Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; There was a time when if found a dead insect in your soup bowl you could demand the restaurant refund the cost of your meal. But all that is set to change when the EU classifies insects as an approved foodstuff.
Edible insects set to be approved by EU in ‘breakthrough moment’
Food safety agency’s decision could put mealworms, locusts and baby crickets on menus
Daniel Boffey in Brussels
Fri 3 Apr 2020 21.29 AEDTIt is being billed as the long-awaited breakthrough moment in European gastronomy for mealworm burgers, locust aperitifs and cricket granola.
Within weeks the EU’s European Food Safety Authority is expected by the insect industry to endorse whole or ground mealworms, lesser mealworms, locusts, crickets and grasshoppers as being safe for human consumption.
The ruling is likely to lead to the final authorisation of their sale across the EU as a “novel food” by as soon as the autumn, opening up opportunities for mass production of a range of insect dishes to be sold across Europe for the first time.
“These have a good chance of being given the green light in the coming few weeks,” said Christophe Derrien, the secretary general of the industry organisation International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed.
“We reckon these authorisations will be a breakthrough for the sector so we are looking for those authorisations quite impatiently. They are taking the necessary time, they are very demanding on information, which is not bad. But we believe that once we have the first novel food given a green light from EFSA that will have a snowball effect.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/03/insects-likely-approved-human-consumption-by-eu
This rule change has been anticipated for a while, various climate elitists have been talking up insect protein for a long time. I suspect to an extent this rule change is just rubber stamping an already widespread practice, going by some of the dodgy late night kebabs I’ve been served when going for a few drinks with friends in big European cities.
If any upmarket restaurants find themselves caught short, and lack the skill to utilise this daring new foodstuff, they could hire a few chefs from North Korea. North Korean climate leaders have decades of experience with living low carbon lifestyles, and can provide expert advice on cooking insects, giant rabbits, and anything else remotely edible which they can fit into their stew pot.
If North Korea is too much hassle restaurants could try hiring the highly experienced insect protein chefs who run a late night kebab shop in a town just North of London, the kind of place where desperate drunk people go after all the local pizza deliveries close for the night. If you’ve ever tried it you’ll know which kebab shop I mean.
The food delivery service, gig job GrubHub may just be on to something.
https://www.grubhub.com/
If you eat birds, chicken or fish you are really eating second hand bugs. In days of yore before fossil fuels were invented ‘Gentles’ (maggots) were a well known dish.
Well I like grass-fed beef. Does that make me a vegan?
You eat the predator of grass.
It makes you a better vegan. A super-vegan.
Grass has ALOT of bugs in it. So are cows vege-insectivores? 🙂
Noted tarantulas in Vientiane market
Truth be known, we already eat a lot of insects. They are in a lot of them in grains, like wheat, oats and rice already etc, so when eating flour (bread) oatmeal or a rice dish, it is estimated there is a tiny percentage that are insects and their eggs and their residual. So it hasn’t killed us yet and when well baked or cooked, you would never even know it. As the guy on the survival show says, when you hungry, insects are real delicious. Probably more so if they are ground up and cooked, along with a snail or clam.
I think this is more a cultural thing. To a true Indian vegetarian, the thought of eating the flesh of a rear end of a cow is just revolting, but to me, it is top sirloin steak. I won’t be getting my knickers in a knot over this, but I also don’t want something mandated on me that I can only eat insects, either by decree or by necessity. There is a place for this, and if they could invent a pheromone to catch all the locusts in Africa, they could have one huge chicken industry. Or just fry them up with some onions and a few spuds. Not a big deal from me..in fact I think we should promote the industry to raise more insects for animal fowl feed, pet food etc. A friend of mine has a cricket farm that he sells to for the pet stores who sell birds, snakes and other such critters that eat bugs. It is already a big industry. If people want to eat it, it is just another food source to me.
Before we replace beef with bugs, can we consider HORSE meat?
It’s extremely tasty, and it consumes less resources, apparently.
Yikes, I was at a very popular sushi restaurant in the Tokyo suburbs one time with a few business colleagues and they had raw horse meat on the menu. One of my colleagues said, as we were discussing it, if anyone orders the raw horse meat, I’m getting up and walking out of here. I would’ve joined her.
…… but we did have the poisonous blowfish.
Only Anglophone cultures have taboo against horse meat, and it is recent.
To the larger point, novel food sources, let’s get over this zoonosis before we risk another.
Yes.
But there were just too many health issues with bad horses in Europe… Horse meat nose dived in France.
You mean that kebab meat is made out of random insects? Oh, thank God!
like fleas tics and crabs…yuuuuuuum
Don’t forget the bats, snakes, and pangolins.
The Khazarians have been working on this for a while. Keep the proles fed just enough to produce for them.
Sounds like something I’m always reading on ZeroHedge comment threads. Am surprised code talking is now showing up on WUWT posts.
Jay, as one J. to another: you should elaborate & tell us more about that settled science. Maybe even show us on a doll where the Khazar touched you.
For some reason it seems the WUWT site moderator didn’t notice what your meaning is.
You could feed every Australian one serve of either rabbit, deer, or ‘roo meat per day, for the foreseeable future, and it would not make a significant dent in the populations of these animals, which all run wild here. By comparison, that’s easier, much easier, than raising, harvesting, and processing mealworms, locusts, or crickets.
Add to this, people LIKE rabbit, deer, and ‘roo meat! No PR campaign required!
Who will head the Mealworm Ministry at the UN and EU? It comes with big salaries and travel budgets.
Eat chitin and die, globalist dictatorship!
Annually, on average, a person in the United States unknowingly ingests 11 pounds of insect and rodent parts in foods prepared with grains.