Posted on 08/15/2017 9:24:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Full headline: Would you eat a burger made from INSECTS? Mealworm-based food line set to hit grocery stores in Switzerland next week
Switzerland's second-largest supermarket chain, Coop, announced it would begin selling an insect burger, and insect balls, based on protein-rich mealworm.
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Swiss food safety laws were changed last May to allow for the sale of food items containing three types of insects: crickets, grasshoppers and mealworms, which are the larval form of the mealworm beetle.
These insects, long used in animal feed, must be bred under strict supervision for four generations before they are considered appropriate for human consumption, according to Swiss law.
Local production will thus take a few months to get started.
In the meantime, imports are possible under strict conditions - the insects must be raised in accordance with the Swiss requirements at a company submitted to inspections by national food safety authorities.
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Insects as a food source are a good source of protein, vitamins, fats and essential minerals, and there is also a case for rearing insects for food as it could be more environmentally friendly than other forms of animal protein production.
The production of greenhouse gases by most insects is likely to be lower than that of conventional livestock - for example, pigs produce 10-100 times more greenhouse gases per kg of weight than mealworms.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The “greatest man born of woman” had no problem eating insects (locusts.) I think that’s a pretty solid precedent.
Cockroaches and fly larva (maggots) are already considered human food in many parts of the world.
The groups turning insects into flour and just making it one more ingredient in meal bars have the more palatable approach. Less “ick”, and no odd taste or body parts, either.
I remember when vegans freaked out on finding out their lattes were colored with dead bugs.
How about insects? No, what are you, some weirdo?
People are strange.
Of course the Algores and Zuckerbergs of the world will stop eating beef, pork, or chicken and switch to insects only.
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Are you suggesting they’d actually eat their own? :-O!
;-)
"The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama's best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, the president recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.
"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy)," the president wrote. "Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths.
He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.""
http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/obama-ate-dog-meat-as-a-boy.html
The groups turning insects into flour and just making it one more ingredient in meal bars have the more palatable approach. Less ick, and no odd taste or body parts, either.
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Yeah. I keep having this nightmarish image of plucking a stray leg or two out from between my teeth.
Shudder.
No.
The mealworm is one stage of the insect.
I would eat a cockroach raw for $1,000,000 and, not a penny less.
>> I remember when vegans freaked out on finding out their lattes were colored with dead bugs.
When my wife’s Buddhist temple found out about the red food color being made from insects, about 15 years ago, they stopped using any red colored foods. Now they limit their color choices to yellow, blue and green.
Never had meal worms, but crickets (sauteed, fried) are outstanding.
I'm a contrarian, so I prefer free-gluten and range free.
Most people would be shocked at the types of foreign matter in their govt.
Does a worm have a face?
no never
I feed dried mealworms to the chickens as a treat to lure them into the coop during the day. Knowing my neighbor would freak out, I ate some. They weren’t bad, a little like pork rind.
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