Bugs anyone?

[FanthatSpark]

1,000 Australian schools add ‘eco-friendly’ bug snacks to canteens | America's Frontline News


At first I thought , no way... click bait. As it turns out though its a thing. Brilliant marketing stratagy too, use the kids.

 

[Sophrosyne]

Crickets.

 

[FanthatSpark]

Crickets.

Yummy. I remember my fascination with bugs as a child.

 

[Trusting in Him]

John the baptist ate locusts and honey! Apparently locusts are Kosher to eat!

 

[Sophrosyne]

Yummy. I remember my fascination with bugs as a child.

I remember bugs in programming

 

[Trusting in Him]

Locusts are quite useful. There eat crops and other plant life which in extreme situations caues famine, they are very easy to catch and eat, so quite useful to those trying to survive the effect of famine caused by the locusts. Some people in Africa also eat large flying ants! Apparently they can be cooked over a fire and stored in earthenware jars to be eaten later. Insect provide a good source of fat and can be very helpful to those living in a survival situation.

 

[Sophrosyne]

Locusts are quite useful. There eat crops and other plant life which in extreme situations caues famine, they are very easy to catch and eat, so quite useful to those trying to survive the effect of famine caused by the locusts. Some people in Africa also eat large flying ants! Apparently they can be cooked over a fire and stored in earthenware jars to be eaten later. Insect provide a good source of fat and can be very helpful to those living in a survival situation.

So do you have any locusts in your bug-out-bag?

 

[FanthatSpark]

Locusts are quite useful. There eat crops and other plant life which in extreme situations caues famine, they are very easy to catch and eat, so quite useful to those trying to survive the effect of famine caused by the locusts. Some people in Africa also eat large flying ants! Apparently they can be cooked over a fire and stored in earthenware jars to be eaten later. Insect provide a good source of fat and can be very helpful to those living in a survival situation.

I hear ya, but I got serious programming/psyop stuff in my mind that bugs are nasty. Not saying above statement is not truth. Just saying there is a real mental block (taught by a parent & grown ups to a child/Me) that bugs are the last thing on the menu...period, .

 

[FanthatSpark]

The above took years of programming a mind that bugs are gross. Yet , I still remember a brief time of fascination.

 

[Pavel Mosko]

1,000 Australian schools add ‘eco-friendly’ bug snacks to canteens | America's Frontline News


At first I thought , no way... click bait. As it turns out though its a thing. Brilliant marketing stratagy too, use the kids.

I've been noticing this stuff talked around before by Tim Pool. Canadian Pastor Artur Pawloski showed this stuff at the Calgary fair.

 

[Unqualified]

Do they fill them up with chocolate? When I was 1960s at store offer chocolate covered ants and grasshoppers. For Real.

 

[Trusting in Him]

I think it may be the chinese that eat chocolate covered ants.

 

[Ceallaigh]

I've eaten crickets sold as food before. They weren't delicious, but palatable.

 

[Hank77]

Do they fill them up with chocolate? When I was 1960s at store offer chocolate covered ants and grasshoppers. For Real.

On a class trip, we visited Rockefeller Center in the 1960s. We bought chocalote-covered ants and bees. I imagine because we thought they were exotic but I just remember that they weren't disgusting.

 

[Semper-Fi]

Massive cricket-processing facility comes online in London, Ont.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/cricket-farm-london-ontario-1.6506606

“‘Crickets have this incredible ability to convert what they eat into protein biomass,’

“We have a massive growth in both population and appetite for protein, while at the same time we’re seeing a significant reduction in arable land and resources to produce food. Our longer-term vision is to make sure that this is a protein source that can be available and affordable to genuinely address food insecurity in many countries around the world.”

Although the plant will make revenue by selling to the pet food market, the entire premise of the facility is to provide an alternative source of food for humans.
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SELICK: If Canadians wanted to eat crickets, we wouldn’t
be forced to subsidize the cricket farm
SELICK: If Canadians wanted to eat crickets, we wouldn’t be forced to subsidize the cricket farm
“As well, the company appears to have received $16.8 million from Canadian taxpayers through something called NGen (Next Generation Manufacturing Canada). It looks as though that’s just the first installment, however; the project total for the ‘insect protein supply chain in Canada’ is shown on NGen’s website as $73 million.”
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Investment in state-of-the-art facility for Aspire to support sustainable food production
Alternative sources of protein such as insects provide an opportunity for Canada's agriculture and agri-food sector to more sustainably meet global demand for food. Aspire's goal to tackle global food scarcity led to its focus on edible insect production, which can provide high volumes of nutritious food with a low environmental footprint.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835793/-

https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...r+Acceptance+Research+2022_Public+Version.pdf
Canadians must cut meat consumption by half to reach climate goals: report
Canadian meat industry pleased to see exemption in Front-of-Package labelling regulations
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Most experts do not know the ramifications of an insect-heavy diet.
Many people who have a shellfish allergy are also allergic to crickets.

The government is trying to craft a narrative we must eat less red meat to protect
our health and save the environment. What will replace protein from red meat?
Twenty-six billion crickets per year.

Would you be willing to replace prime rib and steak with fried crickets?

No sense buggin' out — insects are already in our food

 

[Toro]

And BOOM just like that I now have food allergies.

Darn.

As far as being in food already... there is a difference between levels I am unaware of being found "acceptable" by food standards and the main course

There is flouride in my tap water... Im not rushing out to drink a bottle of straight flouride either.

I can live with eggs in my baked gopds..... but I'm not eating an egg scrambled, sunnyside,.. or any other way you egg people eat them.

 

[The Barbarian]

Would you be willing to replace prime rib and steak with fried crickets?

If they were prime crickets, maybe...

 

[Sophrosyne]

Well.... now if you hear crickets it isn't silence, but dinner

 

[HARK!]

At first I thought , no way... click bait. As it turns out though its a thing. Brilliant marketing stratagy too, use the kids.

It's possible that we've already been eating them.

I steer away from processed foods.

 

[The Barbarian]

It's possible that we've already been eating them.

No, it's guaranteed that we are...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforces a standard or defect action level stating that a maximum of 75 insect fragments per 50 g of flour is allowed.
Rapid assessment of insect fragments in flour milled from wheat infested with known densities of immature and adult Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) - PubMed

There are similar standards for frozen vegetables and other foods. As an undergraduate, I had one class in which I had to isolate those parts and determine if they met standard. The parts are extracted by food oils.

Bon appetit.