Insects are seen as a promising alternative protein source for the future because they are so high in protein but also sustainable to produce, and it turns out the best way of farming them could be in disused mines.
https://sifted.eu/articles/entocube-insect-farm-mine/
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They are just healthier and more environmentally friendly as a source of food. Also, once they have been processed and you purchase them at the supermarket, they look nothing like insects at all. They look like regular food. The only reason we aren't mass producing them yet is because it's not sustainable. We need better technology to mass-breed them more quickly. Entomophagy (the science of insects as a source of food) is actually an active field of research and there is a good chance that the food products of the future will either be purely synthetic or come from genetically modified insect species that have a high %age content of essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins, such as crickets.
It is cheep , nutritious and delicious ! whether you want it fried or raw or barbeque it it is up to you , people of china have done it and still doing it and you can found it everywhere , some have sweet taste and other have a sore one but it is fun and crunchy and crisby like you eat a pringles , truth is insect is the best food source for humanity .
P.s: use some ketchup with it ;)
Hi bug-eating enthusiasts!
I'm creating a presentation on the food safety regulations for bugs, specifically interested in the restaurant level. My interest was piqued after a news story came out about a Las Vegas pizzeria adding grass hoppers to the menu, insired by a boom in the population locally. Obviously they weren't using the grasshoppers from the street, but what were they doing to ensure safe preparation? It seems the US is behind on regulations for bugs as food (compared to bugs in food, as in contamination).
So far I understand that the USDA handles more of the bug production side, while the FDA handles it once they are processed into a food item (after they are dead). There was also the thought posed that as some bugs and sea food are arthropods, similar guidelines may be used (mostly allergy-wise). At the local health department level it seems to be mostly well researched HACCP plans and GMPs.
I know this might be a stretch for the community, as I take it you're mostly consumers, but if anyone has some insight to this I would love to hear it!
In a supermarket in Fussa, Tokyo, a weird shelf was set up. There is a black-and-green-striped tall box depicting a scorpion and a caterpillar, and the label on the box says โInsect Food.โ
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โArmor-tail Scorpion x2,โ and โSago wormsโ are priced at 1,400 JPY (13 USD), โMole Cricketsโ cost 1,100 JPY (10 USD), โSilkworm pupaโ are priced at 1,000 JPY (9 USD), and the price of โGrasshoppersโ is 1,200 JPY (11 USD). All of them are expensive, but these products were almost sold out.
Only 2,600 yen โCricketsโ (24 USD) were left unsold.
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A few days later, the products were restocked, and the shortage was all but resolved.
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So I had the thought the other day. If you were to take a bunch of crickets/mealworms/flies etc, blend them up with maybe a dash of milk or water as a liquid base, and then feed your ants drops of that from a syringe, would they go for it as a protein source? And could it potentially be a more efficient method of feeding your ants and storing food for them?
Figured I'd try and ask here because no better place right? right?
Done plenty of reading about permaculture and it generally has most to do with soil health, gardening, planting etc, but does anyone have any good information on using/attracting birds that eat insects and won't also destroy your crops (e.g chickens)?
Attracting birds such as bluebirds, wrens, sparrows etc.
Any information, experience or if anyone can point to other sources of information that'd be pretty cool.
Alternatively if you have any opinions on why this might be a bad idea or something like that...
