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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Nope.
I’m not (literally) bitin’.
YES!!! Or is it NO?
I mean YES— I agree with his NO!
Lots of steak, broccoli, and take Resveratrol.
Cruciferous vegetables have Indole-3-carbinol which is anti estrogenic.
Umm, we aren’t Mexicans or Japanese.
A South American tribe achieves manhood by putting their hand in a mitt of bullet ants.
Some African tribes cut a woman’s clit off.
In Saudi Arabia, if a woman walks alone and gets raped, she gets whipped.
Lots of crap from other cultures that I want zero part of.
This includes eating bugs.
So is pooping in a ditch and not having TP.
So... no.
It’s not easy to avoid, is it? That stuff is in nearly everything.
Only if I am starving. I read of the first American exploration of California, still a Mexican territory.
The soldiers were so starved they scared off Indians from a meat processing area and devoured the food the Indians were preparing for the coming winter.
Then they found the powdered meat was....dried pulverized earthworms. Every starving soldier then puked up what he had eaten.
I used to eat at the Stockmans Cafe in Durango Colorado back in the 1970s. The Chinese owner made GREAT Sweatbreads. He made everything Great food!
Last time I was there it was taken over by some Hippie group and renamed The Lost Pelican.(1985)
I better not mention I’ve eaten chocolate-covered ants. Or really strong-odor foods like a Durian fruit from southeast Asia or stinky tofu from Hong Kong or Taiwan. 🙄
I accidentally bit down on a bug once, it flew into my mouth. It was the foulest thing I ever tasted. Horrible.
Yuck! But THEY will be dining at Pelosi fund raisers at $29000 per plate. Hope it was good!
TRUE! During the Depression the US still produced so much food outside the Dust Bowl that steak was still the cheapest meat on the market.
The US government in the 1930s then bought up thousands of cattle, pigs and milk, dumped the milk and shot the cows and pigs to get the prices up.
Ten years later the same government agents were begging the ranchers to increase beef production for the war effort.
You can’t tell a cow to produce twins or a pig to make more piglets.
uh, no! Trail mix is highly superior food in every respect.
lots of veggie burgers available now, so we might be getting closer to cricket bars
what are the odds that insects are not healthy for humans to eat?
They used to keep me up at night! Now I am so deaf I have not heard one in years! I now sleep well!
WHERE IS PETA? or would that be PETB?
There is a machine for turning bugs into edible food. Its called a “chicken”. Bugs go in one in, eggs pop out the other.
Its a modern miracle.
NO. THANKS.
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