Posted on 05/17/2024 5:34:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
The "disgust factor" must be overcome if insect-based foods are to become mainstream, according to a study.
Insects can be high in protein and making them more acceptable could help cut the high greenhouse gas emissions that come from farming cattle.
There are also potential benefits for cutting obesity and researchers say the idea of farming insects is gaining more attention.
Hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are estimated to already eat insects to some degree.
There are hopes Western attitudes could shift over time, perhaps in a similar way that food such as sushi has become mainstream.
"Insects are a potentially rich source of protein and micro-nutrients and could help provide a solution to the double burden of obesity and undernutrition," said study lead Dr Lauren McGale, from Edge Hill University in Lancashire.
"Some insect proteins, such as ground crickets or freeze-dried mealworms, are cheaper and easier to farm, often lower in fat and have a lower environmental impact than traditional livestock."
However, most people are still very reluctant due to preconceptions over taste and appearance.
But the study also found they were significantly more likely to give insects a go if they are ground into a powder.
"This has been done successfully with rice products fortified with cricket or locust flours in other parts of the world," said co-author Dr Maxine Sharps from De Montfort University.
Only 13% of the 603 people questioned in the UK study said they would be willing to regularly eat insect food.
Some 47% said they wouldn't eat it regularly, and 40% were unsure.
More than 82% of people expected insect food to be crunchy, 64.6% salty, and 62.4% bitter.
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You vill eat ze bugs!..................
No
NO!
Whack job article written by a whack job.
I am 10,000% SURE i vill NOTT eat zee bugs. EVER.
The “ikk” factor is just too high for me, a boomer.
I’m set in my sociological ways, and would rather
starve. (Yes, I know what that really means.)
Nevertheless...
NO!!
No it doesn’t. It’ll be mandated just like EVs.
I will not eat bugs because eating bugs is not necessary if we can get rid of hateful globalists that are ruining our food supply for depopulation.
I do not want to eat bugs and refuse to eat bugs.
Get them hungry enough, they’ll eat the disgusting little things. First, kill all the other protein sources (dressed meat, eggs, fish, high-protein plant sources, cheese and dairy products) and they will tumble all over themselves to gorge on cultured meat-analog protein paste and - bugs.
Of course, there is always Soylent Green.
How many cattle would it take to produce the same gases from the 100 billion tons of ash and gases produced by three volcanoes erupting in 2022?
IF these elitist wannabe tyrants keep it up eventually there will come a Marie Antoinette movement that will cause an “eyes wide open” moment. that’s how witnesses described the eyes at the precise moment of separation.
I’m sure liberals will eat that stuff up...
1. Overcome the disgust at eating bugs
2. All you can eat cicadas at Red Lobster
3. Obesity!
And just when eating bugs is normalized, the left will be screaming about endangered species of INSECTS, and cruelty to INSECTS.
Ze bugs are getting bad online reviews.
Would you eat insects for your dinner?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/c2lee38gexwo
I’ll keep my disgust factor; they can eat their bugs.
😁😄😁😄😁😄.........................
Refuse to eat bugs! Eat globalists!!
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