How About Some Bugs for Dinner, Honey - Science

A cricket farm in Mahasalakam Province, Thailand. 

Credit: Afton Halloran

Phys.org:  Six-legged livestock—sustainable food production

Ed: you go to Hell for killing crickets!

If you'll check the files, mate, I think you'll find they don't believe in Hell.


Farming crickets for human consumption is less of a burden on the environment than other livestock production systems according to a new study by the University of Copenhagen's Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Results suggest that insect farming systems can be improved to become even more environmentally sustainable in the future.

- PO

Oh, God, the science gets me giddy sometimes and this is some fine stuff.  From the first sentence, we have the 'it sucks less' argument and we know how convincing that can be.  In the last sentence, it claims this will become 'more environmentally stable' but there's nothing preceding which shows it was environmentally stable at all.

Glory


See, yer fundamental with any kind of livestock is it takes food to raise it so that reveals the obvious step of eliminate the middle man and eat the food they eat.

Ed:  I've seen what livestock it and I'm not fuckin' eatin' it!

Stretch yer noggin a little bit, Old McDonald, and consider just what exactly they use to make Pringle's Potato Chips.

Ed:  you know how it goes with people, man.  They scream bloody murder about GMO food and then they eat Pringle's Potato Chips.

Well, I ain't eatin' 'em.  I'll hold my nose and eat the tofu.


The study demonstrated that cricket farming can be a sustainable means of producing animal source foods. The study compared cricket production in Thailand to broiler chicken production. Fifteen different environmental impacts were investigated including global warming potential, resource depletion and eutrophication.

- PO

The Rockhouse loves bullshit science and here they will compare their dream solution with the worst possible target.  Dreamy.


The science is there for the interested student but the Rockhouse is already disgusted.  The problem isn't with eating bugs since we can solve that the American way.

Ed:  slather them with ketchup?

That's the way.

The problem is this pitch as being substantively better when it's just a dodge on the same game.  Obviously it's incredibly wasteful to breed some fat ass cow to eat it.  So what if it's better to eat tree bark ... now we're killing the fuckin' trees.


Ed:  are you the hard ass bullshit purist who won't call it sustainable unless you can make more of it with no more than sun and water to germinate the seeds?

I'm yer Huckleberry, hypercritical bitch that I am.


If you want to eat bugs then eat bugs but don't insult me with the idea this is the Salvation.  Fucking everyone says they're bringing Salvation.  The only thing I need now is Salvation from all the Salvation.