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2010-08-04 Home Front: Culture Wars
"Let them eat bugs," Says United Nations Policy Paper
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Posted by Fred 2010-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Van Huis proposes a two-phase plan: first just farming insects to feed to more conventional livestock; and then gradually introducing them directly to the menu for humans. "We're looking at ways of grinding the meat into some sort of patty, which would be more recognizable to western palates," he says.

A good place to start? The cafeteria at the Whorehouse on Turtle Bay.
Posted by tu3031 2010-08-04 00:23||   2010-08-04 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Van Huis should lead the way on this one.

And besides, they are called hamburgers and not bugburgers for a reason.
Posted by gorb 2010-08-04 00:38||   2010-08-04 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Shrimp & lobster are just bugs that live in the ocean.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-04 00:45||   2010-08-04 00:45|| Front Page Top

#4 D *** NG IT, NEXT THING YOU KNOW SOMEONE WILL DEVELOP FETAL SOUP + HUMAN STEAKS + INSECT COOKIES, ETC. FOR NORMAL DAILY COOKING + CONSUMPTION!

Oh wait....

Personally I blame HARRISON FORD + "TEMPLE OF DOOM".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-04 00:50||   2010-08-04 00:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Shrimp & lobster are just bugs that live in the ocean.

They, may be bugs, but they are tasty bugs.
Posted by gorb 2010-08-04 00:51||   2010-08-04 00:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not above eating bugs in survival situations. I've often said if a plague of locusts eats my crops, then I will grow fat on the locusts. But in the meantime, let the third world's burgeoning and unsustainable population eat insects, I'll eat what I can grow and raise.
Posted by Lowspark 2010-08-04 01:18||   2010-08-04 01:18|| Front Page Top

#7 We eat insects on a regular basis in our flower based foods, ground up. Not much but a trace. And that is enough insect nutrition for me.
Posted by twobyfour 2010-08-04 01:45||   2010-08-04 01:45|| Front Page Top

#8 August 2030. A consumer unit pulls up to the window of a McDonald's collective in his luxury, automobile, a 50cc cardboard tricycle, and places an order:
"I'll have a Bug-mac with a large order of flies."
"D'you want to super-size that, sir?" says the attendant, a destitute former capitalist.
"No, but leave off the mashed roach sauce, I hate the stuff."
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2010-08-04 03:07||   2010-08-04 03:07|| Front Page Top

#9 And besides, they are called hamburgers and not bugburgers for a reason.

They are called hamburgers because the style of sausage originated from Hamburg.

Otherwise its strange we are so averse to eating insects, as they form a large part of the diet of hunter gathers.

Posted by phil_b 2010-08-04 05:33||   2010-08-04 05:33|| Front Page Top

#10 It seems the trick to eating insects is to deep fry them. River bugs (look like cockroaches) were my favorite, taste like marshmellow
Posted by tipper 2010-08-04 05:37||   2010-08-04 05:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Not kosher except for that locust, per Lowspark's logic.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-08-04 06:15||   2010-08-04 06:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Next step: soylent green is people!
Posted by Spot  2010-08-04 08:09||   2010-08-04 08:09|| Front Page Top

#13 This is no surprise, because once a year, for decades now, delegates to the UN general assembly have voted that fried grasshoppers are their favorite snack. I'm not kidding.

Add that to the fact that, even though the western delegates have advanced degrees, the average education of *all* delegates is 5th grade. From a quarter to a third of delegates are illiterate, so are reliant on audio interpretation.

Several times, a resolution has almost passed, that would include varieties of "drum" as interpreted audio language.

And yet leftists still thing having these people rule the world would be a good idea.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-08-04 08:58||   2010-08-04 08:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Eat bugs? You first.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-08-04 10:16||   2010-08-04 10:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Pass the lemon butter, please.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-04 10:24||   2010-08-04 10:24|| Front Page Top

#16 Something seems wrong about wanting to eat bugs..
Posted by CB 2010-08-04 11:08||   2010-08-04 11:08|| Front Page Top

#17 Something seems wrong about wanting to eat bugs..

That's why they call them bugs.
Posted by gorb 2010-08-04 12:29||   2010-08-04 12:29|| Front Page Top

#18 While potentially easier to feed and raise, it'd be really hard to make a leather jacket from locust carcasses...
Posted by IG-88 2010-08-04 13:24||   2010-08-04 13:24|| Front Page Top

#19 I ahd a chocolate covered grasshopper once. It tasted like a chocolate covered grasshopper.
Posted by tu3031 2010-08-04 13:26||   2010-08-04 13:26|| Front Page Top

#20 Does Mr Van Huis live on bugs?
I think probably not.
He is an arrogant ass and should STFU.
Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-08-04 15:05||   2010-08-04 15:05|| Front Page Top

#21 the EyeWitless news always carries the same shit when Cicadas come out: how to bread and fry em, blah blah. Hey newslady? You first, you last, and no cheeseburgers in between. Keep munching!
Posted by Frank G 2010-08-04 19:21||   2010-08-04 19:21|| Front Page Top

#22 * DAILY TIMES.PK > {PAK Federal Minster on Envrionment HAMEDULLAH] CLIMATE CHANGE PROMPTING HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODS, in PAK + around the World.

and

* WMF > RUSSIA, CANADA SUFFER HIGH PRICES FOR GRAIN CROPS AS GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS WORSENS.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-04 21:27||   2010-08-04 21:27|| Front Page Top

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