Crickets the new beef?

[bat119]

MMM crickets VS beef? Call me sceptical I just don't think roasted crickets will catch on.

Bugs as livestock? A Canadian insect farm is taking cricket powder mainstream
Getting the cricket farm started
In 2013, the United Nations released a report detailing the benefits of eating insects. At the time, Goldin says he also saw investors on shows like Shark Tank buying stakes in companies that made consumer packaged goods with cricket powder.
It was then that he and his family saw an opportunity to farm crickets for consumption.
"In terms of the mechanization on the farming side, there isn't much precedent out there. We've really had to roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty and figure things out on our own," he says.
Entomo Farms currently has three barns, each about 20,000 square feet in size. The company raises what they call free-range crickets, which means there is lots of space for the insects to run around.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode...ream-1.4565666

http://entomofarms.com/future-of-food/#12reasons

[Little red riding hood]

Can we add mosquitoes to the menu? I know where to find some! And they're also free range! Raised without the use of hormones or antibiotics. Ought to be a good selling point.

[alacringa]

As the global population continues to increase, insects may become the most viable source of protein for a large number of people. They're not beef, but they are pretty good. I collect a feed or two of grasshoppers every summer. Fried gently with a bit of salt and chili powder and sprinkled with lime juice, they're quite tasty.

[Red Bullets]

I know one fellow that collects grasshoppers all summer and they are his only source of protein, by choice. He might be onto something. Free meat.

It's not just crickets ..... giant waterbugs have two 'fillets'or backstraps of protein. And they are already on the market in other countries.

[Grizzly Adams]

Hey, when we're down to eating insects and making meat in a lab, you know the world is totally screwed.

Grizz

[muledriver]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

Hey, when we're down to eating insects and making meat in a lab, you know the world is totally screwed.

Grizz

I think our ancestors main source of protein probably was bugs and slugs. Well, some bugs anyways.

[glen moa]

Eat them up. More beef for me

[bat119]

Nope not gonna happen pass the beef

[CaberTosser]

Personally, I'd sooner run the bugs through some chickens and then eat the birds.

[Little red riding hood]

Haha yup! Turkey's are great at huntin bugs!

[Mistagin]

I've got cousins in Ontario that have cricket ranches ; been 'farming' them for several years.
They run several million head of all ages .
Little buggers are hard to milk though
And ya oughtta see the roundups!!! Lotsa fun.

They started off providing crickets for the pet shop and pet food industry, and a few years ago they began experimenting with making 'flour' with them. I've tried it and it's quite tasty, and indistinguishable in look from plant based flours. They make pies and breads and pancakes and muffins, etc, whatever flour can be used for. It's rather healthy too, due to the protein value.

I'd buy and use it if it were more available.

[RandyBoBandy]

I find they fall thru the grills on the BBQ

[HunterDave]

I’ve spent some time in Eastern Asia and bugs are a staple there with street vendors selling them. I’ve tried several different types from deep fried locusts to what I think might have been centipedes. The deep fried stuff just tasted like the fat that they were fried in. Other than for the novelty, I wouldn’t eat any of them unless I was starving. I have to say that the salted beetles that I ate one time weren’t bad though.......similar to eating sunflower seeds but more filling. Rip the tiny head off, bite into them to crack the shell covering the wings, spit them out, and chow down. Not too bad at all.

[Peter Abelard]

Just like Snowpiercer.

[Smokinyotes]

I’ll stick to home raised, AAA grain fed finished steers. I will start eating insects about the same time I start eating coyote.

[Fish along]

Originally Posted by alacringa

As the global population continues to increase, insects may become the most viable source of protein for a large number of people. They're not beef, but they are pretty good. I collect a feed or two of grasshoppers every summer. Fried gently with a bit of salt and chili powder and sprinkled with lime juice, they're quite tasty.

Very interesting. I know a guy that would just pick up insects and just eat them like candy,,and another guy who would eat night crawling earthworms, I guess it's all mind over matter it would be stretch though before I'd give up the beef.

[Newview01]

Originally Posted by Smokinyotes

I’ll stick to home raised, AAA grain fed finished steers. I will start eating insects about the same time I start eating coyote.

I would probably eat many coyotes before an insect looked edible.

[Davey Boy]

Careful what insects you eat. This kid was paralyzed after eating a slug. Now I have eaten chocolate coated grasshoppers and ants as well as both deep fried and that was at school back in the mid 60's. Nothing special , but wasn't terrible either.

https://www.sfgate.com/world/article...a-12739679.php

[ETOWNCANUCK]

At least the crickets aren't genetically modified.

[Little red riding hood]

I've got a good use for nightcrawlers, I feed them to my fish which in turn fertilize my grow beds where my tomatoes and veggies grow. So in a round about way, I guess you could say they're on my menu.

[HighlandHeart]

Beats eating Soylent Green, but not by much.

[Little red riding hood]

Originally Posted by Davey Boy

Careful what insects you eat. This kid was paralyzed after eating a slug. Now I have eaten chocolate coated grasshoppers and ants as well as both deep fried and that was at school back in the mid 60's. Nothing special , but wasn't terrible either.

https://www.sfgate.com/world/article...a-12739679.php

Wow! Gotta wonder what the honeymooners were eating to get the worms!