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Keep this in mind the next time you get the urge to kiss an environmentalist. ;)
1 posted on 07/16/2008 12:28:50 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Schnucki

I was thinking about getting some chickens for “bug eating” job. The chicken farts are probably bad for the environment or something.


2 posted on 07/16/2008 12:43:00 AM PDT by underground
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To: Schnucki

Better than Soylent Green...


3 posted on 07/16/2008 12:51:01 AM PDT by Androcles (All your typos are belong to us)
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These things are all down to fashion. After all, we eat crustaceans - shrimps and prawns and crabs - so why not insects?


4 posted on 07/16/2008 1:39:02 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Schnucki

I’ve known of people to eat and enjoy the feet of pigs, the brains of calves, the embryos of chickens, and the eggs of sturgeon. ANY food is icky if you think too much about it.


5 posted on 07/16/2008 2:59:42 AM PDT by tlb
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They want to “slip” me some bugs in my food?

Crazy people. Let them eat bugs, I’ll stick with steak.


6 posted on 07/16/2008 3:19:53 AM PDT by autumnraine
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Just the ugly bugs...not the cute furry ones.../s


8 posted on 07/16/2008 3:23:10 AM PDT by Coffee200am
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For example, a cow yields only 10lb (4.5kg) of beef for every 100lb of feed it eats, whereas the same amount of feed would produce tens times as much cricket.

What a misleading statement. What percentage of a cow is utilized for food and other things like leather as opposed to the amount of digestible content of a cricket.

9 posted on 07/16/2008 3:34:36 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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I could just see it now ... “Start your morning off with a nice bowl of Cricket Crunch! Part of your daily balanced diet with 16 Vitamins and minerals! They're GREAAAAAT! (free toy in side specially marked boxes)”

I'm sure someone here who is good with PhotoShop can whip up a good picture of this.

10 posted on 07/16/2008 3:59:44 AM PDT by CapnJack
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Well, My husband on a visit to China, munched on deep fried Scorpion and Locust on a stick. He said the Locust tasted better, like a crunchy potato chip. Me, I will just stick to my Chipped Beef on Toast, which He finds quite odd./Just Asking - seoul62......


13 posted on 07/16/2008 4:11:20 AM PDT by seoul62
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Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a huge push by some in power and the media to not only reduce the standard of living for people in the US, but something somewhat eerily similar to Pol Poht's attempts to "de-urbanize" Cambodia... Returning to "earlier times," and a "simpler way of life."

Of course the people in charge would never be expected to change THEIR lifestyles.

Mark

17 posted on 07/16/2008 5:26:46 AM PDT by MarkL (Al Gore: The Greenhouse Gasbag! (heard on Bob Brinker's Money Talk))
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Interesting that The Economist would not discuss the reasons WHY food prices are increasing globally. It wouldn't have anything to do with oil/gas/diesel/transportation costs tripling in the past few years, would it? Nah. Just ignore it, and move on to the cute bug-eating idea. A magazine like The Economist need not worry about such trivialities as global economic issues and how they relate to interesting topics.
20 posted on 07/16/2008 8:05:22 AM PDT by Teacher317 (Thank you Dith Pran for showing us what Communism brings)
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Some of us have had bugs for dinner before, and aren’t “environmentalists” - but rather have had to spend some time surviving on what we could find to eat.

:)

Depending on the BUG though.... I’m honestly quite happy with red meat from cows, deer, elk and other critters that are a bit higher on the food chain.


21 posted on 07/16/2008 8:05:35 AM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for latest on DPRK/Russia/China/et al.)
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i have eaten live grubs before. not bad. just hold the head (do NOT eat the head!) bite down, do not chew, and swallow. great protein in the jungle. and you cannot get much fresher than still moving!


22 posted on 07/16/2008 8:26:14 AM PDT by thefactor (the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
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All the libs and government douches can eat bugs, I won’t.

If they are made to eat bugs, as they want us to do, there will be more of the good stuff left for me.


27 posted on 07/16/2008 12:41:20 PM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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"What with rising fertiliser prices, increasing concerns about deforestation and unreliable rains brought on by climate change, how will we find new sources of nourishment?"

What nonsense. There is no proof of this at all. Weather has always varied region to region, that's just the way the earth works. No year is the same as the one before it.

The only concern of "deforestation' comes from enviro-mental moonbats, who continuously spew baseless stories of doom and gloom to scare uneducated populations.

There is no food shortage in this world, nor is there any reason to worry we can't produce enough food now, or in the forseeable future. Nor is there a shortage of land to grow it on. There is an abundance of arable land now, in fact because of modern farming techniques, a lot of airable land has been allowed to revert back into wild hayland and scrub, because the markets are saturated from too much crop, driving prices down below production costs.

Oil prices have a direct impact on the cost of food at many levels, It costs the farmer more to grow it, more for the fertilizers (a petrolium product) to grow it, and to truck it to market. High oil prices add to the cost of food processing, and to the cost of shipping that processed food to the grocery store. Higher oil prices cost the grocery store more for the electricity needed to refrigerate and store those products, it costs their delivery trucks more to deliver that food to it's customers.

And just who is doing all they can to make the price of oil go up? The same enviro- mentalist moonbats, Marxist nutcases in persuit of global marxist governance, self appointed and/or selected not elected executive that run the various NGO's that inhabit the rooms at the UN, all of whom use funds governments of this world rob their citizenship of, not for the programs these NGO's are supposed to be running, such as food aid, but to push this global warming LIE, which is nothing but a SCAM to rob the citizenship of productive western countries and fund their attempt to create a global marxist dictatorship.

28 posted on 07/16/2008 3:19:09 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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