Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate activists vegans rejoice; soon you will be able to legally supplement your greens, nuts and lentils with delicious insect protein.
Eat the Bugs: EU Approves Mealworms For Human Consumption to Save the Environment
OLIVER JJ LANE
13 Jan 2021…
The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) revealed the decision that the dried larva of the insect spcies Tenebrio molitor was safe for humans to eat in their journal on Wednesday, noting only that people with allergies to dust mites and crustaceans might experience a reaction to the new food. By the EFSA’s own reckoning, it is the first time bugs have been approved as a food in the European Union.
EFSA expert panel on nutrition member Dr Helle Knutsen was quoted by the body as saying among the investigations needed into new foods were “nutrition, toxicology, chemistry and microbiology to name a few.” The Guardian reported the remarks of EFSA scientific officer Ermolaos Ververis who said of the decision: “This first EFSA risk assessment of an insect as novel food can pave the way for the first EU-wide approval. Our risk evaluation is a decisive and necessary step in the regulation of novel foods by supporting policymakers in the EU in making science-based decisions and ensuring the safety of consumers.”
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The idea of eating bugs as a meat substitute is one that has enjoyed a great deal of media attention in recent years, as the concept is pushed as an alternative to meat consumption by climate change campaigners agitating against traditional food. Indeed, mealworms are just one of the insects presently being considered by European regulators including locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers, all of which are expected to be authorised in time.
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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/13/eat-the-bugs-eu-approves-mealworms-for-human-consumption/
There is no problem with people who want to eat bugs having their favourite food approved for consumption. What concerns me is the association of bug eating with the climate crusade. I worry that some people might eventually be forced to eat bugs against their will, if other sources of protein are priced out of their reach by carbon taxes.
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Not for me, thanks.
I’ll just leave these images here
I shall continue to help save the planet. I will do my best to eat only meat.
Bugs. It’s what’s for dinner.
Someone please tell me that we are not approaching the end of the world. Fake climate change, fake pandemic and now bugs, what the he11 is wrong with us?
Maybe next we can all start eating dirt.I think the world is being run by lunatics.
Lord help me, this reminds me of an Oat Willie comic strip from the days of hippies and underground comics!
The issue is what will be the CO2 burden when you have to increase the meal worm population by multiple orders of magnitude to replace meat proteins.
Let them eat worms.
It’s the new food pyramid don’t ya know, except it will take 10 years to get the design approvals in the U.S. …..for the pyramid graphic design not any other aspects.
Okay but they will start with the educational series in the schools and get to you later.
It will need a French name to get premium prices in restaurants.
Un repas en soi, c’est un vers?
They’re features, not bugs.