“ Eating microbe is a enceinte idea ! ” blackguard succeeding - minded gourmets , the kinds of people whoeat waxworm tacoswillingly andfeed bug cookiesto their coworkers . But are louse like crickets and hopper really the root to our environmental and solid food - security measures woefulness ? Well … maybe not . Not entirely , at least .
https://gizmodo.com/i-ate-fried-caterpillars-and-so-can-you-512202482
https://gizmodo.com/bug-eating-is-a-great-idea-and-we-should-all-be-doing-m-1494525087
https://gizmodo.com/should-you-really-start-eating-insects-509900937
At Real Future , Alexis Madrigal reports on late findings that suggest bugs like “ cricket — delicious and effective though they may be — are not magical brute , who can simply be swapped into our existing food substructure to fix the cosmos ’s problems ” :
… the Cricket Theory of Food Futures might rest on rather wobbly ground , accord toa new study in the scientific daybook PLoS One . When University of California , Davis researchers Mark Lundy and Michael Parrella test cricket under different provender and erect conditions , they found that the monumental efficiency ( and therefore sustainability ) cricket are supposed to deliver did n’t quite materialize .
“ Compared to the industrial - scale production of chickens , cricket fed a domestic fowl provender diet showed slight improvement in protein transition efficiency , a central metric function in determine the ecologic footprint of grain - based livestock protein , ” write Lundy and Parrella .
So how do you leverage cricket protein most effectively ? Lundy and Parrella have some ideas , and Madrigal has somekey observations of his own .
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