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Fight World Hunger: Eat Insects, UN Recommends
We, and the TBAC, previously made clear there is a massive shortage of high-quality collateral - the stuff that forms the backbone of modern monetary practice- some $11 trillion to be exact , as the insolvent world encumbers every possible asset that is not nailed down with more and more and more debt. However, we didn't realize that the asset shortage has also spread to food. As it turns out, Malthus may have been right after all. But fear not: the UN has a modest proposal how to resolve this particular asset shortage: Eat Moar Insects, at least according to the FAO's latest report: "Edible insects Future prospects for food and feed security."
Eating more insects could help fight world hunger, according to a new UN report.
The report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says that eating insects could help boost nutrition and reduce pollution.
It notes than over 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diet with insects.
However it admits that "consumer disgust" remains a large barrier in many Western countries.
Well, that's where central banks come in: after all the whole point of central-planning is that a few Princeton, Harvard or MIT professors think they can change wholesale human behavior using a few simple stimuli here and there. And if they can succeed in getting Joe Sixpack (or Johnny 5) to buy AMZN at a N/M forward multiple believing it is cheap, then eating insects will be the least of our worries before all this is said and done.
Wasps, beetles and other insects are currently "underutilised" as food for people and livestock, the report says. Insect farming is "one of the many ways to address food and feed security".
"Insects are everywhere and they reproduce quickly, and they have high growth and feed conversion rates and a low environmental footprint," according to the report.
The authors point out that insects are nutritious, with high protein, fat and mineral content.
They are "particularly important as a food supplement for undernourished children".
Insects are also "extremely efficient" in converting feed into edible meat. Crickets, for example, need 12 times less feed than cattle to produce the same amount of protein, according to the report.
More brilliance: "raise the status of insects"
The report suggests that the food industry could help in "raising the
status of insects" by including them in new recipes and adding them to
restaurant menus.
It goes on to note that in some places, certain insects are considered delicacies.
For example some caterpillars in southern Africa are seen as luxuries and command high prices.
Most edible insects are gathered in forests and serve niche markets, the report states.
And so on.
But before all our restauranteur readers scramble to the be the first to trademark the McMantis value meal, we are confident the golden arches is already one step ahead, and is already defining the core concept of its brand new "1 cent" value menu.
And since the convergence of events between 18th century France and the current global situation is becoming too close for comfort, we can now predict that at some point soon, a member of the New Normal aristocracy will announce: "Let them eat insects."
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Have you tried them in coke yet ???
My hens love wasps, but won't eat bumblebees. Go figure...
Hard to read as I am in the middle of a cicada salad...squirmy buggers when mating. Need a new ETF: BUGS
Oi! UN! This ain't fucking North Korea!
Give it 20 years...
"Food First, then Morality"...Bertold Bretch
Erm. Let me get this straight. Is the UN now advising people to eat politicos and banksters?
Will they provide a free vomit bowl at the table?
Is anyone BUGGED by this..??
A new low in austerity temerity...!!
We rate cruelty to animals on how much inteligence they (seem to) have. Dogs are next to human, foolowed by dolphins, etc. This is linked with cuteness. Maybe. WWe eat rabbits. But there are some genus of spider that I remember hearing about that are extremely intelligent, like dogs.
I thought about eating grasshoppers, but since my ducks eat them and I eat their eggs, well...there you go.
And to have food safety we have to earmark all insects, right?
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My Grandson just returned from a school field trip to the Detroit water treatment palnt. The tour director pointed out the condums floating in the water and the difficulty in removing them. To save money, thay have switched to Clorimine in place or clorine for disinfectant. Mixed with organic matter like bugs or whatever, Clorimine becomes substantially more carcingenic than clorine. Just thought I would provide ideas to the un.
The FAO's slogan: Fiat Panis
Global solution to the sustainable development of food courtesy Agenda 21
Let them eat bugs
Enjoying the NWO yet?
We are all eating bugs now. Almost, all of the Red die in food is made from ground up bugs.
Is that kosher???
You are talking about the lac bug?
Well-- at least they have a plan, personally I prefer elk to bugs and think I will keep eating wild meet until the wolves get them all. Then I will have to switch to chinease and start eating dog. let them jerks eat bugs if they want.
It seems to be like the UN would have a much better case on its hands for both nutrition, increased food yield, food safety, sustainability, water useage and cost by doing two things:
- Advocate a mostly-vegetarian diet. I don't know the statistics but how could rice, beans, and fresh greens be worse than grasshoppers and beetles?
- Stop advocating GMO monocrops, and promote only Organic crops and traditional permaculture growing systems that don't deplete soil quality and water.
What kind of idiocy/lunacy is it to suggest eating bugs, when the people in these starved nations are starving precisely because of U.N.-sanctioned abuse of the food system by megacorps like Monsanto, and the vaccinations being used to kill off and maim the remaining healthy members of those nations?
How's that gonna work when most on endangered species list?
You goin' to catch me?
I joke with friends the new American dream is going to be, instead of a white picket fence, that you don't want your kids growing up eating bugs.... might not be far from the truth.
More UN innovations.
I suspect the "second set of rules" for those in their Euro ivory towers will be steak and caesar's salad instead.
You see, we are all equal. It's just some are more equal than others.
I'm definitely expanding my ant farm. Retirement income, bitchez!
Insects recommend: eat humans
Food hortage? Not exactly, as long as we (civilised men) are still too fat and about 50% of our brutto food-production doesn't find the way into someones stomach.
Most of us are afraid to eat horse, dog or othe uncommon food, so I don't expect insects to be the rage the next few years.
we won't stop until every animal on the planet is eaten, then we will start eating eachother.
America has an obligation to promote the consumtion of highly nutritious insects.
To meet our obligation, I suggest that half of each individuals Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program allotment of funds be dedicated solely to the purchase of insect based food items.
Oh! and attach a rider that prevents any corporation from patenting any edible insect. We wouldn't want Monsanto developing mutant grasshopers.
Actually, insects were a major food source for paleolithic people and earlier hominids. They are an excellent low fat source of protein. They were probably a more important source of protein (along with eggs) until fairly recently geologically speaking.
Only large scale industrial production is important. Americans aren't going to feed themselves by foraging for bugs.
From the report, 2 major companies are working on it. AgriProtein fattens maggots with sewage and slaughterhouse waste to make a high protein feed for animals. Enviroflight feeds maggots with alcohol/brewing waste to make feed for fish farming. It seems neither one has scaled up large enough yet.
If the economics work out, bugs could be a partial replacement for animal feed. For people, at best, we might see fried mealworm snack foods next to the corn chips.
According to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers of the 4 billion metric tons of food that the world yearly produces, 30 to 50% never reaches human stomachs. This, according to the Institution, is due to poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation, as well as market and consumer wastage.
And commodity trading/speculation and dictators not allowing food passage probably also have something to do with it.
The UN is a cabal of despots and dictators who share Obama's world view. DEFUND and DESTROY that organization and the world would be a more peaceful, happier place. Same holds true for the IMF/World Bank. Out, out damn spots.
Substitution bias for the CPI bitchez.
Lead by example!