From the “in a word, no” department and the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY comes this same tired old story we keep hearing from eco-activists tht believe bugs are more “sustainable” than beef. Because cattle make methane, and that will set the world on fire someday.
The buzz about edible bugs: Can they replace beef?
Edible bugs might sound unappetizing to many Westerners, but they’ve long been included in traditional diets in other regions of the world, which are now home to more than 2 billion people, according a report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The report also notes that about 1,900 insect species have been documented as a food source globally. That they’re a source of protein is well established, but if the world is to turn to bugs to replace meat, the critters will need to offer more than protein. Iron is a particularly important nutrient that is often missing in non-meat diets, causing iron-deficiency anemia, which can lead to lower cognition, immunity, poor pregnancy outcomes and other problems. In light of these concerns, Yemisi Latunde-Dada and colleagues wanted to find out whether commonly eaten insects could contribute to a well-rounded meal.
The researchers analyzed grasshoppers, crickets, mealworms and buffalo worms for their mineral contents and estimated how much of each nutrient would likely get absorbed if eaten, using a lab model of human digestion. The insects had varying levels of iron, calcium, copper, magnesium, manganese and zinc. Crickets, for example, had higher levels of iron than the other insects did. And minerals including calcium, copper and zinc from grasshoppers, crickets and mealworms are more readily available for absorption than the same minerals from beef. The results therefore support the idea that eating bugs could potentially help meet the nutritional needs of the world’s growing population, the researchers say.
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The authors acknowledge funding from the King’s College London.
The abstract that accompanies this study is available here.
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Bugs Bunny, only smaller?
No thanks
I’d rather die
I used to think uncooked fish and sea weed are inedible. I didn’t eat chili, cheese or tomatoes. Could not think about yoghurt without yucking. Vomited on olives.
Now I like nigiris, yoghurt and olives. There is nothing wrong in bugs in general. It is pretty much just a cultural issue. Funny limitation of origin / ethnicity. Like horse (yum!), reindeer (yumyum!) or pork (mm….)
There is nothing better than non-kosher, non-halal, non-enlightened horse-pork-cheese bratwurst with milk, surströmming, fried bugs and haggis. All those I eat now. But I leave chips and coke for you.
Well I like maggots, after they have been fed on oatmeal for a couple of days. That’s when they make the perfect bait to feed out on a fine line with a couple of floats, and exchange them for piper, or some other delectable fish.
But If the Japanese turn all of the Krill into faux filet mignon, what would the blue whales eat.
I’m not in favor of humans supplanting other species lower down the food chain.
I like being near the top.
G
I do too; beef, salmon, eggs, cheese and lots of fruit and vegs. I trust the people who suggest living on insects will lead the way and we’ll not see them eating fillet steak and other fine dining. You think?!
Well my computer’s Windows OS has been fed a steady diet of bugs for years and it dies on a regular basis. And changing numbers, 98-7-10, doesn’t seem to significantly change its diet. Oh well, one of these days I’ll be unable to resist the temptation to perform an ‘inertial adjustment’ and haul off and swat it just like a roach on the floor.
And the money quote:
“using a lab model of human digestion”
Now, models all the way down need to be verified against the real world.
Was this one?
Personally, not really my preferred nosh. Doubtless, at a swep-up restaurant, there will be takers.
And those who come back – if the Chef is on the button.
But bush-tucker trial?
Count me out for now . . . .
Auto, having enjoyed pasta & ham tonight.
Eat an Apple instead.
aw hell dont resist;-)
swat it NOW!
Linux is sooo much better
and the added fillip of NOT funding the Gates critter
I’ve had deep fried grasshoppers (crunchy & similar to potato chips) and chocolate covered fried ants (also not bad) and these can still be found at some specialty stores. I think it’s the thought (like eating horse meat/very tasty) that is the the actual problem as I do know some that would literally starve before they would eat such meals even in an emergency. What always amazed me was the example of people dying during a famine from locust crop destruction when an obvious substitute food supply was flying about them.
Not to mention dog meat. The best red meat in the world.
“Not to mention dog meat. The best red meat in the world.”
Except dogs are carnivorous, meaning they have to be fed meat instead of plant matter.
There is also the huge number of diseases. Hundreds of people die just in the Philippines from rabies alone.
Maybe the liberals will start eating tape-worms – after all, parasites like parasites. I will gladly sell them to them at a bargain price.
So what are your dietary feelings about lobsters and crabs? Let’s be honest; they’re large water-breathing bugs. Not that I’d eat cockroaches either by choice, but I did one have a marketing plan for them. Once. About 50 years ago.
When I was in college I lived in a cockroach infested flat in SF CA. I couldn’t stand using insecticides in the kitchen so each night I’d put out a crock pot set on a timer to turn on at 2 am. I put bacon strips in the pot. Every morning I had this pot full of deep fried cockroaches. In bacon no less.
I started thinking I might be able to sell them. I’d call them “Pop-Roaches” and put different seasonings on them. Cajun style, New York Cheddar. That sort of thing.
Never did it though. Probably would have made a mint.
BTW, everything goes better with bacon. It’s a universal truth.
“Madame, the peasants are starving”.
“Let them eat bugs!”
Oh they ate snails and frogs.
Frogs taste just like chicken, or rabbits.
g
Frog legs are best fresh smoked over an open fire, and like lobster not as good frozen.
There’s not a lot that does taste better frozen. I quite like Frog and Alligator, Snake’s okay-ish, farmed Ostrich tastes of nothing really, Wild Boar is incredibly tasty, but Kangaroo is by far the best tasting meat that I’ve tried. Bugs – I might try them to see, but not to live on.
They eat bugs here in Thailand. I’ve never been tempted.
Save The Crickets!
Pass!
#BugLivesMatter 🙂
Somebody please think of the termites!
‘Each termite produces, on average, about half a microgram of methane per day, a seemingly insignificant amount. However, when this is multiplied up by the world population of termites, global methane emission from this source is estimated to be about 20 million tonnes each year.’
http://www.ghgonline.org/methanetermite.htm
Not to forget the large number of big herbivores in Africa …
Have noticed that the econuts don’t understand that there are a great number of different proteins. Some of them are allergens.
B I N G O !
Liberals don’t like cows
On one hand, they want us to get rid of cows.
On the other hand, they want to repopulate the priaries with Bison.
OK, I waited but somebody has to do it.
Now that’s funny, Tom.
“but if the world is to turn to bugs to replace meat, the critters will need to offer more than protein.”
Well doh! How about flavor.
Try to replace the flavor of a good steak.
green shell mussels, will do it.
g
Take a pill to destroy your taste buds, so you will eat anything. Perfect for far-left zealots.
Then there is the whole, how to raise insects in bulk problem. They go through many developmental stages and might only reproduce under certain circumstances and require specific foods. I do not know of any extensive insect farming going on. In SE Asia many of the bugs are from the wild and some are even rare and getting rarer.
Silk worms.
And they are delicious.
This explains some of your online threads.
ouch.
Rather reminds me of the line in one of the P G Wodehouse books.
“Had his brains been constructed of silk, he would have been hard put to it to find sufficient material to make a canary a pair of cami-knickers.”
James Bull
“This explains some of your online threads”
Worst.. pun.. evah!
Cooked how? I have had escargot and it’s too off flavor for me. However I suspect that like the more expensive fish eggs that it may be more about privilege which provides a required hallucination of adapted/good taste because of the expense/culture.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/152379707591/a-lesson-in-cognitive-dissonance
Man has plenty of experience in that with many different species of bugs. Just visit a bait shop to the see results. When I was a kid I met an old guy that made a fortune raising worms and catering to both commercial and sport fishermen on the Tennessee River at Savannah, TN. I was told that he was the owner of Cherry Mansion there. So those that claim that people should eat bugs or claim they desire to do so have no excuse if they live anywhere close to a bait shop for fresh water fishing.
Don’t know about raising bugs for food, but I can guarantee it is difficult to raise massive amounts of insects. You might not think it so, but when raised in large quantities, they require a very vitamin rich diet and antibiotics, because they are prone to disease in close quarters, the amount and type will depend on the specific insect being grown. And at least in the insects we produced, they are not cheap. I’d sooner good beef because, quite frankly, if the food doesn’t taste good, it pretty well wipes out my desire to eat.
I think that you have overlooked roaches…..
Say…… BFL…. Bugs For Lunch! 😉
oh theres some big efforts underway in Eu I gather, the food industry news keeps touting some new benefit pretty regularly
once the food remnants from processing went to the farms direct
now they extract amazing amounts of further nutrient for the pharmas and supplements/skincare etc
and whats left pretty poor might then go to animals
now
“studies show” (facepalm) that golly gosh!!! insects can be fed the twice thrice etc processed residues
maximising profit and then some..
pity the producers dont see it.
and the animals that did efficiently process and enjoy the fruit veg waste in their diets go without.
they also got the minerals and returned them to the soils
dont reckon cricket shit is going to be a volume supply for gardens etc
Im waiting for the day that Weevils in stupormarket goods get touted as added bonus protein, and charged More rather than apologies n refunds:-)
I’m all for it. Should reduce the demand for beef and my prime rib will be more affordable.
2 billion people already eat kvetch that I can’t even look at, so this fits right in. Go get them bugs folks…
“Should reduce the demand for beef and my prime rib will be more affordable.”
Seems kinda selfish, Bob . . I prefer to not drive up the cost of bugs ; )
I promise I won’t.
I’ll take T-bone/Porterhouse grilled over charcoal with fruit wood added for smoke anytime (medium rare or less).
and a side of flies. hahahah
How many Billion Humans are on Life Boat Earth? Just how many Crickets per serving and how many servings per day? I wonder if herding Crickets would be easier than herding cats?
I say my fellow, that comment was just not cricket. Now please pitch in like the rest of us, and stop making those wicket comments.
All these puns have me stumped….
And then we have to make sure that the crickets are raised humanely. How do you raise “free-range” crickets and not have them fly away? Clip their wings? 🙂
And what about the spiders, lizards, and frogs who would be thrown into sudden competition with an unstoppable wave of hungry humans? 😉
Oh, right. They aren’t fluffy, cute or cuddly, so they can be safely ignored.
I can handle the humane raising. It’s trying to deal with the humane slaughter that has me stumped.
g
Raise those crickets indoors, just think of the outdoor like harmony when sleeping. To kill use inert gas like nitrogen:
https://nitrogenexecution.wordpress.com/
we used to breed n sell them for frog n lizard n bird snacks
i CAN say truthfully that herding crickets that escaped is far worse than herding cats!
and they CHIRP…somewhere in the house..all night
Let’s see, the digestive processes of most insects produce lots of either carbon dioxide or methane. Now imagine the mass of insects required to replace a herd of beef for the dinner tables of the world. I think the CO2/methane balance is either a wash or slightly worse when we consider industrial farming of insects. That is without taking into consideration the life cycle and breeding problems mentioned above. These people are daft.
Also, (just my prejudice) eating insects can’t compete with the experience of consuming a well-prepared beef steak.
And that’s what really bugs me about this whole thing.
It is possible to rear insects in a closed system where you can tap off the methane. You can’t do that with a cow so easily.
Just make sure that there are no sources of combustion nearby.
Beyond that, how high does the methane concentration have to get before your little buggers start dying from it?
PS: Regarding doing it with cows, it’s called a barn. Perhaps you have “herd” of them.
seaice1 October 27, 2016 at 9:10 am
“It is possible to rear insects in a closed system where you can tap off the methane. You can’t do that with a cow so easily.”
Roaches seem to do well in an enclosed environment.
Don’t think I want them on my menu, though.
It is actually difficult to extract the methane gas from barn air. There are however methods.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2606956/Now-THATS-wind-power-Cows-wear-BACKPACKS-capture-emissions-miniature-power-stations.html
“You can’t do that with a cow so easily”
??! No?
You take a tube, tie up the cow, then shove the tube up the cow’s…
Not hard. The cow doesn’t like it.
“Let’s see, the digestive processes of most insects produce lots of either carbon dioxide or methane”
No sh*t! That’s one of those small details future commercial insect growers would rather not expose to the general public.
Weren’t lasers involved in all of this? Was that a different article?
Hmm. My cats have had it right all along…..
Termites produce an immense amout of methane when they digest cellulose just like cows do. Same reason. You can’t fix stupid.
Now I copied this a long time back, but from where I don’t recall,
That first point is bad logical syntax and the original authors should be ashamed. Since “termites” are a subset of the set of living things and since there are other non-intersecting subsets of the set of living things that also produce CO2, the statement is false. They need one little tiny word to make it true and that is the word “other”. The correct statement is:
Termites produce more Carbon Dioxide (CO2) each year the all other living things combined.
I know it is a bit pedantic, but that logical error bothers me every time I see it.
You are correct, termites are living things also. I shudda caught that omission of “other”.
OK, I think I know the origin of that statement.
It was an Editor’s choice of “wording” for a “headline” on a published article.
Apropos logical error, it should be ‘each hour’ or ‘each day’ or even ‘each decade’ instead of ‘each year’.
Those headline writers will get you every time. They are related to our marketing people who can mess up any humble event with over-hype. I hate when people leave an event or lecture disappointed because the marketing write-up oversold the event.
Mmmmmmmm. Rice bugs. It’s what’s for dinner
http://importfood.com/thai_insect_maengda.html
But how do you separate the rice grain from the bug larvae ??
g
Water usually works.
No need to, just cook together adds extra protein.
You wash the rice in a bowl of water. The bugs float, the rice don’t. Believe me, I’ve done it – a long time ago when I couldn’t afford to throw away 10 lb of buggy rice.
The way to turn insects into food is initially via feed for animals. Particularly fish farms because fish are one of the few carnivores we eat. Fish are currently fed on fish meal, which is causing harm to fisheries through over fishing. Insects can provide a good fishmeal substitute. The key to their sustainability is that insects are nature’s waste processors. Insects can be fed on waste from a variety of sources, and the species can be selected to deal with different types of waste. Win-win, and we can eat salmon instead of insect burgers.
Exactly the same way that I like to eat kale – after a cow has processed it into red meat for me!
Exactly, vegetables are what food eats.
As the author Piers Anthony wrote “My ancestors didn’t spend the last 2 million years climbing the food chain so that I could eat rabbit food.”
They tried to feed me kale in hospital once, it looked like the cow had already processed it.
You first.
” but they’ve long been included in traditional diets in other regions of the world, which are now home to more than 2 billion people, according a report by the U.N.”….
Sorry, they don’t eat bugs because they like them or because they are nutritious…They eat them because they are starving !!
Hi Marcus, – It is correct that in some situations insect consumption is in response to hunger. However, in many instances this is not actually the driving force behind their consumption in several cultures. There are even some edible bugs that command what are locally high prices. I am typing on a tablet so for my convenience skip citing specific examples at this point.
Bugs are my favorite snack hmmm crunchy
Hey, I know! Instead of burying or cremating folks when they die, we could convert them into little green wafers (to disguise what they’re made of). Win-win!
Hmmm, Soylent Green?
As usual the study is based on a computer model, this time of the human digestive system. How about some empirical data? It would be quite easy to put a couple of the study authors on a bug diet and record the results.
Ray in SC —
Laughing my assets off. Practice what you preach? Unheard of in left wingers — and this is left wing science.
Eugene WR Gallun
Sort of like “Dances with Wolves”. How many ways can you fix mouse?
if its like the model stomach they used to “prove” GM Soy was safe?
its a chemical bath supposedly hydrochloric acid same levels as our gut
the GM soy trials cooked the soy approx 4x longer than any normal home would..
then whacked it into a savagely strong acid bath to “prove” it digested just fine and the dna gene fiddlins were all broken down.
I dont know where to find the film but a Japanese scientist redid their testing and was pretty UNimpressed.
Everything is in the name. I have one for a startup company that should have investors jumping.
JIMINY CRICKETS
YOWSER! YOWSER! YOWSER!
I am sure something can be worked out with Disney.
Eugene WR Gallun
The hard core vegans like PETA would object as much to crickets as cows.
Hard core vegans. They are next on the menu.
Big Smile! Thanks
I wish I was making this stuff up.
There is already in Europe a piglet feed contaning insect derived oil: A Dutch feed company is the world’s first to put a feed product on the market with insect oil. The weaner feed with the insect ingredient has a lot of potential to reduce bacteria, prevent diarrhoea and improve feed intake; the key components to have a smooth transition from piglet to grower. (Source: http://www.allaboutfeed.net/New-Proteins/Articles/2016/9/Worlds-first-commercial-piglet-feed-with-insect-oil-2883165W/). A consortium supporting insect feed as a protein source for animal feed has recently published a white paper on the topic: http://www.proteinsect.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/press/proteinsect-whitepaper-2016.pdf
No problems with prions and mad pig disease?
Sooooo, what are all of those that want us to eat bugs eating? I mean, after all, if they are so concerned about sustainability they should all have been practicing what they’re preaching for some time now.
Yea! Just like SpottedAl Gorbal and M. DiCaprio ride their bikes to Australia using polar bears and baby seals as convenient hopping stones!
I require approx 60 grams of protein per day. I don’t do dairy (lactose intolerant) so how many bugs must I eat daily?
Hi Tom,- A European bug wrangler reared 488.4 Kg of edible cricket Acheta domesticus per square meter annually with a production rate of 1.34 Kg per square meter daily of crickets. Based on this cricket variety composition from bug research data this production schedule worked out to 0.28 Kg of protein per day produced per square meter.
I have worked out the calculation for a 6 foot tall non-obese 175 pound male protein requirement of 87.5 grams protein daily & trust this is relevant enough to orientate you. If all that protein was supplied by this kind of cricket then all the 87.5 gr. protein could be reared in the equivalent space of 0.3125 sq.mt. Which means that person’s annual protein requirement could be raised on 114 sq.mt.
Soybean at 40% protein content, based on average yield range, would require 626 – 183 sq.mt. to provide the same 175 pound person’s annual protein at the rate of 87.5 gr. daily. However, I must point out that I have not calculated the area required to produce the feedstock for this kind of cricket & different diets give different food conversion ratios.
In terms of edible A.domesticus cricket weight, rather than their unprepared total mass weight, on a diet of 50% soluble carbohydrate, 10% protein, 5% fat, 8% fiber, ash, trace mineral/vitamin & 12% moisture feed for every 1.59 Kg feed you get 1 Kg of edible cricket.
In 2015, based on USA farm commodity prices, I calculated that formulating one’s own feed from bulk stock meant that each Kg of the above feed formula would cost US$0.14 for it’s protein & carbohydrate ingredients. In a simplified estimate, to rear 1 Kg A. domesticus cricket edible portion the feed cost was around US$0.22.
Thank you, and your information is interesting but I just want to know how many crickets do I have to eat daily.
And cricket waste is a great fertilizer! BUT, I will feed the crickets to the trout and then eat the trout for dinner.
Again Tom, – My internet went down & still some glitches. Your original question was # of bugs to get 60 gr. protein. This depends on the type of insect, since bugs have different % protein (& fat). Before going further let me say that insect protein amino acid profiles differ & one should not assume 60 gr. of bug protein as the only protein would provide a perfect human amino acid complement without any vegetable sourced amino acids to round the protein out.
Acheta domesticus crickets are being introduced into households more as a dried & milled ingredient to incorporate into baked & fried goods, rather than as a pile of cooked crickets to chow down. Since rearing conditions, feed & age create variations in a bug’s harvest weight I will use A. domesticus female fresh weight of 400 mg/ cricket for convenience (age mate males weigh less) as a conservative reference.
So the answer to your question is “alot” if figuring on crickets; well over 200 A. domesticus crickets. I am not getting prompt internet access to my prefered source so will not specifiy here the moisture content of fresh crickets or the % protein in fresh crickets from memory. For now, to give you some context, I will repeat one claim that crickets can be 60% protein by dry weight mass. If you are interested in more specific details let me know & since I expect my internet to improve soon will follow up.
I’m lactose intolerant also, beginning 30 days after turning 17. I <3 dairy, it just needs to be fermented first; and bugs do a great job (not insects, bugs, the things lots of insects eat)
I’ll agree they are healthy. I won’t agree that beef will cause the world to burn.
The whole idea is a total ruse anyway. These CAGW hypocrites attack cows because they emit “carbon” from the grass that they ate that came from the air but then wholly support wood burning power generation that emits “carbon” from the trees that they “ate” that …. came from the air. What do I have wrong here?
You thought about it for a moment. That’s where you went wrong.
Yeah, no fair using logic.
Mike M You did not think about it quite enough. The carbon that the cows took in came from CO2 via plants, some of which is emitted as methane. Methane has a global warming potential 72 times that of CO2 in a 20 year period. So the cow converting CO2 into methane increases the current warming significantly.
But the methane only lasts about 8 years in the atmosphere before breaking down.
If the weather were to warm dramatically, the methane would start breaking down even quicker.
Here in Northern Vermont I am surrounded by dairy farms … and we don’t know winter anymore from all that methane heating. Excellent, actually, and good beef.
So the cow converting CO2 into methane increases the current warming significantly.
No. There is about 220 times more CO₂ in the air than CH₄
“seaice1 October 27, 2016 at 9:08 am
The carbon that the cows took in came from CO2 via plants, some of which is emitted as methane. Methane has a global warming potential 72 times that of CO2 in a 20 year period.”
Sorry mods, but this post is a load of carp. Seaice1, you haven’t a clue!
Methane schmethane. Methane is virtually irrelevant compared to WV which masks the same wavelengths.
You people are the ones regularly using the term “carbon” in your narrative, that is until the argument goes against you forcing you to revert back to the correct molecular names of the substances. Regardless, you cannot get around the FACT that the “carbon” came from the air! You made that bed …
And coal is really really old wood (and other organic matter). So why is wood ok to burn when it’s young and green and much less efficient fuel, but not ok when it’s old and black and efficient? Those wacky Greenies.
drednicolson. Because wood is part of our current carbon cycle. Fossil fuels are adding to the carbon in the current carbon cycle. All the carbon in wood was taken out of the atmosphere recently. All the carbon in coal was taken out of the atmospheres millions of years ago. Surely you can see the difference?
Whether or not you think that adding carbon is harmful or not, you surely cannot disagree that burning fossil fuels adds to the amount of carbon currently in the atmosphere, averaged over a few years, whereas burning wood does not.
My tiger salamander rescued from our well a few years ago doesn’t even seem to like fresh caught grasshoppers . Prefers freeze dried crickets .
Pieces of raw liver on a string works well too. I had one of those for a while when I was a kid.
A piece of raw liver?
That implies raising vertebrates . And
higher life forms are what’s broiling the planet .
Oh , and I use a hemostat I happen to have around .
I am going to fire up the charcoal grill this evening. Beef steak, swordfish steak and some burgers. Bugs not welcome.
michael
Good luck with that, the United States didn’t rise to the greatest power and democracy in history by eating crickets and buffalo worms and I seriously doubt it will revert to such primitive practices. Perhaps we should consider butchering and consuming crackpot scientists and hairbrained journalists? Their contribution to the food supply would surely be more valuable to society than their current worth.
But wouldn’t you get mad scientist disease?
Only if you eat the brains.
But they’re from another planet so those brains are an alien species.
Yes but the people eat such things in the great nation North Korea, which the Greens want us to emulate. I guess it goes well with the tree bark and grass.
You’d need some mighty small lassoes to do roach rustling.
Bugs will make efficient high-quality feed for chicken & aquaculture fish.
Excerpted from above commentary:
HA, me thinks “The idea of eating bugs” should, … or will surely, …. “open up a can-of-worms” along with “creating a buzz”.
Quoting above commentary, again:
HA, and the “buzz” being created surely has something to do with …….. just what kinda “iron” did those crickets have “high levels” of? Ya best find out before ya go on a “cricket eating diet” because, to wit:
Excerpted from included source link:
And now that everyone knows there are two (2) kinds of “dietary iron” ……. the “can-of-worms” involving the improbability of there being any actual, factual truths or evidence, scientific or otherwise, to support the currently touted …… “Out of the trees and across the hot and dry African Savannah Theory of Homo Sapien Evolution” …… should surely now cause the subject of “human origins” to be hotly debated.
Our early human ancestors evolved to be the “brainy” ones of the family of Great Apes simply because our ancestors resided on the shores of large bodies of saltwater which provided them an easily accessible, abundant supply of “iron rich” high protein food sources, ….. to wit:
Insects are in the animal kingdom.
YUP, but as far as I know there are not very many “hemoglobin” eating insects that one could “make-a-meal” out of ….. or would even want to try to eat.
HA, “blood sucking” mosquitoes, ticks, bedbugs, leeches, etc., are not “heme” animals that one can easily make a meal of to ward off their hunger pains.
I don’t like the way a cricket’s hind legs will poke your palate and stick in your throat. Perhaps we need a GMO cricket with less chitin.
Will the masses wake up to the hypocritical tyranny that people (hello Gore!) who decree that WE eat bugs and live in cold, dark hovels themselves dine on steaks and luxuriate in palaces?
OK, so bugs and worms have protein and iron. But we get more than that from beef, pork, etc., and one of those things is vitamin B12. Humans require it but our bodies can’t synthesize it like other mammals. Do bugs and worms have useful quantities of B12? What about vitamin D? Some humans can’t synthesize that either.
Notice what the authors did not do? They did not recruit volunteers to go on a diet where their protein source was converted to crickets and then measure week to month health effects. No, what they really mean is that all those other people (especially the poor) need to eat bugs.
Enforcement mechanism? SNAP benefits to restrict payments for beef and other tradition farm foods but provide higher benefits for “sustainable protein products.” Additionally new regulations for reduced price lunches to require integration of “carbon-neutral proteins.” The poor (and especially their children) can eat bugs. Because you know, we care about them. It’s for their good.
Just cook your choice of protein in cast iron pots, iron intake solved.
I used to drive past a pond on the way to work where the owner had hung a bug zapper from a tree limb over the water. One of his neigbors, whom I worked with, said they used to go down in the evenings and watch the fish as they come to the surface every time the bug zapper zapped. Better than TV he said. Probably better than politics, too.
One something like this;
http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/400×400/168/168459_400x400.jpg
And not just one cricket but, a mouthful so they have to chew, feel the texture and then swallow it…and nothing to drink til the crickets are down the gullet.
I don’t want to watch though…too ew!
‘eating bugs could potentially help meet the nutritional needs of the world’s growing population, the researchers say.’
How could the world population be growing if its nutritional needs aren’t being met already?
Gamecock is not interested in having “researchers” choose what he eats, nor paying for people to tell him what he should be eating.
I’m reminded of the line from the movie “Tom Horne”, in which Steve McQueen, being dined by the evil cattle baron on lobster, says, “I never et a bug that big before.”
Australian haute cuisine:
South African haute cuisine:
With caterpillars, who needs a tractor?
Perhaps the bravest man who ever lived was the first one to eat one of them critters.
Snowpiercer is a movie that reveals the global warmer mindset.
Rich elite living in luxury, commoners relegated to eating bugs.
All caused by an attempt to stop global warming.
IMO Tilda Swinton is close to being a unique personality among players active today, or perhaps ever. Her politics are abhorrent, but she is a brilliant actress, as well as being a giantess. I am an abroad Scot of her ilk, BTW.
So I’m doomed to be a vegetarian?
My grandfather disapproved of my father eating pork. My father disapproved of me eating seafood, and would faint if offered some escargot r frog legs. I tried preserved smoked locusts in Central Asia. They don’t taste good, in my opinion, but I guess I would eat them if very hungry. Allegedly, John the Baptist survived on locusts in the desert. Chinese eat everything that moves (though they prefer pork and noodles if they can afford them). Some Central American tribes enjoy roast tarantula.
Ancient Sumerians never ate any fish, believing it to be poisonous. This belief was also widespread in the Middle Ages in Europe (the French word “poisson” for “fish” comes to mind). Orthodox Jews and their cultural and religious plagiarists, the Muslims, cannot stand the thought of eating pork. In Israel, the law requires that swine should not touch the Jewish soil. As a result, non-believers raise swine in Israel on platforms made of wooden planks. Israeli pork is abundant good. But you’d never find pork in Turkey or in Egypt. Being non-orthodox in Muslim countries can go only so far; but you can kill your wife there if you suspect that she is unfaithful. The authorities may give you a slap on the wrist for that, but they will stone your wide to death if you ask them. Angela Merkel wouln’d survive a day in some Muslim regions where I lived time to time.
I’ve met Americans who viewed traditional, delicious Russian foods as utterly disgusting (“Yuck, fish eggs!”), unhealthy (“Salt pork fat with rye bread? It’ll kill you!”) or dangerous (“Wild mushroom soup??? No, thanks, I wouldn’t think of trying it!”)
However, tastes of different peoples, as well as the possibility of eating insects and worms, is not the point here. The point is that green activists hate the civilisation that feeds them, they want to destroy our traditions, they are illogical and suicidal. When it comes to the destruction of Western way of life, everything goes for them, that’s why they are in bed with the Sharia Islam: the worse, the better!
Besides, insects form the largest biomass on Earth that produces far more methane than cattle. Let green activists chew cockroaches, if they so prefer. Parasites feel an affinity toward parasites, I reckon.
My grandfather disapproved of my father eating pork. My father disapproved of me eating seafood, and would faint if offered some escargot r frog legs. I tried preserved smoked locusts in Central Asia. They don’t taste good, in my opinion, but I guess I would eat them if very hungry. Allegedly, John the Baptist survived on locusts in the desert. Chinese eat everything that moves (though they prefer pork and noodles if they can afford them). Some Central American tribes enjoy roast tarantula.
Ancient Sumerians never ate any fish, believing it to be poisonous. This belief was also widespread in the Middle Ages in Europe (the French word “poisson” for “fish” comes to mind). Orthodox Jews and their cultural and religious plagiarists, the Muslims, cannot stand the thought of eating pork. In Israel, the law requires that swine should not touch the Jewish soil. As a result, non-believers raise swine in Israel on platforms made of wooden planks. Israeli pork is abundant good. But you’d never find pork in Turkey or in Egypt. Being non-orthodox in Muslim countries can go only so far; but you can kill your wife there if you suspect that she is unfaithful. The authorities may give you a slap on the wrist for that, but they will stone your wide to death if you ask them. Angela Merkel wouln’d survive a day in some Muslim regions where I lived time to time.
I’ve met Americans who viewed traditional, delicious Russian foods as utterly disgusting (“Yuck, fish eggs!”), unhealthy (“Salt pork fat with rye bread? It’ll kill you!”) or dangerous (“Wild mushroom soup??? No, thanks, I wouldn’t think of trying it!”)
However, tastes of different peoples, as well as the possibility of eating insects and worms, is not the point here. The point is that green activists hate the civilisation that feeds them, they want to destroy our traditions, they are illogical and suicidal. When it comes to the destruction of Western way of life, everything goes for them, that’s why they are in bed with the Sharia Islam: the worse, the better!
Besides, insects form the largest biomass on Earth that produces far more methane than cattle. Let green activists chew cockroaches, if they so prefer. Parasites feel an affinity toward parasites, I reckon.
Horses? Some historic perspective: My Onkel Rheinhold (1896-1917) wrote home from the western front that he had acquired a positive opinion of horseflesh as the best (compared with what he otherwise had to eat). My father, Franz (1903-89), back in Hamburg, also appreciated the taste during the “turnip Winter” of 1916-17. Almost as many horses as humans were slaughtered during World War I. Does anyone imagine that the dead horses were given a ‘decent burial’? If you’re hungry enough, you’ll eat leather, bones, and anything else that appears to be possibly digestible.
Never got to meet my uncle, ‘disappeared’ at Passchendaele 28 years before I was born.
I will not accept buggy nutritional advice from people who suck out shrimp leaving the delicious crunchy shell. They have been known to fish the eggshells out of their omelettes too.
My message seems to be moderated out of existence today.
Can’t imagine, why.
I’ll try again:
My grandfather disapproved of my father eating pork. My father disapproved of me eating seafood, and would faint if offered some escargot r frog legs. I tried preserved smoked locusts in Central Asia. They don’t taste good, in my opinion, but I guess I would eat them if very hungry. Allegedly, John the Baptist survived on locusts in the desert. Chinese eat everything that moves (though they prefer pork and noodles if they can afford them). Some Central American tribes enjoy roast tarantula.
Ancient Sumerians never ate any fish, believing it to be poisonous. This belief was also widespread in the Middle Ages in Europe (the French word “poisson” for “fish” comes to mind). Orthodox Jews and their cultural and religious plagiarists, the Muslims, cannot stand the thought of eating pork. In Israel, the law requires that swine should not touch the Jewish soil. As a result, non-believers raise swine in Israel on platforms made of wooden planks. Israeli pork is abundant good. But you’d never find pork in Turkey or in Egypt. Being non-orthodox in Muslim countries can go only so far; but you can kill your wife there if you suspect that she is unfaithful. The authorities may give you a slap on the wrist for that, but they will stone your wide to death if you ask them. Angela Merkel wouln’d survive a day in some Muslim regions where I lived time to time.
I’ve met Americans who viewed traditional, delicious Russian foods as utterly disgusting (“Yuck, fish eggs!”), unhealthy (“Salt pork fat with rye bread? It’ll kill you!”) or dangerous (“Wild mushroom soup??? No, thanks, I wouldn’t think of trying it!”)
However, tastes of different peoples, as well as the possibility of eating insects and worms, is not the point here. The point is that green activists hate the civilisation that feeds them, they want to destroy our traditions, they are illogical and suicidal. When it comes to the destruction of Western way of life, everything goes for them, that’s why they are in bed with the Sharia Islam: the worse, the better!
Besides, insects form the largest biomass on Earth that produces far more methane than cattle. Let green activists chew cockroaches, if they so prefer. Parasites feel an affinity toward parasites, I reckon.
Bugs on cheese makes cheese taste as it does. Bacteria on chicken adds to flavour. Many Asian cultures deep fat fry pretty much any insect or arachnid. Even Dr. David Bellamy supports this, as well as worms. I even recall him eating “worm cake” back in the 70’s or 80’s, as the future of food. I think he was in the “global warming” camp back then though.
if you werent puking already?
enjoy….
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I found this one for Nancy Pelosi
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I think we should all eat our Greens.