Posted on 04/13/2018 9:39:55 AM PDT by ptsal
LANGLEY, British Columbia (Reuters) - Layers of squirming black soldier fly larvae fill large aluminum bins stacked 10-high in a warehouse outside of Vancouver. They are feeding on stale bread, rotting mangoes, overripe cantaloupe and squishy zucchini.
[snip] Enterra Feed, one of an emerging crop of insect growers, will process the bugs into protein-rich food for fish, poultry - even pets. After being fattened up, the fly larvae will be roasted, dried and bagged or pressed to extract oils, then milled into a brown powder that smells like roasted peanuts.
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Future complaint:
Waiter, there are no flies in my soup.
No we shouldn’t. This prediction has been going on for at least 20 years. It’s a stupid story that exists for the sole purpose of getting the doom and gloom cultists hard.
A good portion of my cats’ diet consists of insects and small creatures. One moth, one newt and one lizard already today. They are constantly trying to share with me but I pass.
Bingo.
Process the insects, powder them, add some additional supplements, can it, and sell it to gym rats and weightlifters.
How Many Insect Parts and Rodent Hairs are Allowed in Your Food?
CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE LIQUOR
•Insect filth: Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined OR any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments
•Rodent filth: Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined OR any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs
CITRUS FRUIT JUICES, CANNED
•Insects and insect eggs: 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml
RED FISH AND OCEAN PERCH
•Parasites: 3% of the fillets examined contain 1 or more parasites accompanied by pus pockets
MACARONI AND NOODLE PRODUCTS
•Insect filth: Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples
•Rodent filth: Average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples
PEANUT BUTTER
•Insect filth: Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams
•Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams
POPCORN
•Rodent filth: 1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples OR 2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples OR 20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples
WHEAT FLOUR
•Insect filth: Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams
•Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams
Trophies on the doormat are so pleasing.
If so, they’re hypocrites as insects are living animals as well. After all, you never hear an animal activist defending the lives of mosquitos, cockroaches or worms.
It's quite the tourist attraction.
Maggot Ranches.
There’s a thread today about some place selling Spider Sliders.
LOL
Yuck. But even spiders wouldn’t be as bad as maggots, I don’t care how much BBQ sauce is on them.
Maggots aren’t so bad if they are in a good sauce.
Oh.
Wait.
That’s carrots.
Sorry.
LOL
We got that now. It’s any collection of Democrats in America.
Been there...the Minnesota state
bird.
Except they bring their trophies, still wiggling, to my desk or deposits them for safe keeping in Mr. b’s shoes.
My kitten prefers her dry food with a side order of flies.
CC
“As I learned in survival school, a few days out in the boonies with no food and your definition of usable protein will expand considerably.“
It sure will. Grubs ain’t bad if you roast them just right.
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