον, romanized: akrides kai meli agrion) while living in the wilderness.[55] Attempts have been made to explain the locusts as some ascetic vegetarian food such as carob beans, but the plain meaning of akrides is the insects.[56][57]

The Torah, although disallowing the use of most insects as food, permits the consumption of certain locusts; specifically, the red, the yellow, the spotted grey, and the white are considered permissible.[58][59] In Islamic jurisprudence, eating locusts is considered halal.[60][59] The Islamic prophet, Muhammad, was reported to have eaten locusts during a military raid with his companions.[61]

Locusts are eaten in the Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia,[62] where consumption of locusts spiked around Ramadan especially in the Al-Qassim Region in 2014, since many Saudis believe they are healthy to eat. The Saudi Ministry of Health warned that pesticides they used against the locusts made them unsafe.[63][64] Yemenis also consume locusts, and expressed discontent over governmental plans to use pesticides to control them.[65] ʻAbd al-Salâm Shabînî described a locust recipe from Morocco.[66] 19th century European travellers observed Arabs in Arabia, Egypt, and Morocco selling, cooking, and eating locusts.[67] They reported that in Egypt and Palestine locusts were consumed.[68] They reported that in Palestine, around the River Jordan, in Egypt, in Arabia, and in Morocco that Arabs ate locusts, while Syrian peasants did not eat locusts.

In the Haouran region, Fellahs who were in poverty and suffered from famine ate locusts after removing the guts and head, while locusts were swallowed wholesale by Bedouins.[69] Syrians, Copts, Greeks, Armenians, and other Christians and Arabs themselves reported that in Arabia locusts were eaten frequently and one Arab described to a European traveler the different types of locusts which were favored as food by Arabs.[70][71] Persians use the Anti-Arab racial slur "Arabe malakh-khor" (Persian: عرب ملخ خور‎, literally Arab locust eater) against Arabs.[72][73][74][75]

Locusts yield about five times more edible protein per unit of fodder than cattle, and produce lower levels of greenhouse gases in the process.[76] The feed conversion rate of orthopterans is 1.7 kg/kg,[77] while for beef it is typically about 10 kg/kg.[78] The protein content in fresh weight is between 13–28 g/100g for adult locust, 14–18 g/100g for larvae, as compared to 19–26 g/100g for beef.[79][80] The calculated protein efficiency ratio is low, with 1.69 for locust protein compared to 2.5 for standard casein.[81] A serving of 100 g of desert locust provides 11.5 g of fat, 53.5% of which is unsaturated, and 286 mg of cholesterol.[81] Among the fatty acids, palmitoleic, oleic and linolenic acids were found to be the most abundant. Varying amounts of potassium, sodium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc were present.[81]

NOT a food slide! Prepper info, Middle east and African culture and current events, we learned a Persian insult to use on Arabs (Arabe malakh-khor), had a general discussion on Biblical Plagues and EOW stuff. We learned that Locusts are "Greener" than cattle, and while not a U.S. problem yet, it will be at sometime.