Posted on 01/14/2017 5:05:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
At Tomorrow's Harvest farm, you won't find acres of land on which animals graze, or rows of corn, or bales of hay. Just stacks of boxes in a basement and the summery song of thousands of chirping crickets.
It's one of a growing number of operations raising crickets for human consumption that these farmers say is more ecologically sound than meat but acknowledge is sure to bug some people out.
Once consumers get beyond the ick factor, they say, there are a lot of benefits to consuming bugs.
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Good. Trendy leftists going down to the Whole Foods hot bar for Sriracha Bugs ‘N Quinoa will leave more beef for me. Cheaper, too.
maybe in an emergency circumstance. otherwise more for them.
The UN is pushing this crap.
Reeducation to dupe us. Dwindling world food supply. Food scarcity leads to ONE thing.
You can make flour from crickets. Sure beats starving. Venezuelans should be raising crickets.
The Venezuelan government would support it until it started to make sense, then they would nationalize it.
Recall an episode of Andrew Zimmerns program, and some California tree huggers were making stuff with crickets....the only one that remotely sounded appealing were the “Chocolate Chirp cookies”
I do not intend to eat any more bugs. I had to eat too many when in the service.
I’m not eating bugs unless the SHTF and I have no other choice.
Wouldn’t that leave one with “baited breath”?
What is going on that the elites are pushing this? Just more Soros globalism, or what? Trying to make Americans feel bad for being blessed?
The Lear Jet Leftists expect to form the core of the global Inner Party. They will continue to enjoy the finest foods and most advanced gadgets the world has to offer — while deciding your fate for you.
If you work very hard and demonstrate unwavering loyalty, you may be permitted to join the global Outer Party. There you will be allowed occasional servings of meat, and air conditioning — on a rationed basis.
The rest of us will eat insects and swelter – ‘for the common good’.
Actually, Moses pushed it first. Joint-leg jumping insects are ‘clean’ and good for food.
Leviticus 11:...…21Yet these you may eat among all the winged insects which walk on all fours: those which have above their feet jointed legs with which to jump on the earth. 22These of them you may eat: the locust in its kinds, and the devastating locust in its kinds, and the cricket in its kinds, and the grasshopper in its kinds. 23’But all other winged insects which are four-footed are detestable to you.…
I don’t recall any recipes, though. :>)
Shake out the bug zapper and bake ‘em up!
I imagine the demand for beef will rise and that for bugs will fall under President Trump. Losers are out of style again!
Just like Soylent Green.
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