Why aren’t we all eating insects?
Independent (UK),
by
Daisy Dunne
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/4/2021 2:21:22 PM
“Mealworms are very versatile. They have a nutty taste,” says Tiziana Di Costanzo, co-founder of Horizon, a small-scale edible insect farm in London. Di Costanzo and her family started farming mealworms in their 30-square metre shed around two and a half years ago. The business now sells live mealworms and dried crickets to customers in the UK.(Snip) The farming of insects for food has been billed as the next sustainable food revolution in western countries many times over in the past few years. One reason for this is, compared with traditional livestock such as beef and lamb, insects require
Reply 1 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/4/2021 2:26:24 PM (No. 648879)
I’ll starve first, thank you very much.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 1/4/2021 2:34:23 PM (No. 648884)
While the lizards feast on my rib-eye steak? I don't think so.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/4/2021 2:38:35 PM (No. 648889)
Plus they're kosher, am assured. Crickets and locusts are real tasty, and, yes, nutty.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jennie C. 1/4/2021 2:42:59 PM (No. 648897)
Because they're yucky?
By the way, almost all shellfish are either bugs or snot.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/4/2021 2:54:06 PM (No. 648908)
For the same reason we're not fighting wolves and lions for a piece of their kill. We evolved to raise and kill our own meat. Not insects - MEAT. Bugs - there's RAID for that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 1/4/2021 2:54:22 PM (No. 648909)
Maybe we can eat the Murder Hornets?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/4/2021 2:55:46 PM (No. 648911)
If you want to eat bugs, go ahead.
If you want to FORCE me to eat bugs, I'll kill you... not because I'm horrified to eat bugs, but because you're forcing the issue.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 1/4/2021 3:04:14 PM (No. 648914)
The elite want us to eat insects, because:
More steak for them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DARling 1/4/2021 3:15:37 PM (No. 648923)
Because they're gross?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
marbles 1/4/2021 3:17:22 PM (No. 648924)
Actually, lobsters are insects. They have an exoskeleton.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/4/2021 3:57:11 PM (No. 648949)
Daisy, honey, you've been in lockdown way too long. Enjoy your meal worms. At our house, we'll stick with beef, chicken, pork, and veggies. Thank you very much.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dst4life 1/4/2021 4:04:19 PM (No. 648957)
Perhaps I should pray that those seventeen year locusts come out more often. If we have a Harris-Biden administration which will lead to famine, I may need to start eating bugs. Isn't it the Left who would like to rid the planet of cows which provide us with protein?
Perhaps this article is "forward thinking."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 1/4/2021 5:34:49 PM (No. 649037)
Because they're bugs.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 1/4/2021 5:55:30 PM (No. 649060)
Yechh.
Nope, not doing it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 1/4/2021 6:26:09 PM (No. 649082)
"Because they are disgusting" is my answer.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/4/2021 7:10:26 PM (No. 649113)
All they have to do is change the name to something trendy, like Hearts of Hickory or Walnut Wellington and they will probably sell ten times as much for a higher price. It worked switching Slimehead to Orange Roughy.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
anonymous 1/4/2021 7:12:52 PM (No. 649115)
Some of us already eat insects by accident, especially in summer when the air is full of them and you're doing the gardening. In any case, a plate of crickets or mosquitos is definitely not my cup of tea.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
czechlist 1/4/2021 8:12:33 PM (No. 649160)
Remember the law of unintended consequences? Each insect is on the planet for a purpose: Remove too many at what will result? What is the environmental impact of removing insects from their natural habitat or raising insects for food? What happens if they are over produced? Michael Crichton, could produce a book and movie about insects run rampant to raise awareness- but alas
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Because...no.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
franq 1/5/2021 5:56:53 AM (No. 649375)
Leave them for the birds. Author must have needed an outrageous, click-grabbing headline to get her commission.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 1/5/2021 1:39:00 PM (No. 649706)
We didn't evolve to this point to begin consuming bugs, but the 3rd world is more than welcome to.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Penney 1/5/2021 2:45:16 PM (No. 649737)
Why, with the abundance of nutritious food we have available in America, would we eat insects? ....We are not desperate and impoverished.
God bless America's ranchers and farmers!!!! God bless the truckers and grocers, the cooks and everyone in the vital food supply train! And God bless moms & dads!!!
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You're welcome to my share, Daisy. Comic touches: article admits that without all manner of subsidies and planning, bug farms would be just as environmentally mean and the "food" prices just as high as first-world animal-based foods. So stay as we are? Of course not; they want us all to eat the bugs, just to rub it in. They add that as part of the Global Reset, we would need reeducation starting at an early age to accept eating bugs as they do in the third world, to avoid starving to death.