I have eaten the bugs in Thailand. I tried scorpion once it was terribly bitter. Most were drunken one time forays with a few exceptions: I like the ant larvae salad, which my mother in law gathered in season (I had a problem with eating the live ants) and she also collected mang noom in May or so every year, which is a type of large beetle. She used to say that ze bugs were her bestsellers with farang, but since the backlash over the eating ze bugs thing, you can't find anyone that sells them in Phuket anymore. I suppose I always differentiated among traditional foods and those that involve massive corporate investment..
There's no way I can do any better than Paul Driessen on this topic, so here he is:
"Of course, natural forces can’t drive climate hysteria and WEF-Gore-Biden anti-fossil-fuel agendas. Fear-mongering political, activist, media and academic elites therefore ignore them. In the Real World, the wondrous reality is that, after centuries of excruciatingly slow progress, agricultural advances over the past 75 years have been nothing short of astonishing. Dr. Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution employed plant breeding techniques that multiplied yields of vital grain crops, saving hundreds of millions of lives.
"Since 1950, American farmers increased per-acre corn yields by an incredible 500% and other crop yields by smaller but still amazing amounts – while using used less land, water and fuel … and fewer fertilizers and pesticides per ton of produce. Their exports helped slash global hunger and malnutrition even further. Meanwhile, despite supposed impacts from manmade climate change, farmers in Brazil, India and many other countries have also enjoyed record harvests.
The full article is here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/20/waging-war-on-modern-agriculture-and-global-nutrition/ The point is that there's no reason to eat bugs unless you're into that--or unless you're into genocide. To the WEF, WHO, UN, and other assorted Nut Zero psychopaths, the saving of hundreds of millions of human lives is a bad thing. To anyone else the fact that science, innovation, creativity, and ambition combine to feed more people on less land with fewer resources is a net positive.
Now one must realise why there is also an attack on water so it can be privatized for the sole benefit of industrial speculative investors.
Electricity production using Wind (Turbines) and Sun (Solar) has been allowed and sponsored by taxpayers (subsidies) and consumers (Higher Tariffs) as well as their transmission lines (extension cords) and re-distribution for (wheeling) being taxpayer subsidised.
Water is a fuel source for Hydrogen production an Green hydrogen will need water. The RE Wind & Solar and Coal & Nuclear will be used to split the H20 molecule into hydrogen and oxygen to make even more expensive Green Hydrogen sponsored by Taxpayers for the sole benefit of its producer and more subsidies of course to store the Hydrogen. Consumers will pay for the higher costs. All aboard the Gravy Hydrogen Train
In Africa especially Southern Africa many of the indigenous locals eat some insects.
In South Africa especially in the Northern provinces (North West and Limpopo (as well as Zimbabwe and Zambia eat Mopani worms fresh and dried.
When I was at school in the 1970's in a town called Pietersburg now called Polokwane you could buy the dried Mopani worms. We also ate certain flying ants that tasted like butter when we were in boarding school.
Of course we eat honey too which is like a special bee milk.
It can be gross when you see in China they mix snake blood with Moutai alcohol (very potent) and drink it. I tasted it in China in 2000 while on a business trip. Of course the alcohol will kill the microbes in the blood Quite a disgusting idea, is it not?
I have eaten the bugs in Thailand. I tried scorpion once it was terribly bitter. Most were drunken one time forays with a few exceptions: I like the ant larvae salad, which my mother in law gathered in season (I had a problem with eating the live ants) and she also collected mang noom in May or so every year, which is a type of large beetle. She used to say that ze bugs were her bestsellers with farang, but since the backlash over the eating ze bugs thing, you can't find anyone that sells them in Phuket anymore. I suppose I always differentiated among traditional foods and those that involve massive corporate investment..
There's no way I can do any better than Paul Driessen on this topic, so here he is:
"Of course, natural forces can’t drive climate hysteria and WEF-Gore-Biden anti-fossil-fuel agendas. Fear-mongering political, activist, media and academic elites therefore ignore them. In the Real World, the wondrous reality is that, after centuries of excruciatingly slow progress, agricultural advances over the past 75 years have been nothing short of astonishing. Dr. Norman Borlaug’s Green Revolution employed plant breeding techniques that multiplied yields of vital grain crops, saving hundreds of millions of lives.
"Since 1950, American farmers increased per-acre corn yields by an incredible 500% and other crop yields by smaller but still amazing amounts – while using used less land, water and fuel … and fewer fertilizers and pesticides per ton of produce. Their exports helped slash global hunger and malnutrition even further. Meanwhile, despite supposed impacts from manmade climate change, farmers in Brazil, India and many other countries have also enjoyed record harvests.
The full article is here: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/20/waging-war-on-modern-agriculture-and-global-nutrition/ The point is that there's no reason to eat bugs unless you're into that--or unless you're into genocide. To the WEF, WHO, UN, and other assorted Nut Zero psychopaths, the saving of hundreds of millions of human lives is a bad thing. To anyone else the fact that science, innovation, creativity, and ambition combine to feed more people on less land with fewer resources is a net positive.
Now one must realise why there is also an attack on water so it can be privatized for the sole benefit of industrial speculative investors.
Electricity production using Wind (Turbines) and Sun (Solar) has been allowed and sponsored by taxpayers (subsidies) and consumers (Higher Tariffs) as well as their transmission lines (extension cords) and re-distribution for (wheeling) being taxpayer subsidised.
Water (fuel for H) is being privatised. (see the article https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-water-snatchers).
Water is a fuel source for Hydrogen production an Green hydrogen will need water. The RE Wind & Solar and Coal & Nuclear will be used to split the H20 molecule into hydrogen and oxygen to make even more expensive Green Hydrogen sponsored by Taxpayers for the sole benefit of its producer and more subsidies of course to store the Hydrogen. Consumers will pay for the higher costs. All aboard the Gravy Hydrogen Train
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In Africa especially Southern Africa many of the indigenous locals eat some insects.
In South Africa especially in the Northern provinces (North West and Limpopo (as well as Zimbabwe and Zambia eat Mopani worms fresh and dried.
When I was at school in the 1970's in a town called Pietersburg now called Polokwane you could buy the dried Mopani worms. We also ate certain flying ants that tasted like butter when we were in boarding school.
Of course we eat honey too which is like a special bee milk.
It can be gross when you see in China they mix snake blood with Moutai alcohol (very potent) and drink it. I tasted it in China in 2000 while on a business trip. Of course the alcohol will kill the microbes in the blood Quite a disgusting idea, is it not?