Posted on 03/28/2025 1:04:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In some regions of the world, wild-caught insects have been a valuable source of protein for centuries. However, the mass farming of insects for food and feed is a modern practice. Over the last decade, the insect farming industry has been hailed as a silver bullet for many of our food system’s problems. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has been a proponent since 2013, when it published a report advocating the potential of farmed insect protein to contribute to global food security.
Things haven’t worked out quite as planned, however, a reality that was brought into stark relief recently by the collapse of insect industry leader Ynsect, which in February filed for insolvency in France, having previously received more than $600 million in investments. A new report I co-authored, opens new tab in the journal npj Sustainable Agriculture, helps explain why insect farming has diverged so far from its initial, rosy image.
As the paper explains, the case for insect farming relied on several assumptions that have not held up in practice. For example, the 2013 FAO report argued for the sustainability of farmed insects partly by comparing their environmental impact to that of conventional livestock. These comparisons remain common in media and industry marketing: Ynsect’s website compares mealworms to alternatives such as beef and pork. But these comparisons are only meaningful if consumers are eating mealworms instead of beef or pork.
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We could just hang the globalists.
The looming Population Collapse will make all of this irrelevant.
Eat what you want, the world won’t run out cuz there won’t be enough people to eat it all.
“Yum yum”/sarcasm
“Sizzle Sizzle” steak or burger on the grill.
The Lear Jet Leftists expect to form the core of the global Green Inner Party. They will continue to enjoy the finest foods and most advanced gadgets the world has to offer... while deciding your fate for you.
If you work very hard and show unwavering loyalty you may be permitted to join the global Green Outer Party. There you will be allowed occasional servings of meat, and air conditioning...on a rationed basis.
The rest of us will eat insects and swelter...‘for the good of the planet’.
‘Mealworm mignion’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Africans and Asians seem to be OK with insect food; they can have my share while I’ll go broil a steak.
The only processed insects I’ll eat is chicken or turkey.
Because I won’t eat insects??
nah
i hear bugs just luv them some globalist snacks
We could just hang the globalists.“
Yeah let’s go with that.
I will consider it after the Davos crowd goes their entire gathering eating only bugs (and no cheating by having steaks sent by Doordash.)
“We could just hang the globalists.”
^^THIS^^ 85% of our problems solved.
I’m glad I won’t live to see where all this insanity is leading.
And to answer their questions beforehand: no lobsters, crabs, crawfish, and shrimp are not bugs. You don’t get around my bug rule like l got around the Friday Lent rules by having the lobster buffet.
Hahahahahaha it always comes up!
So a climate type with his recent dissertaiton titled "Committing to Equality: Distributive Justice, Community, and Economics."
Social justice "warrior." And " Executive Director of the Insect Institute."
A bug guy.
More: The Insect Institue "Our Team" page Surprise, surprise! It's a "sponsored project of Rethink Priorities, a 501(c)3 begging bowl hq'd in San Francisco. They pay themselves rather nicely, with about half their "donations" going to salaries and benefits and expenses aplenty.
Rethink Priorities Form 990, 2023
Both will happily accept your cash, stock, crytocurrency, all through the profitable, third party Donorbox, a web site which will "work for you" in most nations, "seamelssly integrate with your website...." Money. Money grubbing, as in grubs.
Let loose the Davos Zombies. Open buffet.
The “drive” to wean “the world” off of meat had a handful of reality gravel thrown into its gearbox. It got derailed!
Fools have rushed in?
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