Gadzooks! My morning toast.. 
is made from insects?
But it still taste like chicken... 
right?
Posted on 10/01/2013 5:29:45 AM PDT by SJackson
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Flour Made From Insects Will Feed Underfed Populations
Sept. 30, 2013
By JOANNA PRISCO via Good Morning America
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PHOTO: Grasshoppers at a market near Oaxaca, Mex.
MBA students at McGill University plan to farm insects in other countries and turn them into protein-rich flour for consumption by malnourished populations. Getty Images
Chew on this.
A team of MBA students were the recipients of the 2013 Hult Prize earlier this week, providing them with $1 million in seed money to produce an insect-based, protein-rich flour for feeding malnourished populations in other countries. The product is called Power Flour.
"It's a huge deal because we had a very ambitious but highly executable five-year plan in place," said team captain Mohammed Ashour, whose team hails from McGill University in Montreal. "So winning this prize is a great step in that direction."
Ashour, along with teammates Shobhita Soor, Jesse Pearlstein, Zev Thompson and Gabe Mott, will be immediately working with an advisory board to recruit farmers and workers in Mexico, where a population of roughly 4 million live in slum conditions with widespread malnutrition.
"We will be starting with grasshoppers," Ashour said.
He noted that the insect is already familiar to the local diet and currently sells at a premium because of a three-month harvesting season and because grasshoppers are typically hand-picked. But farmers have already expressed interest in raising grasshoppers on a mass level, according to Ashour.
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Good grief, many in the world just eat insects which are probably richer in protien then flour....
So, it should be available in the U.S. in about 3 years?
Get rid of the food stamp program and give them this stuff.
What’s the carb content?
It’s re-packaged Soylent Green.
I’ve always thought that the locust swarms would be a great source of protein.
No food for oil. End biofuels for automobiles.
Gadzooks! My morning toast.. is made from insects?
But it still taste like chicken... right?
Quit paying farmers to NOT grow crops.
Allow energy production in the 3rd world.
Quit using food for fuel.
Allow DDT usage in the 3rd world (see Nat Geo July 2007)
There are many true solutions if we didn’t have a bunch of racist, eugenicists all flustered about population control.
What happened to the “Fish Flour” from the late 1060s? If you remember, it was made with fish straight from the ocean. The FDA declared the fish had to be caught, gutted, then made into the flour if it was for human consumption.
It was then not cost effective so the project was shelved.
Wonder what the FDA will say about insect flour?
I dunno...I’m trying to imagines Charlton Heston shouting, “Power Flour is bugs!” at the end of the movie, and it doesn’t quite have the same impact.
I dunno...I’m trying to imagines Charlton Heston shouting, “Power Flour is bugs!” at the end of the movie, and it doesn’t quite have the same impact.
It would if it was an animated film and the characters were all insects.
People got distracted by the Battle of Hastings.
Let them eat bugs. /marie
For this idea they got a million clams? Bet they’re LAO all the way to the bank.
Then, it’s... it’s........ PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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