Skip to comments.
Eat Bugs To Save The Planet
The Daily Beast ^
| July 11, 2015
| Johnny Adamic
Posted on 07/12/2015 3:00:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41 next last
To: 2ndDivisionVet
21
posted on
07/12/2015 5:18:47 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: rlmorel
“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.
22
posted on
07/12/2015 5:19:21 AM PDT
by
Slambat
To: driftdiver
“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. :)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
NO. No, not even for Mother Earth. I get all the insects I need from canned and processed food, thank you.
24
posted on
07/12/2015 5:41:08 AM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(No punishment is too great for the man who builds his greatness upon his country's ruin.G.Washington)
To: Shimmer1
Every day I see more proof that LIBeralism is a mental disease.
25
posted on
07/12/2015 5:45:51 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
26
posted on
07/12/2015 5:48:42 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I've got their planetary resources right here.
27
posted on
07/12/2015 5:56:32 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.
28
posted on
07/12/2015 6:01:38 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
When I see ‘Food Network’ show us how to prepare bugs to eat, I’ll believe eating bugs will save the planet.
29
posted on
07/12/2015 6:04:09 AM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: exDemMom
“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.
30
posted on
07/12/2015 6:06:17 AM PDT
by
IMR 4350
To: 2ndDivisionVet
When the “dead broke” former Twelfth Lady starts eating bugs I will as well.
To: Slambat
MY sentiments exactly.
Lead by example!
32
posted on
07/12/2015 6:24:01 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
33
posted on
07/12/2015 6:28:54 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: P.O.E.
It is not a good idea to eat bugs, at least that are whole bugs. Humans do not have a chitinase, an enzyme that breaks down the chitin which is what the crunchy outside shell of the bugs are made from.
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
34
posted on
07/12/2015 6:46:39 AM PDT
by
Battle Axe
(Repent: for the coming of the Lord is soon.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Eating bugs is just another stupid fad for our liberal regressives. Best to ignore them.
35
posted on
07/12/2015 7:02:10 AM PDT
by
abclily
To: Battle Axe
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.
36
posted on
07/12/2015 7:20:39 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
And overpopulation? Again? Didnt the Ehrlich/Simon bet settle this once and for all? I thought Malthus had been proven wrong a few hundred years ago. Ehrlich is late to the game if you ask me.
37
posted on
07/12/2015 7:36:16 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: Battle Axe
It is not a good idea to eat bugs, at least that are whole bugs. Humans do not have a chitinase, an enzyme that breaks down the chitin which is what the crunchy outside shell of the bugs are made from. 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.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.
38
posted on
07/12/2015 7:59:09 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: rlmorel
I would avoid patting them on the head. Who knows what kind of bugs might be feeding on them.
39
posted on
07/12/2015 8:31:54 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: jmcenanly
40
posted on
07/12/2015 8:43:43 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.Buy into it,)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson