Eat crickets and stop droughts

Cheddar Cheese Puffs made with cricket flour are already here (in Canada anyway).

The company that sells the Cricket Puffs is called ActuallyFoods, possibly because BugFoods, or Pests-for-dinner might not be a winner.

Worth noting: “People who are allergic to Shellfish may be allergic to Crickets”.

They are professional marketeers. Putting cricket flour into the junk food category first is a way to sneak it in and quietly normalize it. People buying junk foods at the supermarket probably aren’t reading the ingredients list too closely, and people eating puffs at parties definitely aren’t.

Remember eating crickets will change jet streams

Or at least make you feel saintly:

SUSTAINABLE

We prioritize the planet just as much as we do our health. Our superfoods produce less emissions and waste than traditional health foods, so they’re an easy choice for eco-friendly eaters.

This is food with all the fashionable buzz-words:

Powered by sustainably farmed, organic crickets, our puffs are high in protein, rich in vitamins such as B12, and a natural source of prebiotics.

I note these crickets are not free-range.

At $5.99 a bag they will be aimed at the wealthy-Greens seeking self-advertising or penance. Though not necessarily the vegan ones. Strict vegans will have a dilemma since insects are technically part of the animal kingdom. The Vegan Society warns that honey isn’t vegan because it exploits the bees. So presumably slaughtering millions of innocent crickets won’t fit the bill either.

The Keto-crowd also won’t be happy because the puffs are about 50% carbohydrate. Who will be happy?

h/t David Maddison, John Connor II

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79 comments to Eat crickets and stop droughts

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    Kevin T Kilty

    Don’t spill any under the fridge or you get no sleep.

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    Honk R Smith

    Soylent Green is next.

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    Bozotheclown

    What part of the cricket does “flour” come from? How does one deflour a cricket…

    And I thought Gee Aye said “no one is seriously considering insects for human consumption”? If I’m misquoting Gee please accept my apologies. (I couldn’t find the link back but I’m pretty sure it was a reply to David Maddison a few threads back)

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    Petros

    Don’t insects emit methane?

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    David Maddison

    The Left have so far won the war against:

    1) Energy (policies of energy poverty).

    2) Bodily integrity (forced covid “vaccinations”).

    3) Free speech (control of speech of non-Leftists and heavy Leftist propaganda via social and legacy media).

    4) Personal wealth (devalued by inflation).

    Now the one element left for the implementation of total totalitarian control is:

    5) The food supply (the war against “nitrogen” (sic) and the promotion of insect eating for non-Elites).

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    Richard+Ilfeld

    When you wish upon a star….
    My how the world has changed.

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    David Maddison

    Do you think climate catastrophists will be eating crickets as they fly on their private jets to climate conferences and feasts at said conferences?

    Or will it be Beluga caviar, eye fillet steak and Krug champagne?

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    David Maddison

    Do you think Soylent Green is going too far?

    Not if you’re a Leftist.

    Never challenge a Leftist with an extreme and unacceptable idea. They will do it.

    https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/shock-campaign-suggests-people-go-cannibal-to-fight-climate-change/

    Shock Campaign Suggests People Go Cannibal to Fight Climate Change

    The Swedish Food Federation proposes a drastic solution to the world’s growing population

    ‘Eat a Swede’ asks whether people would be willing to eat human meat as an alternative protein.

    McCann Stockholm, The Swedish Food Federation

    (Article is paywalled.)

    And here is the official “Eat a Swede” website and video.

    https://eataswede.com/

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      Lawrie

      I don’t mind the idea of leftists using Soylent Green so long as they don’t want the rest of us taking it. The truth of it is the left want us to take it and leave the planet to them just like they forced the vaccines on many who did not want it. Why are they still pushing boosters when we all know that it does not work to stop Covid? These people in whom we have placed our trust are our greatest threat these days.

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      Adellad

      I quite like Chinese and/or Indian – far greater supply too.

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    What we need is to breed giant millipedes then everyone can get a leg

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    MrGrimNasty

    The only problem is the side effect, the uncontrollable urge to rub your thighs together.

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    James Murphy

    The vegans I know, would never touch anything made from crickets or other insects, and are disgusted by the idea. They also lean very far left (politically, not because of their diet). Obviously the powers-that-be do not consider this portion of their overly-supportive demographic to be important.

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    David Maddison

    The world’s biggest cricket farm is in Canada. It will produce 13,000 tonnes of insects per year. Supposedly initially for pets but you know where it is heading.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/cricket-farm-london-ontario-1.6506606

    “Our longer-term vision is to make sure that this is a protein source that can be available and affordable to genuinely address food insecurity in many countries around the world,” he said.

    “I think it is so exciting that we are at a moment in history where we’re really re-evaluating our food systems in general, and exploring new ways of exploring protein and more efficient ways of producing protein,” said Evan Fraser, director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      Lawrie

      By comparison little Australia produces 30 million tonnes of wheat in a good year. It also grows many thousands of tonnes of high protein meat on land that would not feed a cricket, free range too.

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        Scissor

        That 13,000 tonnes of crickets might very well consume 20,000 tonnes of wheat.

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          David Maddison

          Spot on!

          Crickets have a food conversion ratio of 1.5:1 so will need 1.5 times as much food as product produced.

          Now, chickens have about the same food conversion ratio, 1.6:1.

          So it makes you wonder why insects are being forced upon us when we could be eating chicken.

          I think we all know the answer to that.

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      Zane

      Canada Oh Canada…

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      Old Cocky

      Aren’t crickets sold as food for pet reptiles?

      I suppose that means they’re being sold for pets rather than as pets.

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    David Maddison

    Australia’s CSIRO (once reputable government research organisation) is also promoting insects for human consumption.

    https://www.csiro.au/en/news/news-releases/2021/an-industry-with-legs-australias-first-edible-insects-roadmap

    More than 2,100 insect species are currently eaten by two billion people from 130 countries, including 60 native insect species traditionally consumed by First Nations Peoples in Australia. Iconic Australian species include witjuti (also known as witchetty) grubs, bogong moths, honey pot ants and green tree ants.

    CSIRO entomologist and report co-author, Dr Bryan Lessard, said the report highlighted the importance of supporting and promoting First Nations-led enterprises.

    “The roadmap draws on the expertise of Australian and international scientists, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, insect farmers, food processing industry leaders and chefs, to set out the challenges and opportunities presented by one of the world’s richest sources of protein and other micronutrients,” Dr Lessard said.

    “Australia has a high diversity of native insects. Working with First Nations enterprises, many species have the potential to be sustainably harvested or grown in low impact farms, to be turned into new and delicious Australian foods for us and our pets.

    (My holding.)

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      RoscoKH

      Yep, CSIRO have done the “SCIENCE”, so it must be true. Quick, give them another $100m and they’ll research it even further.

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    AbysmalSpectator

    As far as I am concerned the eco-warriors can eat these and advertise their penance until the cows come home, at which point I will have a steak.

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    David Maddison

    Australia has 14 insect farming businesses. Ten are for animals, 4 for human consumption.

    https://blog.agthentic.com/yes-there-is-a-market-for-insect-farming-in-australia-and-its-growing-fe9f7f3a7ca5

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      Stuart Hamish

      Somehow I very much doubt insects are regular menu items on the dinner plates of Mike Cannon Brooks , Simon Holmes a Court , Chris Bowen ,Tim Flannery and Anthony Albanese ….or indeed the CSIRO top brass ….Trying to attach First Nation’s romanticism to insect consumption wont make them any more appealing ….Arthropod insects emit enormous amounts of methane so how do they address that conundrum ?

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    David Maddison

    This is the disUnited Nations web page behind the promotion of insects for human consumption.

    https://www.fao.org/edible-insects/en/

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    Tarquin+Wombat-Carruthers

    Shouldn’t they first get the crickets’ opinions?

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    TdeF

    You would have to compare this with the snail restaurants in China. Huge place in Shanghai floors of Black giant snails on every plate. You could say it’s a primitive form of pest accommodation. Snails eat the rice, so you eat the snails.

    Very much like Australia’s wheat. Crickets devastate eat the wheat so we give up and make a meal of the crickets, grasshoppers or locusts in the Order of Orthoptera. And the world knows Australians love cricket. And our women’s team won the Cricket Gold medal in Birmingham (the men’s match in Durban was cancelled)

    So what’s next on the menu for our cricket loving Nation, Mallee mice with Mayonnaise? Cane Toad Canneloni?

    And to think, we are saving the planet.

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    TIP

    lol – FLOUR is the attempt to group this animal product with grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds (..you know….flour)

    Like common fish powder or beef powder, it is a “cricket powder”…try marketing that, or a “cricket meal” but meals are predominately pet and livestock feed.

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    Ronin

    ” Sustainably farmed”, what do they feed them on ????

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    Angus

    Cochineal is made of crushed insects…so cricket flour won’t be the first insect you eat…

    Even so…

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    David Maddison

    Insects are the food of the poor, technologically backward peoples of the world.

    As soon as they are introduced to modern agricultural methods, as have been developed by Western Civilisation for the last several thousand years, primitive peoples stop eating insects and enjoy REAL DELICIOUS MEAT.

    The Left are doing this specifically to lower our standard of living.

    It’s nothing to do with the environment because the food conversion ratio of crickets and chickens is about the same (1.5 And 1.6 respectively).

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      PeterW

      David is correct.
      Insect eating has long been a thing in communities that are generally starved for protein, or just starved in general.

      As the Asian economies – the most obvious group of cultures in which if it moves, it is food , the demand for red meat has risen along with prosperity. The new middle classes want meat.

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    “With Natural Cheddar Cheese Flavoured Powder”………….

    Thank goodness for that.

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    Geoffrey Williams

    We are now into a new era of ‘junk food’ but this time round it will be approved by all those climate alarmist lefties afraid to speak the truth ..

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    RoscoKH

    Cow farts, invisible gases, virus no worse than a cold, eating crickets – when will all this madness end?

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    Zane

    But wouldn’t a white person eating a witchetty grub be classed as inappropriate cultural appropriation?

    Not sure if we will be allowed to eat them.

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      PeterW

      Any indig complaining about that in English, via any form of written, electronic or digital communication….. is a hypocrite.

      Bardi-grubs taste quite good, BTW, but they are a lot of work to get a feed.

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    cadger

    And, yes, as your faithful correspondent, I’ve tried them. Beondegi, South Korean silkworm pupae. They were disgusting. While some Koreans like them, the vast majority of people prefer meat.

    My wife asked her Korean dad why he ate them in the past. “We were poor!” he said.

    https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1558810372970352640?s=20&t=Ha8gTXkqFnqZoYzls12NwA

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    lyntonio

    A good Mexican Catskinner– (from 1973)- Bob Lazo freshman, forestry. Montana University.

    The group in Dallas is considering investing in a large cat ranch near Juarez,
    Mexico. It is their purpose to start with about one million cats. Each cat
    averages about 12 kittens a year. Skins can be sold for about 20 cents for the
    white ones, and up to 40 cents for the black ones. This w ill give the operation
    12 million cat skins a year to sell at an average price of about 32 cents. This
    makes the revenue about $3 million a year or about $10,000 a day, excluding
    Sundays and holidays.

    A good Mexican catskinner can skin about 50 cats per day at a wage of $3.15 a
    day. It w ill take only 633 men to operate the ranch, so the net profit w ill be over
    $8,200 a day. The Mexican government is all for this in the interest of fuller
    employment.

    The cats will be fed on rats exclusively. Rats multiply four times as fast as cats.
    The group would start a ranch next to the cat farm. If they start with a million
    rats, there will be four rats a day per cat.

    The rats will be fed on the carcasses of the cats that are skinned. This will give
    each rat one quarter of a cat. You can see by this the proposition is a clean
    operation, self-supporting and nearly automatic throughout. The cats eat the
    rats and the rats eat the cats and our group gets the skins.

    Let me know if any of you are interested. They want as few people in at the
    start as possible. Eventually, it is their hope to cross the cats with snakes.
    Snakes skin themselves twice a year. This would save the labor cost of skinning
    as well as give the group two skins for one cat.

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      PeterW

      This will be me when they start paying us to not raise cattle and sheep.

      My friend, Ed Peterson, over at Wellsburg, Iowa, received a checkfor $1,000.00 from the government for not raising hogs. So I want togo into the “not raising hogs” business next year. What I want to know is, in your opinion, what is the best kind offarm not to raise hogs on and what is the best breed of hogs not toraise? I want to be sure that I approach this endeavor in keepingwith all governmental policies. I would prefer not to raiserazorbacks, but if that is not a good breed not to raise, then I wouldjust as gladly not raise Yorkshires or Durocs. As I see it, the hardest part of this program will be in keeping anaccurate inventory of how many hogs I haven’t raised. My friend, Peterson, is very joyful about the future of thebusiness. He has been raising hogs for twenty years or so, and thebest he ever made on them was $442.00 in 1968, until this year when hegot your check for $1,000.00 for not raising hogs. If I get $1,000.00 for not raising 50 hogs, will I get $2,000.00 fornot raising 100 hogs? I plan to operate on a small scale at first,holding myself down to about 4,000 hogs not raised, which will meanabout $80,000.00 the first year. Then I can afford an airplane. Now another thing. These hogs I will not be raising will not eat100,000 bushels of corn. I understand that you also pay farmers fornot raising corn and wheat. Will I qualify for payments for notraising wheat and corn not to feed the 4,000 hogs I am not going toraise? I want to get started as soon as possible as this seems to be a goodtime of the year not to raise hogs and grain. Also, I am considering the “not milking cows” business, so send meany information on that too. In view of these circumstances, you understand that I will betotally unemployed and plan to file for unemployment and food stamps. Be a*sured you will have my vote in the coming election.Patriotically yours,

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      Lucky

      lyntonio! That is a great story, I remember seeing it in 1978 and was looking for it to put here as it fits so well.
      I have always intended to do a proper cost analysis on that proposal but my eyes fill with water from so much laughing.

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    Zane

    I prefer to not knowingly eat insects.

    Dinner tonight for me is gnocchi with a meaty homemade Bolognese sauce, topped with grated cheese, half a ripe avocado, and a hardboiled egg.

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    Anton

    Brings a new meaning to the Australian cricket team.

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    Philip

    I actually don’t have a problem with it. If it works it works. Industrial food is highly processed anyway. Who has any idea what is in it? I don’t. So if it’s cricket flour, so what? I try not to eat processed food anyway as a general rule, though I do like a Big Mac.

    But of course, all the eat ze bugs propaganda is annoying hogwash. But if it’s a fashion food, good, I’ve mass reared insects before, I’ll grow them and sell them.

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    aspnaz

    Is that bag recycleable? No? So just like all the other corps that talk green then ship tons of plastic. As if nobody notices? We need to start putting these people in care.

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    CHRIS

    If you knew what is in devon, you nwould puke.

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    Serge Wright

    If you were a vegan because you loved animals and hated vegetables, you’ll now get a new excuse of being an insect hater.

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    Jonesy

    Peasant food!

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