Posted on 05/30/2017 10:30:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The individual larvae of black soldier flies, which are native to the Americas, can each eat double their weight of garbage every day, according to experts. The farm in Sichuan province then turns the bugs into a high-protein animal feed and their feces into an organic fertilizer.
These bugs are not disgusting! They are for managing food waste. You have to look at this from another angle, said Hu Rong...
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But the black soldier fly, a rather long and slender critter, does more than eliminate waste.
Once fattened, some of the larvae are sold live or dried to feed animals such as chickens, fish, and turtles. They boast a nutritious composition: up to 63 percent protein and 36 percent lipids.
The maggots make it possible to recover proteins and fat still present in waste, then return the nutrients into the human food cycle through the livestock.
The larval feces can even be used as organic fertilizer in agriculture.
China, Canada, Australia, and South Africa are among the countries where it is legal to feed poultry and fish with insects.
It's more restricted in the United States and in the European Union, said Christophe Derrien, secretary general of the International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed, a non-profit representing Europe's insect production sector.
The EU will allow insect protein as feed in fish farms from July, Derrien said.
It's an encouraging first step because the EU is opening up to this more and more, he said.
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And in the Chinese world of waste, Rong is always Right.
So, let me get this straight: were they bluegill, or were they suckers?
Thx. I wondered what those bee looking flies were. We have them here. They mostly just buzz around and don’t really bother you like regular flies.
To get a really good famine going, you need a government program to “eliminate famine”.
They are for managing food waste......Wait a sec....my mother lied to me? She told me to eat my sauerkraut because kids in China were starving. I asked how many damned Chinese Germans were there? Send them this crap. Now we have FOOD WASTE in China?
It is common practice to place roadkill on platforms above bass ponds. 100% flesh is converted to fish.
I am selling tiny shovels which can be used to harvest that fly feces...
Finally a use for drug dealers, democrats and RINOs.
I asked how many damned Chinese Germans were there?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandong To answer your question maybe 50% of the 95million inhabitants of this province... and yes they look European and speak German and Chinese ... Heres a video of Oktoberfest in China... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAS9bI7Nlz8
On a “Dirty Jobs” epi, they featured the leftovers from all the Las Vegas buffets. A business collects the edible stuff, processes it, and sells it as feed to hog farms.
Flied lice . . . I knew it!
On second thought they might and in getting rid of all the carcasses after we drain the swamp
Had not heard of that.
Makes sense.
Big fat bluegill. Ordinarily I’m a bottom-feeder type guy.
PS I have jigged for crappie with minnows on the Chatahoochie.
That was also “can’t take `em off the hook fast enough” fishing.
Catfishing is just an excuse to drink beer.
Nice.
You’d be surprised about the relatively large percentage of “insect parts” are permitted in our food.
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