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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Just no.
The United States is a First-world superpower and economic juggernaut.
There is absolutely no need for us to eat bugs.
I ate what was put before me all over the world.
Monkey was the hardest to choke down as they look like a little skinned human.
But I am in the US now. So... no.
You do as you like.
LOL, it’s been a while since I’ve watched that movie, but I recall it having a pretty well thought out vision of a “Brave New World.”
Hopefully the revolution starts before we lose the beef and get the crickets.
A while back, I read the memoir of James O. Pattie, one of the first Americans to arrive in California when it was still under Mexican rule. On the way from St. Louis through the southwest, Pattie’s group came across a very primitive tribe of Indians who were extremely poor and who didn’t even have basic tools and whom Pattie called, “the grasshopper people,” because grasshoppers formed a main part of their diet. Civilizations hunted and gathered and later developed animal husbandry and cultivated agriculture so people didn’t have to eat bugs.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Insects ( PETI )
Sounds like a Bill Gates wet dream.
For us, of course. Not for him.
Yuck. I’ll grow my own food. I know how to make everything in the kitchen. I don’t need no crickets.
Just more debasement of the Greatest Nation on the face of the Earth.
#USAGOAT
That said, I like the sound of crickets at night as I sleep. So give me the mosquitoes and flies instead. That's what we should be going after for food.
i do not forsee them in my future
if anyone else wants them have at it
I’ve heard of this all my life and still haven’t seen any next to the Snickers bars. The goal posts for cricket bars keep getting moved further and further into the future.
i do not forsee them in my future
if anyone else wants them have at it
*Erp*
This is the stuff we are asked about when we get a steer butchered and we’re like “Thanks but no thanks.”
I do have co-workers who have dibbsed whole heads and ox-tails though.
Bill Gates-of-Hell, Warren Buffoon, Jeff Bozo, Elon Husk, and Klaus Swab can eat bugs first.
When I was kid we ate a lot of frog legs. Loved em! Dipped them in lemon butter.
I swear Mrs. Paul’s sold them way back then.
LOL! Great point.
I swear, I am fed up with people telling me we have to eat bugs. Or should eat bugs. Or that bugs are tasty.
I will eat human flesh before I ever eat a bug.
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