I remember when I first saw Beetleburgers on Ed Sullivan.
We should test these on Bill Gates, waterboarding-style.
Oh H*** NO!
Send them to the starving parts of the world the West don’t need this stinking crap
In the Netherlands they are adding cricket dust to bread, everything.
Also Italy.
An Italian bakery plans to sell loaves of bread made with powder from processed crickets.
The news comes after the European Commission ruled last month that partially defatted and powdered house crickets (acheta domesticus) can be marketed and sold as ingredients in food in the EU. The powder is sometimes used as an additive to make the products richer with protein.
https://www.rt.com/news/571169-italy-cricket-powder-bread/
Tastes kinda like spotted owl.
In the words of President Trump: “Better you than me.”
Here we are, allegedly at the zenith of thousands of years of civilization, and they are proposing that we eat worms and insects.
Before we shift to eating bugs to “help feed the world”, how about our government first quit paying farmers to keep land fallow. Evidently we can grow more food than we need.
I ate roasted beetle grubs when visiting Thailand. I was prepared to be disgusted, but they were not bad. Better than fake tofu chicken in a vegetarian dimsum restaurant.
The not so random attacks on our food supply is designed to usher this crap in. Remember to get your vaxx booster.
Coming soon, roach tacos.
The firm is experimenting with optimal conditions for mass production — such as food, temperature, and humidity — at its Paris headquarters.
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they seem to be under the delusion that it is a supply problem rather than demand
And in the third world, the meat is local.
But this is about essentially big business making money. So poor Africans, instead of being taught how to raise chickens or even introducing cuys or rabbits that they can raise in a small plot, are going to be fed with processed bugs sold to them by a French company.
the possibility of these insects carrying disease has not been investigated.
And then you face the “YUK” factor: People in poorer countries will not eat unfamiliar foods or food traditionally forbidden by custom (hence the joke MREs are meals rejected by Ethiopians.).
I know our local Africans had a taboo against eating shrimp and crayfish.
And I wonder: Are mealworms halal? Grasshoppers and locusts are, but there is a question about mealworms.
My daughter in law just got a halal approval for her organic rice, so she could export it to Muslim countries. So one does wonder about this.
Make sure you get your girl some treats she will not soon forget.
Gross. About 10 years ago, my kids knew some kids whose parents made food with insect parts. I imagine those parents are happy about this idea. I’d rather starve.
LOL! On that page there is an ad for weight loss. Coincidence I am sure/s
These are going to make people chronically sick and malnourished.
Chitin will cause severe gi tract problems long term. Anyone with shellfish allergies could be in serious trouble. It will still cause problems and inflammation and digestive problems in everyone else, as it doesn’t break down in the human gut. Insect protein does not have several amino acids meat does. You will become deficient in these critical amino acids if this replaces animal meat in your diet.
I’m waiting for the shet burgers Biden is readying for each of us.
When the “elite” start serving it at their “conferences”, I’ll take a second look at it. Actually, no I will not.
Let them eat the bugs and leave me my beef, venison, chicken, and pork.
The new “they shall eat bugs and be happy” narrative is for the peons. Those that make the rules will still eat the beef and the “apples and milk” for it helps them think and create rules for the rest of us to live by.
Hard pass for me!