UN: We should switch to eating insects

Deep fried insects are supposed to be “fun” to eat where I live – personally? I am further UP the food chain…

Prawns and shrimps…aren’t they sea insects?

My suggestion: let them start by eating the mosquitos that spoil my summer evenings outside
At least they would be doing something of value for once

I suspect this was based on ground breaking WHO work in South East Asia. There were communities with no meat, no protein source. It was noticed in some villages that the children were doing well, and others, the children were dying from malnutrition. The difference was the healthy villages were eating insects collected in the rice paddies. Excellent study. Well worth the read. However, in my country, it would be difficult to grow enough insects in many areas (it’s dry like Namibia).
I have been watching since as the news has spread, and now the pressure is on for the rich (read Western nations) to eat insects. Nothing wrong with that, it will come, but eliminating beef???? You’re kidding.
The issue I have with this is that if raising animals for meat causes CO2, what about the wild animals like kangaroos, monkeys, giraffes. By logical extension, as wild animals produce prodigious quantities of CO2 and methane, they should also be eliminated. The birds, possums, snakes, lizards in my back yard all have to be cleared out. Then you can go further, decaying plant matter produces CO2 and in some situations methane…….
Normal Green lunacy

Kofi Annan will have to “rip the ribeye steak out of my cold dead hands” (Kudos to Charlton of course).
If we were meant to eat bugs why do we have canine teeth ?
I have some suggestions for exactly what Kofi can eat; (snip, snip, snip and more snip).
Cheers, KevinK.

somebody commented that the estimates of domestic animal populations can’t be terribly accurate (since to have any idea of CO2 at all this would also need to include age, size, health etc. same must be true of wild ungulates) so how does anybody come up with a number that is anything but a wild ass guess within wide “error bars”. Sounds like a job for Mikey Mann!

Soylent Green is People!!!

You realize if we adopted such a diet that we’d be accused then of taking food out of the food chain and out of the beaks of birds, etc., etc., etc. In the same way, if windmills ever worked and became the one and only, the human-haters would suddenly wake up to the fact that windmills are bird-mincers and we’d have to give them up as well. They want us to get used to less and less and eventually have nothing.
No matter what we do, we will be still doing something wrong in their eyes, and considered the lowest of the low.
After insects, I suppose they’d say we can eat grass (no, not that sort of grass). While we’re working through the insect phase, however, in the world they want for us, you do realize, yes, that we won’t be allowed fire to cook them?

It turns out that we already eat insects (and even less savory stuff), so THERE, Kofi!
http://jezebel.com/you-eat-bugs-every-single-day-so-quit-freaking-out-abou-511630292

This actually isn’t a bad (optional) idea, if you can find the right tasty insects. Grind them up, make a good insect burger. (Heck, you dear reader have probably eaten red die made from bugs and were none the wiser.) Somewhat like in Snowpiercer. Could be a profitable enterprise – BugBurgers Enterprises. Large animal protein is going to get more an more expensive as time goes on.
I’d eat one.

Moronic story. Methanophilic bacteria love large animals. Where large animals live, the methanophiles are thickest. Their role is to convert long chain proteins into shorter chain, so that the humus bacteria can break it down further to fertilize soil.
Without large animals the world would be a much poorer place.
Also, the nitrogen from urine of large animals also feeds the soil bacteria.
That is sufficient reaon to keep cattle, let alone they break down plants into useful fertiliser in the form of manure. Especially plants with high lignin content that can otherwise take years to break down.
Also, the high lignin content plants in grasses anyway, tend to be tall and carry hot fires that scorch the ground, so if livestock are knocking these grasses down, then they are protecting the soil.
So let these dinosaurs from the Guardian keep up with their mythologies, but in the real world, large animals are needed. Who are these [people to decide on biodiversity in their god-like manner?

You first, Kofi, Baby!
Why don’t you switch all of the food served at the UN to bugs?

Insects have a very good conversion rate from feed to meat.

This sounds like something pulled from his arse. I didn’t realize all insects all eat the same thing. I always thought they eat other insects, meat, rotting meat, misc garbage, blood, feces, and different plants depending on the insect.
Kofi being a vegetarian would probably stick to vegetarian insects (maybe some blood and feces eating insects for special occasions), but since he did not say “less expensive or equal conversion rate”, it is a safe bet that raising insects is a more expensive protein source than raising livestock. Which is what the poor are in desperate need of; a more expensive source of protein.

You UN bureaucrazies, go ahead and eat all the slimy bugs you want, but you do not nor ever will speak for me, you cretinous totalitarian turds.

in Australia, all the cattle eat is grass in 85% of cases (15 % of beef is lot-fed). All the grass on the rangelands is composed entirely of carbon chains which originated from CO2 in the air, via photosynthesis. Thus the cattle take in all their carbon atoms from the air, and some of the carbon returns to the air. No new carbon whatsoever is added to the air by grass-fed cattle. Nil. Zilch.

We’ll be waiting with bated breath……