Singapore approves 16 insect species as food, including grasshoppers, silkworms, crickets

South China Morning Post ^ | JULY 9, 2024 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Dried crickets (top), cocoons (left) and grasshoppers, ingredients that are part of cricket ramen home-cooking kits, are seen in pots at a kitchen in Tokyo. Photo: AFP

[AndyJackson]

I've eaten fried shrimp heads [like that scene in Apocalypse Now] so I guess it's the same thing, right?

Barf! I ain't eating no insects. Just ain't. Nope. No way.

[AndyJackson]

cricket ramen home-cooking kits

There was a time when the Japanese made real quality goods and sold at reasonable prices and we Americans would buy that stuff and in return we would sell them real food. Of course that was back before we woke up to the evils of international trade between allies.

[butlerweave]

They never mention that bugs are full of Parasites

[No name given]

The Marxist miscreants can keep their bugs 🐞, I’m sticking with my meat 🥩, thank you very much.

[CatOwner]

Barf! I ain't eating no insects.

Neither are the elites and the well-connected.

[butlerweave]

Some places will eat their government before they’ll eat bugs

[joshua c]

dont forget the dung beetle

eating dung beetles will save the earth

its a twofer

[TexasGator]

“They never mention that bugs are full of Parasites”

LOL! Frequently mentioned. Cooking kills the parasites.

[joshua c]

it will not be about wanting to eat insects

it will be about eating insects to avoid starvation

other protein sources will be hard to find and extremely expensive

the elite will eat steak

the serfs will dine on mealworms

[RayChuang88]

Before you say It's all a WEF plot!, the use of insects as human food has been around for just as long as using domesticated cows, pigs and poultry. The Mexican chapulines and the Japanese inago no tsukudani have been around for hundreds of years. Now, ground into a protein meal is a development of the last 70 years or so.

[MtnClimber]

When is “National Cricket Taco Day”?

[BigFreakinToad]

Mankind’s digestive tract is not intended for that. Bugs with exoskeletons are chitin, which isn’t digestible. I ain’t eating bugs, the powers that be can kiss my pink @$$

[RayChuang88]

A big issue is how to gather enough insects for make the level of protein humans need. Even the Mexican chapulines are more a secondary form of protein compared to domesticated pigs and chicken.

[joshua c]

have the cows pigs and poultry been severely restricted by the govt

so that the only readily available and affordable protein source is insects?

that is the WEF plot

[Red Badger]

I remember seeing a travel documentary years ago, way before internet, that showed some place in Mexico where people were eating live, small, black beetles in a tortilla from a street vendor....................

[RayChuang88]

But that is still a niche source of protein from the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico. Even down there they still rely on domesticated cows, pigs and chicken for their protein.

[Red Badger]

https://www.crickethop.com/cricket-taco

[Red Badger]

Yes, I assumed it was a local snack food and not a commodity...............