Bugs. They want us to eat bugs.
Posted on 06/18/2008 5:12:36 AM PDT by Zakeet
Bugs. They want us to eat bugs.
I speak of a recent article in Time that explains why eating bugs is good for the environment.
As it goes, bugs require "little room and few resources to grow." Bugs are cold-blooded invertebrates, you see. They are efficient. Much more of the grub they eat is converted into edible bug body parts than is the case with our friends the cows.
Cows are warm-blooded vertebrates. They need to consume lots more food just to keep their body temperature steady. Their food is grown on farms. Fossil fuels must be burned to harvest, process and transport it. Farming requires lots of land and water.
"It takes far less water to raise a third of a pound of grasshoppers than the staggering 869 gal. needed to produce the same amount of beef," reports Time.
True, but a hunk of steak is less likely to hop off your plate while you're trying to eat it.
Better yet, bugs are good for us. A 3.5 oz. portion of caterpillars contains 1oz. of protein. That's more than you'd get in the same amount of chicken -- assuming the caterpillars don't try to crawl out of you.
Water bugs have four times as much iron as beef. Of course, you need to be four times as drunk to consume them.
And bugs are tasty. People in other cultures have been enjoying them for years. We narrow-minded Americans wouldn't know that, though. We wouldn't know that chocolate and waxworm cookies are delicious (and I'm not making that one up).
If you find the concept of bug eating amusing -- if you find it icky -- you might want to think again. The way things are headed, you may be eating plenty of bugs soon.
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Bugs. They want us to eat bugs.
I will eat them - if I was on FEAR FACTOR getting a million dollars. Time magazine and Environmentalists, you can have bugs - AT NO CHARGE!!
Unless they take their subsistence from bugs, they have no credibility on the issue.
Since crabs, shrimp and lobsters are really sea bugs, bring ‘em on - the shrimp, crabs, and lobsters.
OK....I have a special menu picked out for them and it doesn't take much imagination.
Liberals can consume all the bugs they want.
But they won’t.
They just want us to.
Liberals are also ‘cold-blooded invertebrates’, but I wouldn’t eat them either!
You already do. What do you think the allowed BMFM (broken matter/foreign material) is in the grain that makes your pasta?
I meant to say "Let them eat bugs". Can I have my head back now?
PETA is not going to like this.
PETA is not going to like this.
We eat shrimp and lobster. They're arthropods, just like insects. An old friend of mine lost his taste for shrimp, when a friend of his convinced him they're just bugs. What did it for him was an article in the paper about some town on the Italian coast that had some sort of a shrimp population explosion, and they dealt with it using insecticides.
LOL!
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