Posted on 07/09/2024 8:36:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Singapore Food Agency said ‘these insects and insect products can be used for human consumption or as animal feed for food-producing animals’
A young girl eating a fried grasshopper. Singapore on Monday approved grasshoppers, and 15 other insects as food. Photo: Shutterstock
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Sixteen species of insects, including crickets, locusts and silkworms, have been approved as food in Singapore, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) said on Monday.
“With immediate effect, [the] SFA will allow the import of insects and insect products belonging to species that have been assessed to be of low regulatory concern,” the agency said in a circular addressed to processed food and animal feed traders. “These insects and insect products can be used for human consumption or as animal feed for food-producing animals.”
The SFA first conducted a public consultation on the regulation of insects and insect products in end-2022.
In April last year, the agency said that 16 species of insects would receive the green light for consumption in the second half of 2023, but the decision was pushed back.
Earlier this year, the SFA, said it was finalising the implementation details and aimed to introduce a regulatory framework in the first half of this year.
In late June, sources such as restaurants and potential farms said that the approval was imminent.
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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
Barf! I ain't eating no insects. Just ain't. Nope. No way.
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.
They never mention that bugs are full of Parasites
The Marxist miscreants can keep their bugs 🐞, I’m sticking with my meat 🥩, thank you very much.
Neither are the elites and the well-connected.
Some places will eat their government before they’ll eat bugs
dont forget the dung beetle
eating dung beetles will save the earth
its a twofer
“They never mention that bugs are full of Parasites”
LOL! Frequently mentioned. Cooking kills the parasites.
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
When is “National Cricket Taco Day”?
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 @$$
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
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....................
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.
Yes, I assumed it was a local snack food and not a commodity...............
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