Posted on 10/15/2018 7:28:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
More people would give up meat for edible bugs if they believed they were tasty and trendy.
The thought of rising sea levels and more intense heatwaves are enough to keep you up at night. But while we all know the situation is getting more serious, most of us are preoccupied with work, doctor’s appointments and paying bills – and these immediate, visceral worries win every time.
Reducing our meat intake is crucial to avoiding climate breakdown, since food production accounts for about a quarter of all human-related greenhouse gas emissions, and is predicted to rise. In western countries, this means eating 90% less beef and five times as many beans and pulses.
Edible insects have been hailed as a solution to both global food shortages and reducing emissions from animal agriculture, but despite the industry’s best efforts, our response when faced with a cockroach is disgust. Even in London edible insects are seen as nothing more than a gimmick, and there are only a handful of restaurants serving them up.
But new research from Switzerland and Germany may have found out how to persuade people to eat insects – and it could have a huge impact on lowering human-led carbon emissions.
Up until now, retailers and restaurants have marketed edible insects as a more sustainable option and a healthy source of protein. But the researchers explain the problem with getting people to switch to environmentally friendly behaviour is that it often requires foregoing immediate pleasure for distant benefits, and edible insects have been wrongly framed in this way.
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No, that’s why you should eat more to make up for my shortfall.
No
The only insect listed as clean for eating in the Law of Moses was the locust, which I understand to be a grasshopper.
Seeking power they create fear using LIES!
Not if I stayed at Holiday Inn last night.
I would prefer a steak, or Barbecue, or a Chicken sandwich
But looked at with the big view, we are all made up of
dead vegetable and animal matter.
So what...
No. Next question.
If you drink orange juice, you’re already compliant.
Ha Ha Ha Ha! Fools.
Warmer = longer crop growing season.
No, I’m not eating more bugs.. lol
But it is amusing how culturally dependent our diets are and what we will and won’t eat.
Plenty of people recoil at the idea of eating “bugs”, but the same people love eating lobsters, crabs and shrimp, or really enjoy honey.
Nope. But I will squish a few and bug bomb my house. That should help.
LOL!! Great minds think alike!
“Would you eat insects to save the planet from global warming?”
Eat me.
As for tasty....Prime Rib...sirloin...lamb...chicken (when done properly),pork (when done properly) and shrimp (with lots of butter and garlic).
I don't know, Jessica. What did your boss say when you addressed this question to him?
If you eat broccoli or cauliflower, especially organic ones - you are eating possibly hundreds of aphids and thrips with each bite.
NO!!!!!! eat them yourself
And there’s a probable chance that some kids born in Berlin in the last 70 years have a molecule or two of Hitler’s bonfire in them.
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