Article

2023-01-26 -Great Cultural Revolution

It's Official: European Food Will Now Contain Crickets

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-01-26 12:30|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I did a deep dive into this.

Bug Armor (exoskeleton) is Chitin.
Bug Protein is ground up bugs.
Bug Protein contains Chitin.
Chitin digests into Chitosan.
Chitosan is cancer food.

Literally the white paper I read, they were using chitosan as a substrate to cultivate cancers for research.

A NIH article /study concludes - Chitosan promotes cancer progression and stem cell properties in association with Wnt signaling in colon and hepatocellular carcinoma cells.

Another paper I read - they target a Chitin Glucosamine found in cancer cells as a possible treatment for cancer.

"... although not found in normal mammalian cells, a chitin (β-1,4-linked N-acetyl-d-glucosamine) or a chitin-like polysaccharide (e.g., hyaluronan) may exist as a cancer-associated glycan..."

Posted by mossomo 2023-01-26 12:41|| 2023-01-26 12:41|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember when Eat Ze Bugz was a kookoo conspiracy.

Ah, October.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-26 12:59|| 2023-01-26 12:59|| Front Page Top

#3 *Shrug* Peanut Butter and Chocolate Milk contain 'bug parts' as well. Ever notice that Chocolate Milk isn't rated 'Grade A' like other milk? It's because insects get into the cocoa powder and get ground into itty bitty pieces during processing and they can't feasibly remove them. Same with that chocolate bar... Yum! Insect Protein!

Posted by magpie 2023-01-26 13:14|| 2023-01-26 13:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember back in school when the Killjoys had their moment of gross out the kids about modern food production. Chocolate Ice Cream was 'the worst'. Flour has a higher allowed parts per unit too, IIRC.

Its something to keep to a minimum rather than aspire saturation.

I am adventurous in my eating. There are bugs I'd try as a meal. Not as a lifestyle. Not crickets.

Along the lines of mossomo there, I remember when The Best Diet Protein Is Seafood, and all sorts went strictly seafood, and ended up with heavy metal poisoning.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-26 14:21|| 2023-01-26 14:21|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 Magpie, that is actually good news! Now after my workout, when I want protein to help build up the muscles I've just exercised, a good chocolate bar will be just the thing!

Posted by Tom 2023-01-26 15:26|| 2023-01-26 15:26|| Front Page Top

#6 When eating chocolate covered ants just pretend they're Raisinettes.

Posted by jpal 2023-01-26 15:49|| 2023-01-26 15:49|| Front Page Top

#7 This story, could have been from the Bee.

Yuck, "Let them eat ~~cake~~ bugs" sounds disgusting.

Posted by JohnQC 2023-01-26 17:49|| 2023-01-26 17:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Interesting that crickets is listed as one of the "clean food" in the Bible. Yet, I don't know any Jewish people eating them willing.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-01-26 18:16|| 2023-01-26 18:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Cornmeal anyone?

Posted by Beacis 2023-01-26 18:29|| 2023-01-26 18:29|| Front Page Top

#10 After watching 2022 unfold, I'm thinking of growing a chitinous exoskeleton myself.

Posted by SteveS 2023-01-26 19:19|| 2023-01-26 19:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Interesting that crickets is listed as one of the "clean food" in the Bible. Yet, I don't know any Jewish people eating them willing.

That’s the locust native to the Middle East, Seeking cure. When that flies, they eat everything green down to the ground, so God gave special permission. But about half the Jews of the world live where thr locust doesn’t, and most of the rest live in Israel, which understands both pesticides and preparing for this regular catastrophe, so they never get to the point where locusts are the only option.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-01-26 21:37|| 2023-01-26 21:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Ate fried crickets, scorpions and tarantulas in Siem Reap with bro in law and sis. The tarantulas still had hairy legs and were hard to get down.

Posted by Beavis 2023-01-26 21:53|| 2023-01-26 21:53|| Front Page Top

23:53 Rex Mundi
22:59 JohnQC
22:48 Super Hose
22:42 DarthVader
22:23 KBK
21:53 Beavis
21:37 trailing wife
21:35 Flomogum Slineting9256
21:33 trailing wife
19:33 Rambler in Virginia
19:19 SteveS
19:10 M. Murcek
19:02 Frank G
19:01 Frank G
18:52 Frank G
18:42 swksvolFF
18:38 Frank G
18:35 swksvolFF
18:29 Beacis
18:16 Seeking Cure For Ignorance
18:06 Anomalous Sources
17:59 JohnQC
17:49 JohnQC
17:30 Flomogum Slineting9256