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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Will chocolate-covered ants make a comeback? YUM!
Can't wait to see all these on the shelf at my local grocers!
Coming to a plate in your home soon if the globalists and YoBama have anything to say about it.
Good grief! Does anyone really believe we have been eating flour without insects for the past 10,000 years?
Their parts just get ground up along with all the grain particles.
1060s=1960s!
Soylent Chitin? (;>)
Good done!
Or, rather, Good one!
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