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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Maybe I’ll start with Bill Gates. He’s probably tough and stringy at this point, so he’ll probably have to go in the crockpot with a beer or two.
But they really are tasty. I have had them wok fried and stone fried with sea salt and pepper and they really are delicious. They have a crunchy, nutty flavor.
Completely agree. It also gives me the willies to hear elites pushing plant-based even though I am a vegan. They need to keep out of our personal decisions. I would nearly even want to stop showering if these shady globalists were to promote showers. They up to no good even when what they promote sounds normal... which is less and less often.
Iconic.
A picture really is worth a 1000 words.
My mom got a thing from Biden today asking for money.
She intends to write a long indignant letter and mail it back, postage paid.
I told her to just write EFF YOU!!!! in huge letters.
Brevity is the soul of rage, too.
I found a male with his hind leg missing and put him in a Bug Keeper because I felt sorry for him.
He chirped constantly so I got him a girlfriend.
They did their thing and then dropped dead.
[I had no idea that would happen]
Before his woman died, she carefully deposited a zillion eggs into the moist sand of the Bug Keeper and I kept them all winter, dumping them outside at the normal hatching time, the next spring.
Boy, did I have crickets galore that year.
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