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
Don’t spill any under the fridge or you get no sleep.
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Might come down with restless leg syndrome too.
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Crickets are good to eat when you’re on the hop…
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You’d have to be bats to eat cricket, or have balls
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Soylent Green is next.
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“Soylent Green is people.”
https://youtu.be/4UPDUpjkHg0
Incidentally the year Soylent Green was set in was 2022.
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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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Yes, she did say something to that effect.
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yes you are misquoting.
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Please correct my error and again, my apology
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Bad syntax. Kindly sow me the ways of my error.
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It is just a different context.
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Different in the human part or the insect part?
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You have no conception of context ….How many times have I proved that here ?
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Don’t insects emit methane?
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Termites in particular are large emitters of methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
All are claimed to be “greenhouse gases”.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.218.4572.563
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Also yeast is a large emitter of carbon dioxide, but no one has suggested stopping the production of bread, beer and wine
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Cricket farts.
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The Chappells?
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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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When you wish upon a star….
My how the world has changed.
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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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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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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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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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The old joke about the three legged chicken: there is three people in our family and we all prefer a leg. How does it taste? B*ggered if I know – we haven’t managed to Cath one yet!!!
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Or even ‘catch’!
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The only problem is the side effect, the uncontrollable urge to rub your thighs together.
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I think Freud spoke about that
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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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I see them everywhere… listing to port.
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Not listing port. Getting Vegan Neck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og2HP56MRbI
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I can’t see vegetarians eating them either.
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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
SEE LINK FOR REST
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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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That 13,000 tonnes of crickets might very well consume 20,000 tonnes of wheat.
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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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Well, feed the crickets to the chickens.
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Excellent – then the chickens can rub their thighs together, start a fire and self-roast
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Canada Oh Canada…
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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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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
(My holding.)
SEE LINK FOR REST
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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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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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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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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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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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Shouldn’t they first get the crickets’ opinions?
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I doubt they’d be too chirpy about it
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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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And I hate to think what the UN/IPCC say we have to eat for World Peace.
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Could we harvest locusts and process them for sale to the gullibles.
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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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” Sustainably farmed”, what do they feed them on ????
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Acres and acres of lush green feed, nourished with NPK fertiliser.
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Cochineal is made of crushed insects…so cricket flour won’t be the first insect you eat…
Even so…
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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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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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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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Cow farts, invisible gases, virus no worse than a cold, eating crickets – when will all this madness end?
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That’s the problem – never………
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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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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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https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1558810372970352640?s=20&t=Ha8gTXkqFnqZoYzls12NwA
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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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This will be me when they start paying us to not raise cattle and sheep.
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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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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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Brings a new meaning to the Australian cricket team.
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It’s Canadian though – aye.
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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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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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If you knew what is in devon, you nwould puke.
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exactly. I don’t eat it mind you but many do. Staple lunch for 1970s school kids.
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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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Peasant food!
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