Climate science solution: bread made with cockroaches

Let them eat cockroach bread. From the “ew! just ewwwww!” department of climate salvation, comes this idea that’s sure to catch on with people who are really concerned about reducing their carbon footprint. Forget steak, forget Soylent Green, it’s roach-bread!

Looking for an easy, affordable way to get a high protein diet? Researchers of the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG) in Rio Grande do Sul may have come across a crunchy answer, although it might turn your stomach; cockroach-laced bread.

Just like peanuts: ‘Tasty’ cockroach bread may feed world’s population in climate change era

The threat of climate change looms large, providing a unique set of challenges for the future, including how we will feed an estimated 9 billion people by 2030. One group of researchers in Brazil has proposed a different, stomach-churning solution. Cockroaches made into bread.

“They remind us of ches[t]nut or peanut. They’re really good and tasty, and (their presence) does not affect the flavor of the bread,” said Myrian Melado, a researcher at the Federal University of Rio Grande, as reported by AsiaOne.

The practice of eating insects, known as entomophagy, has existed for millennia but has been largely overlooked in the western world since the agricultural revolution.

However, as climate change continues to threaten the long-term viability of traditional livestock agriculture, scientists are once again turning to insects as a potential solution to world hunger both now and in the future.

“Insects don’t create waste. If we think of the amount of water we need to breed an insect, compared to the amount of it needed for cattle breeding, it’s infinitely less,” continued Melado.

Scientists have long played with the idea of switching to insects to meet our protein requirements but, so far, the market in the West has resisted the allure of fresh mealworms that taste like pumpkin seeds or protein bars made of crickets.

Source: RT


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The Original Mike M
February 10, 2017 5:38 am

Can we assume that these will be free range roaches?

Reply to  The Original Mike M
February 10, 2017 8:42 am

Positively NOT. These will be counter-top roaches. Now pass me the maggot mayo and the skunk bologna; I’m hungry.

Sheri
Reply to  The Original Mike M
February 10, 2017 10:24 am

Only if we abolish the FDA. Even raising cockroaches for reptile food requires cages, clean substrate, etc. Unlike cattle, you can raise a pile of these bugs in a 50 gallon aquarium and they the breed at frightening rates.
(Yes, I have raised two different types of cockroaches. I did not munch on them, ever.)

Cheryl
Reply to  The Original Mike M
February 10, 2017 5:46 pm

And organic

Rita Ryan
Reply to  The Original Mike M
February 12, 2017 6:38 am

wonderful

page488
Reply to  The Original Mike M
February 13, 2017 8:45 am

Ha,ha,ha, ha….thanks for providing my first belly laugh of the morning!!!!!

David
February 10, 2017 5:40 am

Who will Keith Richard’s talk to in the future?

Admin
February 10, 2017 5:43 am

No doubt cockroach based recipes will be all the menu items of the next IPCC conference?

Goldrider
Reply to  Eric Worrall
February 10, 2017 6:59 am

That’s what’ll finally put paid to the IPCC–hold the next conference in Mogadishu, don’t provide mosquito netting, and load the menu with cockroaches. Make sure Leo’s there for photo ops!

BallBounces
Reply to  Eric Worrall
February 10, 2017 9:03 am

+1

Reply to  Eric Worrall
February 10, 2017 3:16 pm

Lol but no, the IPCC high rollers needs to have prime rib and lobster tail and caviar and Dom Perignon. Just slip in a little side of cockroaches au gratin and watch them flip out.

Reply to  Eric Worrall
February 10, 2017 10:01 pm

To make it 100% Politically Correct & Organic, be sure to use yeast supplied by Zoe Stavri!
If you don’t know who she is, and you’re not eating lunch, this is her claim to fame:
https://stavvers.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/im-making-sourdough-with-my-vaginal-yeast/

Admad
Reply to  Ken Barber
February 13, 2017 6:00 am

Eeeewwwwwwwwww!

page488
Reply to  Ken Barber
February 13, 2017 8:52 am

Double ewwwwwwwwwwww.

jhapp
February 10, 2017 5:48 am

Could work great to fatten up the chickens, pigs, and maybe even cows. My mouth is watering already.

RockyRoad
Reply to  jhapp
February 10, 2017 7:11 am

… I can hardly keep my lunch down as it is.
I remember seeing the…. oh, sorry, I’m heading to the bathroom…. urp…

Alan Robertson
February 10, 2017 5:53 am

Schmidt sandwich…

hunter
February 10, 2017 5:57 am

“Climate change” is not threatening livestock. Only climate kooks think the answer to adapting to the climate requires eating insects as a staple part of the human diet. Climate obsession is a mental disorder.

jclarke341
Reply to  hunter
February 10, 2017 12:23 pm

It is surreal that these articles continue to be pumped out on such a regular basis when the reality of what is happening is completely opposite. The warming of the last 150 years, plus the huge technical increases in our ability to grow food, (much of it powered by cheap fossil fuels), plus the fertilizing effect of increasing CO2 has put humanity well ahead of the hunger game. We haven’t even begun to apply the latest advances in farming around most of the world, so there is no end in sight to the improving food situation.
The reasons we still have starvation in some areas is mostly political, as governments and pseudo-governments get in the way of progress, human ingenuity and charity.

G-man
Reply to  jclarke341
February 10, 2017 10:23 pm

So much truth in all you say. Good job.

Reply to  hunter
February 10, 2017 6:14 pm

Destroying or eroding civilization away through draconian climate policy is an act of sacrificial penance for the secular religion of the warmists. Eating cockroaches would serve the same purpose.

chadb
February 10, 2017 6:00 am

Infinitely less water – really. I mean, who comes up with this crap. In order to use infinitely less you would have to start with cows using an infinite amount of water to begin with. All this does is make Maledo sound like an idiot

Steve Ta
Reply to  chadb
February 10, 2017 6:41 am

Surely no water is infinitely less that any amount of water, however trivial. So maybe cows are fine – no way on knowing from this rhetoric.

Goldrider
Reply to  chadb
February 10, 2017 7:00 am

This is the vegan loon lobby justifying their insanity as a “climate problem.” That’s what you get when your brain lacks essential fatty acids!

Sheri
Reply to  Goldrider
February 10, 2017 10:26 am

Never considered the lackes “essential fatty acids” idea. Interesting.

JohnWho
February 10, 2017 6:03 am

The PETOC folks will not like this.
(People for the Ethical Treatment Of Cockroaches)

Reply to  JohnWho
February 10, 2017 8:43 am

I was thinking along the same line… Will PETA stand up for the cockroaches?

michael hart
Reply to  Cam_S
February 10, 2017 10:06 am

Several years ago now I saw a website dedicated to the ethical treatment of shrimps, so it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.

Sheri
Reply to  Cam_S
February 10, 2017 10:26 am

Seems unlikely. I would think it would negatively impact donations to their organization.

Alan the Brit
February 10, 2017 6:11 am

The craziness never ceases, does it?

dudleyhorscroft
February 10, 2017 6:15 am

I gather that chocolate ants are supposed to be a delicacy. How about chocolate cockies?
Even supposing that Maledo didn’t really mean “infinitely”, and really meant “a lot less” then consider the amount of water used to raise one 500 kg bull, and the same amount of cockroach protein? But as bulls feed on (free) rain watered grass, and cockroaches feed on already cooked and prepared food, and hence food which has had (comparatively expensive) tap water used to prepare it, I would say that the balance may well be in the bull’s favour.
What sort of cockroaches? The small German or Striped cockroaches, or the large Bombay cockroaches? I suppose to be PC we should now call them Mumbai cockroaches.

Sheri
Reply to  dudleyhorscroft
February 10, 2017 10:30 am

My cockroaches ate dog food (the hissers) and raw potatoes and fruit (the cubans). I NEVER cooked for the bugs. They drank whatever water I put in the cage. They did have a waterer—sponge that was wet so the offspring wouldn’t fall and drown. I have no idea why anyone would use cooked food and filtered water. They’re BUGS.

Reply to  dudleyhorscroft
February 10, 2017 2:10 pm

For an extra zesty treat, try some Baltimore super roach tortillas.
Mm mm…that’s some good roach eatin’.
Note to self: Never, EVER, kiss a climate researcher from the Federal University of Rio Grande.
Best to never let them near your kids, either.
Those folks is crazy.

Resourceguy
February 10, 2017 6:15 am

What about the overloaded grain bins and depressed prices for grain? Are we supposed to play along with the fake news of shortages from global warming just to make advocacy madness happy with their puppet strings?

seaice1
February 10, 2017 6:15 am

A replacement for fish meal is probably most urgent. Farmed fish eat a lot of unsustainable fish meal, and insects could replace much of this. Per acre of land you get a much, much bigger yield than you do with crops, so there is no competition with food for human consumption.

Reply to  seaice1
February 10, 2017 6:05 pm

The yield of fish per acre of land exceeds that of crops if you feed the fish with bugs? Amazing.

Thomas Homer
Reply to  seaice1
February 11, 2017 1:14 am

seaice1: “Per acre of land you get a much, much bigger yield than you do with crops”
Are you saying that insects have a bigger yield per acre than crops? What do the insects eat? If you’re supplying food from an outside source then the ‘per acre of land’ doesn’t apply.
Since Carbon Dioxide is the base of the food chain for all carbon based life forms, the yield per acre of any food source is limited by the rate of photosynthesis/phytoplankton. More atmospheric CO2 is required to increase the yield per acre.

seaice1
Reply to  Thomas Homer
February 11, 2017 5:37 am

Insects eat waste. There is lots of it about.
Michael – I meant the yield of insects, not fish.

ozspeaksup
Reply to  seaice1
February 11, 2017 4:06 am

if they allowed ALL bycatch that they DUMP instead to be utilised for fishmeal thatd be solving that problem and not fouling oceans(yeah i know..other wild fish get a free feed)
but I doubt all of it gets eaten real soon so theres some ukky bits floatig round for longer?

commieBob
February 10, 2017 6:17 am

I used to work with a guy who was raised in the Canadian maritimes. We were having coffee one day and he had some ice cream. For reasons I can’t remember, I asked him, “What do lobsters eat?” He couldn’t finish his ice cream.
Some of the stuff we already eat, especially Chinese food, is way grosser than insects. It’s just a question of what we’re used to.

Tom in Florida
Reply to  commieBob
February 10, 2017 6:54 am

Keep in mind as you chew that a fast food all beef pattie does not mention what part of the beef is being used.

RockyRoad
Reply to  Tom in Florida
February 10, 2017 7:13 am

…that’s why I raise my own beef.
They’re miserable creatures sometimes but my revenge is envisioning them on the end of my fork. Medium-rare, I might add.

Reply to  Tom in Florida
February 10, 2017 11:52 am

As long as it’s the tasty part, that’s all I need to know.

Rhoda R
Reply to  Tom in Florida
February 10, 2017 3:20 pm

Embrace kosher beef. I’m not Jewish but I do like some of their dietary requirements.

Goldrider
Reply to  commieBob
February 10, 2017 3:08 pm

Embrace the roaches, and Chinatown can fire most of the health inspectors. Plus, extra protein!

Jeff Labute
Reply to  commieBob
February 10, 2017 3:23 pm

I ate a scorpion-ka-bob in China. Was not too bad. tasted like a spicy rice-crispy square. The protein made me feel all pumped up. Would be less noticeable in trail-mix or something.

Mark from the Midwest
February 10, 2017 6:34 am

Kind of kills two birds with one stone for all those folks who live on the Upper West Side, they won’t need their exterminators any longer, with all the nasty chemicals, and they can brag about the latest in enviro-friendly cuisine. Yes it’s virtue signaling squared …

Gary
February 10, 2017 6:36 am

Franz Kafka, call your office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis

Eustace Cranch
Reply to  Gary
February 10, 2017 8:02 am

You are what you eat. 🙂

February 10, 2017 6:39 am

Will these be genetically modified roaches…will I have a choice between that and organic roaches…will the organic roaches be more expensive that the GMO’ed kind. Because I can’t seem to understand the up-charge on organic.
I’ve heard roach toast with a nice worm butter, taste like peanut butter and jelly…if you close your eyes. Of course when you close your eyes a lot things are better…I keep asking muffin why she closes her’s when she kisses me…

troe
February 10, 2017 6:39 am

The researchers are just whistling the prevailing tune of climate change while polishing thier turd. We have had a whole lot of that going on for a long time. Recall that we paid for a scientist to place a shrimp on a treadmill.

Don K
February 10, 2017 6:46 am

For marketing purposes, cockroaches will henceforth be known as “Micro-lobsters”.

Editor
February 10, 2017 6:49 am

Has anyone ever seen anything like “However, as climate change continues to threaten the long-term viability of traditional livestock agriculture, “? What threat now to continue?

Sheri
Reply to  Kip Hansen
February 10, 2017 10:43 am

Governor Brown.

February 10, 2017 7:11 am

Cheap sources of protein shouldn’t be dismissed out of cultural hang-ups. Nor should they be forced on people, of course.
But this could be a good way of making nutrients.
Have you heard the theory that the first animal farmed by man was the snail? They are nutritious, self-contained for transport and eqsy to catch.
It made sense to me.

Pamela Gray
Reply to  M Courtney
February 10, 2017 7:23 am

My two cats used to catch snakes till they got too old. Then they caught slugs. Apparently a tasty treat to a slow moving feline with no teeth.

harrow sceptic
Reply to  M Courtney
February 10, 2017 7:34 am

I don’t think the French have progressed much beyond that

Gloateus Maximus
Reply to  M Courtney
February 10, 2017 8:09 am

The size of some snails in Paleolithic shell middens suggests that cave people might have engaged in selective breeding, whether on purpose or by accident. It’s clear that at least they let the snails reach adulthood (at about a year) rather than eating them earlier. They could also have culled small adults out of the population, leaving the bigger ones to breed.

crosspatch
February 10, 2017 7:13 am

The “progressives” will have us all living in mud huts eating bugs “for our own good” if we let them. (While they tool around in their SUVs and private planes).

wws
February 10, 2017 7:14 am

Bill Nye can eat this all he wants.
As for me – okay, I can put up with a lot of stuff, but this is the point at which I’m gonna break out the ammo and start linin’ vegans up against a wall. I believe I’ll have plenty of company.

Don K
Reply to  wws
February 10, 2017 10:33 am

I don’t think cockroaches are considered to be vegetables by those who care about such things. Personally, given a choice between bugs and kale, I’d probably go with the bugs — provided they were dead and not oversalted.

Griff
February 10, 2017 7:15 am

Still would taste better than kale…

Pamela Gray
Reply to  Griff
February 10, 2017 7:25 am

Amen! Kale is nasty! Brussels sprouts times 100.

Reply to  Pamela Gray
February 10, 2017 11:41 am

Brussels sprouts and kale are two of my favorite vegetables.
For those thinking that another Little Ice Age might be around the corner, kale is a great crop to plant, because it is a cool-weather crop, able to withstand extended periods well below freezing. I planted dino kale this fall, and it survived 6-degree F. plus an extended period of days in the teens.
Maybe the cruciferos-o-phobes have not eaten it properly prepared. You’ve got to start with FRESH, live food, … NOT the frozen stuff.
Fresh Brussels sprouts stir/steam fried in olive oil, a bit of real butter, a bit or salt and pepper …. is the way I do it.
Kale stir/steam fried in olive oil, fresh garlic, fresh ginger, a bit of salt, a bit of honey, and a bit of lemon juice … is the way I do this one.
Frozen Brussels do not accommodate this method very well. Boiling makes them mushy or hard and mushy at the same time, and the taste never compares to fresh.
… off to find some roaches now. (^_^)

Goldrider
Reply to  Pamela Gray
February 10, 2017 3:10 pm

I’d rather eat stall shavings than kale. Taste about likewise.

Don K
Reply to  Pamela Gray
February 11, 2017 3:06 am

“Kale stir/steam fried in olive oil, fresh garlic, fresh ginger, a bit of salt, a bit of honey, and a bit of lemon juice … is the way I do this one.”
You omitted the final step: Strain out the kale and throw it in the compost or dry it and use as mulch. Pour the liquid over something edible — toast made from cockroach protein enhanced bread perhaps.

Reply to  Pamela Gray
February 11, 2017 5:11 pm

Oh my God, I love kale. And brussel sprouts.
Oo oo oo … and collard greens steamed so they’re still al dente. Yumyumyum!

Reply to  Griff
February 10, 2017 8:00 am

Chop and fry a Butternut squash until it’s caramelising, chuck in some Kale (minus the stalks), salt, pepper and let the kale wilt down. Serve up with a nice medium rare Ribeye steak.
Yum!!!!…..

Reply to  Griff
February 10, 2017 6:15 pm

Kale needs to be chopped up thoroughly and then stewed for 45-60 minutes together with some smoked sausages. Bit of chopped onions and, if the sausages don’t already contain it, garlic. Salt and pepper as needed, again depending on how much the sausages already contain. Combine with boiled or fried potatoes. Very simple and very tasty.

Patrick MJD
Reply to  Griff
February 10, 2017 9:08 pm

Now now Griff, this is to save the planet don’t ya know.

Griff
Reply to  Patrick MJD
February 11, 2017 1:34 am

Hmm! I think there is a point where the sacrifice has to stop…

Patrick MJD
Reply to  Patrick MJD
February 11, 2017 1:52 am

You do not seem to be…please set an example.

Ed Bo
February 10, 2017 7:17 am

But does roach bread have gluten?

Sheri
Reply to  Ed Bo
February 10, 2017 10:45 am

If it has wheat flour. Maybe not if you use the cockroaches for flour and leave out the wheat flour entirely.

Pamela Gray
February 10, 2017 7:21 am

I see nothing amiss here other than the clever way to get a grant to develop a profitable food source. These days new versions of shampoo are probably being developed using climate change hog slop grants. Here…pick my pocket. I don’t mind.

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