The diet revolution has arrived in the European Union.
In a ruling passed earlier this month, the European Union has allowed bugs, or the use of crickets as a powdered additive to be used in certain foods, including (but not limited to) cereal bars, biscuits, pizza, pasta-based products, and whey powder.
“Insects are a superfood which is healthy both for the planet, for its small carbon footprint, and for humans, as it provides many nutritional benefits,” says Gabrielle Wittock, the founder of Yuma, a Brussels-based start-up using cricket flour to make crispbreads and crackers.
As of yesterday, a food additive made out of powdered crickets began appearing in foods from pizza, to pasta to cereals across the European Union.https://t.co/HBIVBQxe9E
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) January 25, 2023
If this sounds gross, it (apparently) shouldn’t. The practice of eating bugs, also known as Entomophagy, has been around for thousands of years.
Americans are eating bugs, too. A study from Terro, an insect control company based in Pennsylvania, released a report that estimated that the average individual eats 140,000 insect pieces every year.
The FDA even allows it. Apple butter, for instance, allows for up to an average of 30 or more insect fragments per 10 grams, and an average of 1 or more rodent hair per 10 grams.
Thankfully, nobody eats apple butter. But people do eat chocolate, however. And there is an average of 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams.
The difference is that the FDA ‘allows’ small amounts, while the EU uses entire insects.
Also recently approved by the European Union for human is the use of Alphitobius diaperinus, otherwise known as mealworm.
The so-called ‘benefits’ of eating bugs
For starters, it’s high in nutrients and low in fat. Plus it tastes good, according to someone out there.
They describe the taste as nutty, with a similar flavor to shrimp and chicken. Grasshoppers, ant eggs, and wasps are considered a delicacy in several countries, according to John Coupland, PhD, CFS of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.
Another benefit, perpetuated mostly my climate change enthusiasts and members of the Greta Thunberg fan club, are that its good for the environment. It is resource efficient as it emits no greenhouse gas like pig farts do. In other words, it will save the planet.
Not only will it save the planet from climate change, many argue, but it will also stabilize the economic balance of around the globe by creating jobs insect farming. The insect farming business is expected to be worth 9.6 billion by 2030.
Opposition to this to these so-called ‘benefits’
We’ll never accept:
-Transhumanism.
-Vaccine passports.
-Living in fear.
-Eating bugs.
-Being slaves of the State.We don’t believe in your climate scam or COVID scam.
The World Economic Forum will be behind bars.
And the people will be free.
— Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) January 29, 2023
Bugs are loaded with allergens and bacteria. E. coli, and Campylobacter (an extremely infectious form of bacteria) are commonly found in creepy critters. It very well could make a person deathly sick.
Many red-blooded Americans agree that eating bugs is also just plain gross, and does nothing in saving the climate. Meat, on the other hand, can be life saving. It includes healthy fats, vitamin A, B and D. It has heme Iron which is more easily absorbable than just iron.
It also has Zinc, which is necessary in supporting over 300 bodily functions (like the creation of DNA, growth of cells, protein building, healing damaged tissue and supporting the immune system).
According to Chris Kesser, zinc is a necessary building block for everything from, supporting the structure in certain proteins and enzymes to the regulation of gene expression – and meat has plenty of it.
The meat industry, in comparison to what the bug industry could be in 10 years, is worth roughly $285 billion more, only.
It produces far more jobs than the insect farming business ever can (unless the FDA goes the route of the European Union and approves cricket powder in our pizza).
The author does not support eating cricket powder pizza, and recommends and medium-rare T-bone steak, instead.
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