We must eat bugs to fight global warming....
"""Supporters hope that the environmental benefits can help people overcome such disgust reactions. The food and agriculture sector ranks third in global greenhouse gas emissions, behind power production and transportation. With the world’s population projected to hit nine billion by 2050, we’ll need more food than ever. Plus, rising temperatures can make that food more difficult to grow in many places.
That has put the spotlight on meat. A 2013 report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that livestock account for 14.5 percent of manmade greenhouse gas emissions, while mainstream American practices, like using soy and wheat for feed, make it worse.
Bugs, by contrast, don’t emit harmful gases directly, and they use far less feed and water. According to the FAO, crickets use six times less feed than cattle and twice as much as pigs for the same amount of protein (although a recent University of California study has said some of those estimates might be overstated). Here’s how a well-known entomophagist described it to the New York Times Magazine in 2008: “Cows and pigs are the SUVs; bugs are the bicycles.”"""
“Out poked two antennae”: Crafting an insect-based dinner party
It's an evening of entomology—cooking, eating, and trying to understand an insect diet.
by Jason Plautz - Mar 7, 2016 2:30pm UTC
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/this-could-be-the-food-of-the-future-if-you-can-handle-it/2/
