Expert predicts shops will be selling insects as food by 2020

reilig

The European Union is reportedly spending almost €3m investigating the nutritional value of eating insects, which they believe will relieve food shortages and help save the environment.

Small grasshoppers offer 20% protein and just 6% fat, compared to lean ground beef's 24% protein and 18% fat.

Insects also emit less greenhouse gases than cattle and require less feed, supposedly making them environmentally friendly.

One academic involved in the research is predicting that people will be buying insects in supermarkets by 2020.



Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/expert-predicts-shops-will-be-selling-insects-as-food-by-2020-519429.html#ixzz1XHNXOKbD

johngalway

I.Don't.Think.So.

That's less than 9 years away. Can't see Joe Public sitting down to a cricket burger before the match TBH.

They're regularly eaten in parts of the world but I think there's a chasm of a culture gap to be filled there and 9 years isn't going to do it.

Tipp Man

They'd do anything rather than pay a proper price for their food

Will stick to the steak and lamb myself;)

Birdnuts

Eating insects is common outside the West and I've eaten grasshopper and terminte myself - very tasty, a bit like shrimp prawn etc.. In any case our new masters from the East like China/India will ensure a massive market for this type of product in the near future so we need to gear up to exploit a potentially lucrative new export market:)

limo_100

we'll have to chance the slats the the slatted houses so

charlemont

Id be willing to try them, I bet they are real crunchy, hmmm.

sh1tstirrer

reilig wrote: »

The European Union is reportedly spending almost €3m investigating the nutritional value of eating insects, which they believe will relieve food shortages and help save the environment.

Small grasshoppers offer 20% protein and just 6% fat, compared to lean ground beef's 24% protein and 18% fat.

Insects also emit less greenhouse gases than cattle and require less feed, supposedly making them environmentally friendly.

One academic involved in the research is predicting that people will be buying insects in supermarkets by 2020.



Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/expert-predicts-shops-will-be-selling-insects-as-food-by-2020-519429.html#ixzz1XHNXOKbD

Why buy them? Just lift the nearest stone.

Micheal H

I can see this becoming a reality. It will have to, because a the current rate of population growth, the West's "normal" diet is going to be unsustainable.

I don't know why there's such a distinction made between eating something like this:


and not eating something like this:

johngalway

Micheal H wrote: »

I don't know why there's such a distinction made between eating something like this:


and not eating something like this:

Invite some people over for dinner and try it

pakalasa

.. and people think you need good fencing for sheep.
If those little fellas break out, no point trying to round them up.:D

milkprofit

What will be penalty for only one tag in u cricket:mad: