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Listening to today’s episode of the Bunker podcast where they’re talking about how we should all be eating insects.
What does everyone reckon? Apparently in Wales they are using insect protein for some schools in a trial and the kids are fine with this.
Anyone got any recipes for cricket flour brownies?
I've eaten and inhaled plenty of midges over the years 🙂
That's pretty interesting, what's the advantage over plant-based protein like lentils or chickpeas, that sort of thing? Is it the iron content?
What are you a frog?
Have no issue with that. Prawn anyone?
As long as they're processed in a way so I'm not crunching on something or dealing with legs sticking in the back of my throat I'm all for it.
Have no issue with that. Prawn anyone?
Damn, where's the 'like' button?
As long as they’re processed in a way so I’m not crunching on something or dealing with legs sticking in the back of my throat I’m all for it.
Yep, whizz it up into a paste and form it into a burger!
It's called processed food
I listened to a podcast about it a wee while back.
What I can see is
-insects can eat waste food (and each other),
-they're not cute a fluffy so probably won't benefit from high standards of welfare
-few folk will mind killing tens of millions of them to be dried then ground into flour to make stuff.
-apparently higher in protein gram for gram than other stuff.
While I'm here, prawns aren't insects, they are invertebrates though.
I'd prefer to eat plant based alternatives. We're all eating small amounts of insects - rice, wheat etc is piled high and moved with diggers and dumpers, there's no way you can avoid some contamination. As for fields - full of bugs!
If it tastes nice well aye.
The processed insect stuff will possibly have less platelet lysate and fetal bovine serum than the fake meat (ultra processed veg protein) stuff .
Meat has a more complete range of proteins / amino acids in a bio available form for humans.
Yep, whizz it up into a paste and form it into a burger!
we're off on hols to Pembokeshire soon, looking forward to trying this place!
http://www.grubkitchen.co.uk
While I’m here, prawns aren’t insects, they are invertebrates though.
They’re a crustaceans, yes part of the invertebrate family but so are insects.
With more and more mono culture crops being grown for biofuels and bees in decline some people might be forced to eat weeds and bugs.
https://www.ehn.org/monoculture-farming-is-not-good-for-the-bees-study-2639154525.html
I thought bug numbers were in decline? Surely eating them doesn't help.
When do vegetarians stand on the issue?
While I’m here, prawns aren’t insects, they are invertebrates though.
They’re a crustaceans, yes part of the invertebrate family but so are insects.
They're all arthropods
Oooh look, more ways to kill living things.
Lets eat less living things and more plants (which are obviously living, but aren't sentient beings).
But that's just my take on it.
They’re all arthropods
They’re also tasty.
I thought bug numbers were in decline? Surely eating them doesn’t help.
I don’t think the idea is to hunt wild insects.
prawns aren’t insects
They're sea cockroaches.
I don’t think the idea is to hunt wild insects.
That's a shame, it's an entertaining mental image
That’s a shame, it’s an entertaining mental image
No need to imagine:
Eating Arthropods is already done, a lot (crab, lobster, prawn), so more of the same really.
I don’t think the idea is to hunt wild insects.
No, farming. According to that podcast one of the big advantages over vertebrates is that they tolerate being in large numbers close together well (unlike eg. cows which naturally live in small groups and get stressed by being in big herds).
I think they also take the legs off the less processed crickets…
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Free Memberplants (which are obviously living, but aren’t sentient beings).
you know this for certain?
If it tastes nice well aye.
This^^^^^
No problem here. 🙂
plants (which are obviously living, but aren’t sentient beings).
The tree I was talking to the other day had a different view on that.
Was looking into a tabletop grub farm years ago. Mrs P wasn’t too keen (eats only veg and local eggs) and neither was I beyond the novelty/curiosity. tbh I feel that get more than enough protein from nuts, legumes, pulses, eggs and plants. I eat crabs sometimes so am obviously not against chewing some insect flesh. Just meh really. Can’t say for sure until I’ve tried some maggot jerky, cricket cakes or wotnot
Nah, I definitely anti
This was a good watch
Great, now I can sit in restaurants and wait for fussy insect eaters AND vegans while they sent waiters off to find out where stuff comes from.
Eat whatever insects so long as eating is not competing with the animals. i.e. eat farmed insects.
Human take their animal habitat now they want to take their food.
I wonder if the sports nutrition people have spotted this, and if cricket flour is as good as that podcast says?
I'll stick to cow thanks, with the occasional bit of pig or chicken for a bit of variety.
In Wales you say, are they testing out the menu for I'm a Celeb at Gwrych Castle ?
I've had bug-ingredient stuff, like cricket flour. But I don't want to eat a crunchy bug, or anything with wings still on, except if it chooses that path and flies into my mouth while riding.
Also,