Posted on 08/03/2022 10:51:48 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Around the globe, at least 2 billion people eat bugs, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. However, most of the Western world regards eating insects with reluctance or even disgust. This seemingly arbitrary cultural view has been preventing research surrounding insect agriculture, until recent years.
In 2013, the U.N. FAO issued a report examining the valuable role of edible insects in solving food system issues like food security, human health, and environmental sustainability.
The report states that insects generally provide high levels of fat, protein, vitamins, fiber, and minerals, though exact values vary based on species. This makes them a highly nutritious and healthy food source for humans. In addition, they can serve as an effective source of feed for livestock in an era when demands for feed production are increasing rapidly.
Raising insects for consumption is environmentally beneficial because of their high efficiency. The report states that crickets only require 2 kilograms of feed for every 1 kilogram of body weight gain, as opposed to an average of 5.8 kilograms of feed per kilogram of body weight gain for common Western livestock. Insects also emit fewer greenhouse gases and less ammonia, and require less land and water than other species of livestock.
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Few things make me angrier than the idea that the peasants should be forced to eat bugs. It’s such a way for the elitists to rub our faces in it. You know they will eat Filet Mignon. But for us? “Let them eat mealworms”.
Plenty of deer, squirrels and rabbits on my property should eating bugs become mandatory.
Historically, at a certain point, the peasants got rid of the elitists. 1789 France being the most prominent example (the aftermath not necessarily so good).
How far into the transition do we get, before articles warning about a shortage of bugs is harming the environment.
I’m a ‘Second-Hand’ Bug Eater.
I eat things that eat bugs............................
Where are the crazed leftists screaming, CRICKETS HAVE RIGHTS TOO!
They are not “elite.” Time to call them what they are: PARASITES.
I think liberals should ESAD. That’s right, you wankers. I got some dog poo right here... Open wide! It’ll be good for ya’.
Already being brought up. On the Enterprise (star trek) all the food and drink is recycled waste, made to look and taste like your favorite food.
Wait for the outbreak of bug parasites infecting human hosts. If a person ever saw a horsehair worm crawl out of a cricket, they would think twice about eating bugs.
Let the elite, all the politicians, all the liberals and socialists, chow down and show the rest of us how its done. For a few years straight. No other foods.
All likely third world countries the new world order
would gladly turn the rest of the world into.
These are "farmed" bugs raised inside a building and processed there as well.
The reality is that this is moving forward on all fronts. An edible insect manufacturing facility just opened in Canada and they are trying to take farms out from production.
Nobody recognizes what is happening here right under their noses.
chirps and dip...
My favorite bug is a lobster.
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