Posted on 12/23/2020 9:05:08 AM PST by USA Conservative
A new report by Barclays cites the expanding market around the alternative protein source and predicts the edible bug industry could be worth $8 billion by 2030, up from a little under $1 billion last year.
The product is already found in experimental cuisines and boasts an “eco-friendly” reputation. But it has yet to go mainstream as Americans still prefer meat over bugs.
Well, our government seems to be in doubt about that as they spend $1,327,781.72 of your tax dollars to see if you’ll eat ground-up bugs.
Below you can see a partial list of where your taxpayer money is going:
Wasting Americans’ tax dollars, the federal government… ¾ Studied if you’ll eat ground-up bugs (NIH & NIFA) ….…….………………….…………. $1,327,781.72 ¾ Asks why stress makes hair turn grey (NIH) …………………………………………………………. $36,831,620.00 ¾ Tries to get Eastern Mediterranean youth to stop smoking hookah (NIH) ……………… $1,471,617.00 ¾ Used cancer research money to create a “smart toilet” (NIH) ………………………………… $6,973,057.00 ¾ Tried to get adults to stop watching so much TV (NIH) …………………………………………. $1,246,507.00 ¾ Gives cigarettes to adolescent kids (NIH) …………………………………………………………………. $896,994.00 ¾ Sent messages to moms to stop their teenage girls from indoor tanning (NIH) ……….. $3,452,234.00 ¾ Funded an allegedly faked study linking e-cigarettes to heart attacks (NIH) ………….. $31,522,224.00 ¾ Interviewed San Franciscans about their edible cannabis use (NIH) ……………………….. $3,125,768.00 ¾ Gave federal employees duplicative Medicare customer service access (RRB) …….. $217,000,000.00 ¾ Tested if hot tubbing can lower stress (NIH) ……………………………………………………… $2,004,704.00 ¾ Develops a master’s degree in research ethics in Myanmar (NIH) …………………….. $968,932.00 ¾ Helps justify the FDA’s Deeming Rule (NIH) ..…………………………………………… $3,696,770.00 ¾ Appropriated millions to the Urban Indian Health Programs (Congress) ……………… $57,684,000.00 ¾ Tries to help people get over their fears of going to the dentist (NIH) …………………….. $1,039,554.00 ¾ Studied the prevalence of party drug use at NYC clubs and raves (NIH) …………………. $1,454,217.00 ¾ Waited for years on delinquent undelivered orders (VA) ………………………………….. $3,496,302,352.00 ¾ Studied the effect of sleepiness on diet, physical activity, and obesity in kids (NIH) …… $787,355.00 ________________________________ TAXPAYER DOLLARS WASTED: $3,867,785,236.72
How appetizing does cricket powder sound? How about if it were cooked into a pumpkin spice muffin or a chocolate shake? Researchers at Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan1 set out to answer those questions using federal grants totaling $1,327,781.72 to do it.2 The grants came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).3 As part of a study entitled Impact of Edible Cricket Consumption on Gut Microbiota in Healthy Adults, a Double-blind, Randomized Crossover Trial, the researchers split 20 healthy adults into two groups. The first group was asked to eat a pumpkin spice muffin and a chocolate shake, both with cricket powder, for breakfast for two weeks, while the second group ate regular muffins and shakes.4 They did not change any another aspect of their diets.5 After two weeks of that, both groups had a two-week cooling off period, a “washout period,” and then they switched places.6 The first group had normal muffins and shakes for breakfast, while the group two had the cricket-infused muffins and shakes.7 The goal of the research was to test the effects on gut microbiota composition while assessing safety and tolerability.”8 But why did the researchers think this the research was necessary? The researchers believed “the current pressures on global food security, including climate change … have ignited a search for more environmentally sustainable protein sources.”9 Got to find a protein substitute when the Green New Deal environmentalists kill all the farting cows! Instead of testing Americans’ appetite for cricket powder, the NIH and NIFA should have trusted the private sector, which has filled the market need to be created by those who opt not to eat animal protein, and done so much better then the government could hope if this study is any indication of what NIH’s plan is. Two businesses have become staples for many trying to skip the animal while keeping the protein. One company, which produces a plant-based meat substitute is worth about $4.5 billion. 10 Meanwhile, a competitor completed another round of funding this year, in which it raised $500 million and received a valuation of $2 billion.11 Needless to say, it seems Americans have made their choice regarding what they’ll eat for protein instead of beef, and it’s not crickets. But, as it so often does, the federal government ignored private-sector developments.
In the end, the participants did not know when they were eating crickets. Therefore, the question of “will people knowingly eat cricket powder?” remains unanswered, despite that being a the fundamental question underlying the worth of the study as a whole. If people can eat crickets, that doesn’t answer the question of whether they will choose to or not. If only Jiminy Cricket decided to be these researchers’ conscience, and not just Pinocchio’s. He definitely could have convinced them not to waste Americans’ money this way.
Yes, $1,327,781.72
That was $1,327,781.72
$1,327,781.72, correct.
For now.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
The way the two political parties are fleecing us all we may soon be happy to eat bugs.
With or without ketchup?
Instead of meat, they are giving us burgers made of “plane material.” We can only flush our toilets will a quart of water. Shower heads just let out a little mist. Cars are smaller, and don’t go as fast.
Next, they’ll substitute coffee for “erstatz coffee” - some wood savings and a little dirt.
Our masters are giving us less and less, and charging us more and more, while using social media to tell us things are getting better.
Instead of meat, they are giving us burgers made of “plant material.” We can only flush our toilets with a quart of water. Shower heads just let out a little mist. Cars are smaller, and don’t go as fast.
Next, they’ll substitute coffee for “erstatz coffee” - some wood savings and a little dirt.
Our masters are giving us less and less, and charging us more and more, while using social media to tell us things are getting better.
Not sure about that...180 is rolling pretty good
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Gimme $1,327,781.72 an dill answer that question
Terrible. Isn’t that stealing food from animals? I thought libs cared about animals. How dare they!
Would have been better to design recycling plants to turn feces/urine into chocolate Carnation Instant Breakfast powder.
And to recycle cadavers into Soylent Green food wafers!
McD’s ?
Cockroaches as meat filler in coffee shop chili. I already knew that. That’s why I only do homade from scratch.
I am having mud bug etouffee for lunch. Yesterday, I had mud bug gumbo. I wonder if I should be included in their study?
The question is, how much of this spending is straight up money laundering.
When the time comes that there is nothing left but bugs to eat, at least all the Democrats will have already been consumed.
IF a tomato is a fruit——
Is ketchup a smoothie???
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