Posted on 04/29/2014 9:51:22 PM PDT by doug from upland
Food of the future Credit: Chad Zuber | Shutterstock.com As the human population continues to inch closer to 8 billion people, feeding all those hungry mouths will become increasingly difficult. A growing number of experts claim that people will soon have no choice but to consume insects.
As if to underscore that claim, a group of students from McGill University in Montreal has won the 2013 Hult Prize, for producing a protein-rich flour made from insects. The prize gives the students $1 million in seed money to begin creating what they call Power Flour. "We will be starting with grasshoppers," team captain Mohammed Ashour told ABC News on Monday (Sept. 30).
Earlier this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released a report titled, "Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security." The document details the health and environmental benefits derived from a diet supplemented by insects, a diet also known as "entomophagy." Gleaned from the FAO document and other sources, here's a list of seven edible insects you may soon find on your dinner plate.
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“Meal worms and termites aren’t bad.”
I don’t know much about meal worms but them termites will destroy your house. They’re beyond bad.
http://chapul.com/blog/tag/Cricket+flour
Its not so far in the future. I saw this on Shark Tank recently. I believe I read somewhere there is a patent pending too.
High protein...
I never throw away bags of food like flour and cornmeal, pancake mix, etc, that is going to be cooked and has pests that are too small to bother with, no matter how old.
No silkworm? A byproduct of the silk industry. You can get them almost anywhere in Korea, tasty too.
What’s brown and crunchy on the outside and soft and creamy on the inside?
A roach!
Centipede, the other white meat.
1 January 2007
Washington, D. C. - The U. S. Department of Agriculture has increased the amount of insect parts and rodent hairs allowed in food from the previous 30 parts or one hair per gram to 100 parts or three hairs per gram, but the increases are allowed only every seventh and eighth year.
Allowable insect parts include semen, heads, antennae, legs, eggs, and maggots. Rodent hairs may come from any rodent, including rats, mice, and squirrels. In the industry, such matter is referred to, euphemistically, as “animal byproducts,” despite the fact that, scientifically, insects are not animals. “It sounds better,” Mike Johannes, Secretary of Agriculture suggested at a recent press conference concerning the increase in allowances.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:Allowable_insect_parts,_rodent_hairs_in_food_increases
Beware of eating libraries. They probably taste awful. And remember, You Are What You Eat. YuckO!
Except Michelle Obama.
That’s libtards. Sorry for the automatic spellchecker. Ha
We can live on good intentions of liberals.
“The U. S. Department of Agriculture has increased the amount of insect parts and rodent hairs allowed in food from the previous 30 parts or one hair per gram to 100 parts or three hairs per gram, but the increases are allowed only every seventh and eighth year.”
Years ago I did a remodel on a Farmers Brothers coffee facility and in the warehouse there was about 5 guys in suits in their hands and knees. I asked what they were doing and was told that a rat had gotten into a bag of coffee beans and they were collecting and counting rat turds.
If the number exceeded a certain amount they would have had to destroy all the coffee in the warehouse which was hundreds of thousands of bags of beans.
You made up my mind for me. The moment I saw those wiggly little Creepy Crawlers, I knew I would rather starve or eat moss, lichen and tree bark before I eat a damn giant roach. NO! I can imagine using the protein rich flour made from the bugs, that, I could stomach without retching. Out here in California, we have a lot of succulent Sanguaro Cacti that can be eaten. So I won’t be turning my stove into a Thing Maker after all.
don’t think so.
i say export our excess bugs to the places that already enjoy frying up and eating bugs.
Sounds like a plan. We don’t need to sign onerous free trade agreements beforehand, right?
First problem I see is gathering these insects. I don’t see college kids running around outside trying to catch grasshoppers so they’ll be breeding them and when man gets involved with nature, man screws it up.
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