Posted on 08/24/2021 12:42:31 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Smithsonian Magazine reports that protein bars using crickets might be your next favorite snack. Crickets contain more protein than chicken or beef, and raising them are more environmentally sound. Crickets require less food and water to raise and produce one-eightieth the amount of methane as cattle. Eating insects sounds great in theory, but how do they fare as, well, fare?
A company called Exo makes food items from crickets. According to its product website, crickets are "the closest thing to a perfect protein source this planet has ever seen." The company makes protein bars, but don't think that you'll have little legs and wings sticking out of your snack — the bars are made with powder comprised of 100% milled crickets. Smithsonian reports that even though each protein bar has the equivalent of about 40 crickets, the ground cricket flour doesn't taste like much of anything. The bars also contain raw almonds, coconut, honey, and other tasty, natural ingredients.
Though the United States is a little behind in its insect consumption, many other countries enjoy insects as food. The Conversation reports that many countries in Africa practice entomophagy, the word for insect eating. People in Nigeria, South Africa, Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and others consider insects such as caterpillars, termites, and crickets part of their diets.
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bugs are yummy. its coming.
Bill Gates said we would learn to eat bugs and mold.
Yuck. I saw some recipes for cicada pie awhile back.
I have read bug flour which is tasteless may be a very real way to address world starvation.
But it was a few years ago.
Poor little crickets don’t deserve that. And aren’t they animals? I never saw a vegetable cricket.
I do prefer meat, fish and vegetables.
Add a little chocolate and call that one the “Peggy sue” bar. Tomato basil can be the “Maybe Baby” bar.
And, of course the broccoli bar would be the “That’ll be the Day” bar.
I have enough land to run my own cattle and assorted other livestock. Seems like I may be doing that in the future as this ridiculousness continues.
I like mushrooms
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Took me a second.
Well played. 😄
what are sweetbreads? is that something weird like the others you list?
Morbidly obese, beige, sitting in a cube watching porn, eating bug paste, washing it down with soy milk. That’s the future our elites have envisioned.
When we pay farmers to destroy their crops, starvation due to lack of food is not a problem. It’s due to politics.
Guess again.
There was a gift shop by parents’ house they would sell freeze dried sour cream and chive crickets. My son liked them so he would get a box every year in his Christmas stocking.
Africa could grow enough food to feed multiple continents.
They’re just retarded and can’t think or act civil.
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