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Climate change lunatics who want to ban beef and force everyone to eat bugs have a new target. According to AFP news, climate "scientists" are targeting rice farming as a "dangerous," emissions heavy practice. They say flooded rice fields, which then naturally ferment hay and other plants, produce too much methane. According to National Geographic, rice is a main and key food source for 3.5 billion people. "Rice is a food staple for more than 3.5 billion people around the world, particularly in Asia, Latin America, and parts of Africa. Rice has been cultivated in Asia for thousands of years....

With bugs, algae and other resource-efficient foods we could feed one million people on Mars within a century of arriving there. Scientists even invented a martian diet. Cannon and colleagues modeled the food needs of a human population on Mars that grows to one million over about a hundred Earth years through a combination of immigration and reproduction. Though the settlement would need to import a lot of food at the start, it could transition to an entirely Martian-grown diet in about a century with the right food choices, they found. The major limiting factor is space — or rather,...

<p>Welcome to Cafe Cicada.</p> <p>The appetizer -- if not conventionally appetizing -- specials today are "fried cicada in soy" and "sesame-garlic cicada."</p> <p>You might know these extremely seasonal dishes as insects.</p> <p>They're only on the menu every 17 years with these big Brood VIII cicadas, which, after a late start due to the region's cold, wet spring, have now emerged from the earth and are abundantly available throughout Beaver, Butler, Washington, Greene, Lawrence and Westmoreland counties.</p>