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A Guide to Buying Edible Insects

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday September 11 2016, @10:41PM   
from the fraternities-everywhere-rejoice dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

When potato chips and cheese doodles lose their luster, celery and carrots don't pack enough punch, and nostalgia for SERE School grips you:

Welcome to the exciting world of entomophagy! Below you will find a list of North American companies producing edible insects in various forms - from snack bites to protein powder to roasted whole. Start wherever you're comfortable.

Are you ready to eat some insects? The facts are out and it's hard to argue with them – insects are the perfect answer to people's desire for protein without the environmental costs that go along with animal agriculture. Raising insects for human consumption uses far less water, land, and food than livestock, and insects emit almost no greenhouse gases.

From the Entomo Farms website: "These insects contain 70% protein, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach, and almost 20 times the amount of B12 as beef."

Also, overcoming antipathy toward eating insects is a useful post-SHTF (S* Hits The Fan) skill...

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• organic natural red food dye is bugs organic natural red food dye is bugs (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday September 12 2016, @11:45AM

  by VLM (445) on Monday September 12 2016, @11:45AM (#400637)

  Soylent Green is people, but organic natural red food dye is bugs.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal [wikipedia.org]

  One of the many benefits of a natural organic lifestyle is getting to eat bugs. Of course as you'd guess a fraction of the population is allergic to the natural dye and the artificial dye in addition to being about 4x cheaper is non-allergenic.

  Note that it dyes organic stuff in general including textiles and IIRC even normies like my crafty SiL have heard that some people are allergic to organic red yarns. Or maybe it was my MiL who told me. Anyway "there's a red dye for food and fabric made of bugs that some people are allergic to" is a thing out there in normie land not just wanna be ex-chemist land.

  I could swear there's at least one other food coloring made of bugs that isn't part of the whole Cochineal-byproducts process stream (like uses totally different bugs to get a nice yellow or something)

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• Re:organic natural red food dye is bugs Re:organic natural red food dye is bugs (Score: 2) by iWantToKeepAnon on Monday September 12 2016, @01:32PM

  by iWantToKeepAnon (686) on Monday September 12 2016, @01:32PM (#400683) Homepage Journal

  So, Soylent Red is insects! (??)

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  • Re:organic natural red food dye is bugs (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday September 12 2016, @02:00PM

    by VLM (445) on Monday September 12 2016, @02:00PM (#400706)

    Could be people are bugs

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis [wikipedia.org]

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