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Posts: 17153 | Location: Texas | Registered: May 13, 2003
My oldest son is now working on completing his PHD thesis at LSU. It is on crickets as an alternative protein source. His course work is in food science. His research is not on whether we should or should not use crickets, but rather on the reactions of people in the US to using such a protein source. Among other things they prepare standard recipes for many common food products and have both trained and untrained test subjects give their reactions. They give them products to try then let them know afterwards of the cricket ingredient then measure reactions. I won't go into it any further, but all the major food producers in the USA see this as a viable food source in the very near future.
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Posts: 915 | Location: Acadiana | Registered: February 14, 2009
Originally posted by cslinger: Chocolate covered crickets aren’t bad.
I’ve heard as much, and the same for ants; those are basically confections though. The amount of insects that would be needed to actually sustain a person (pound for pound) would be ridiculously large. For example, about 1000 crickets are in a pound- live weight. A pound of cricket protein powder contains about 4500 crickets and costs twice as much as cheaper protein alternatives.
I see insects as designer food; I cannot imagine how large an operation would be necessary to sustain a population of significant size.
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This is just another example of how all of these dooms-day predictions are nothing more than a money grab. Sometimes by an individual as in this case (The book PJW is talking about). And sometimes by whole organizations.
People who eat up this trope have no idea how these scenarios have been around since the 60s.
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Posts: 6896 | Location: Atlanta | Registered: April 23, 2006
Not to mention, shrimp, crabs, etc...