Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan has suggested in an interview with The Guardian, that people should switch to eating insects, to reduce the need for traditional cattle farming.
According to The Guardian;
Should we be encouraged to reduce their meat consumption?
The global livestock industry is indeed a major threat to the climate as it represents 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A growing population and a rapidly growing middle class are increasing pressure on the traditional protein sources, beef and poultry meat, making it more difficult to meet demand. We cannot continue the way we are producing and consuming meat. Obviously, this should not go as far as governments telling people what to eat. However, keeping meat consumption to levels recommended by health authorities would lower emissions and reduce heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. And of course there are alternative sources of protein. For example, raising insects as an animal protein source. Insects have a very good conversion rate from feed to meat. They make up part of the diet of two billion people and are commonly eaten in many parts of the world. Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.
It is nice to know the UN has a plan, to ensure we all have something to eat, after they decommission the world’s fossil fuel infrastructure.
Hey, didn’t Annan oversee the Oil for Food Program in Iraq? One of the biggest frauds in history, his sons dipped into it as brokers to the tune of about 20 million.
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
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These jerks want to use false science for the basis of converting the world to eating insects. And then they will want us to stop eating insects and go vegan. They HAVE to have the populace (slaves) in the settlements subject to long term malnutrition via veganism, as they know that weakened people will have trouble rebelling. In India, there is a saying that “red meat causes war,” as healthy people have the energy to stand up to their oppressors.
I remember discussion of eating insects back in the 1970s, before there was significant consideration of AGW. Insects could be farmed with less resources than other animals slaughtered for meat, especially cattle. Some insects can be fed plant matter that grows where plants useful for feeding most livestock can’t grow. For example, some locusts eat just about anything green.
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.
Everything the leftwing does is a debasement of human beings. It’s almost as if there is an unseen malevolent spirit guiding them.
I predict they’ll eventually announce plans to force people to drink urine and eat feces (to save the environment).
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?
They actually break methane down to formaldehyde so other bacteria can use it.
Says the former lord of the flies.
Eeeeeeewwww!
I totally agree but what do you serve as a side dish to roasted politicians?
Cattle & GHGs? Are the TreeHuggers completely ignorant of the Carbon Cycle, or just completely ignorant?
Insects are, in fact, more feed efficient than cattle. OTOH- it’s really, really hard to get the little lasoo around there necks at branding time.
Beetles. It’s what’s for dinner.
Seriously though, whether or not eating insects would be a healthy addition to a western diet is a red herring. This is about a de facto world government dictating and controlling how we live by not only making energy more expensive and less reliable, but creating the Biggest Lie in the history of mankind, that our CO2 is destroying the planet.
One may feel an urgent need to do something. That is voluntary. This is the urgent need to make someone else do something and that needs a whole lot more … necessity … Plus an absolute prerequisite to a conversation about it that the proposers are already going first.
You first, Kofi, Baby!
Why don’t you switch all of the food served at the UN to bugs?
I wonder some times if they are all brain dead and it seams that i am right , I wonder how he wood react to be given a maggot sandwich
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.
Kofi, you first.
A local science museum had a program last year on edible insects and how to prepare them. I wanted to go but my kids wouldn’t bite 🙂
Seriously, some insects are highly nutritious and a viable source of food. Centralized control of human behavior- not so digestible.
A bacon-wrapped grub worm filet seems just a bit lacking. Mmmmm…. bacon.
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.
The article speaks of high rates of conversion “from feed to meat”. That means using insects to feed livestock, chickens, etc.
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.
I’m a second-hand vegan; cows eat grass, I eat cows. As nature intended!
We’ll be waiting with bated breath……