Oliver Wendell Douglas didn’t need to move to Hooterville to own a farm. He could have just harvested roaches in NYC.
“Hey! Whassa big deal? Ya eat sea-bugs, don’cha?”
Oh...never mind...those are Democrats.
"Cockroaches."
Just what the earth needs, more disease carrying vermin. Me thinks Mr Bill Gates gets a hard on for pestulent bugs.
There are insects I would be willing to eat. Cockroaches are not one of those insects.
I hear Keith Richards is buying stock into infinity.
Well, that’s great. Africa has its food solution right there.
I’ll stick with our normal food solutions.
Makes a lot of sense for animal feeds, insects have nearly twice the protein per gram of mass vs vertebrates. For monogastric animals such as chickens, pigs, fish and other small vertebrates which are not four stomach ungulates protein is the limiting value in feeds carbohydrates and polylipids are cheap and plentiful. Complete protein which insects create cannot be supplied by one species pf plant alone be it soybean ,chickpea, mung bean none have all 9 essential amino acids that monogastrics cannot.synthesis for themselves unlike ungulates. Given that insects can eat organic wastes including fecal matter and turn it into high quality complete protein it is perfectly logical feed it to animals that could care less if that protein is an insect. Fish are particularly deficient in protein synthesis those that are predatory need 100% of a diet that is half protein from prey fish substituting insect protein removes the need for fish meal to raise farmed fish which have the highest feed to meat conversion ratio of any vertobrate the next closest is avians. Pigs are way down the list. Of course with a source of nitrogen be it urea or ammonia ungulates like goats, cattle or sheep use the bacteria in their stomachs to ferment microbial protein from cellulose. Cows are not grass feed they are fermentation factories who actually live off the.acetic acid and bacterial protein from the last three of their stomachs the grass is food for the microbes in those last three chambers a cow will die if you use too much antibiotics on it and kill its symbiosis system. People can also eat insects if they choose they are much lower in fat and cholesterol vs any other source of terrestrial protein but the yuck factor stops many. Personally my world.travels have taken me to Africa , Asia and latin America all cultures that eat a large variety of insect protein. Grasshoppers are good so are locusts, chocolate covered crickets as well. Stir fries locusts in Africa in dry chili powder tastes identical to the same dish made with dried ocean shrimp I had in central Mexico. Its’m all in peoples heads, we eat lobster and crabs if people knew what those creatures eat every day and how they live on the ocean floors they would be much happier eating vegan crickets grown on edible fruit scraps. Just saying
There is a difference in eating bugs all the time and eating them once in awhile, either as a treat or as famine food.
When I worked in Africa, people would collect “flying ants” when they swarmed as a treat. Here in the Philippines, they eat crickets but it is not common any more.
Western pioneers ate grasshoppers and rattlesnakes but I don’t think their descendents would prefer to eat them instead of steak