U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
(2013)
In fact, some two billion people eat a wide variety of insects regularly, both cooked and raw; only in Western countries does the practice retain an "ick" factor among the masses.
...latest recommendation from the United Nations: Consume more insects.
U.N. Urges Eating Insects; 8 Popular Bugs to Try
From beetles to stinkbugs, people in dozens of countries eat insects.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/130514-edible-insects-entomophagy-science-food-bugs-beetlesAnd raising and harvesting insects requires much less land than raising cows, pigs, and sheep. Insects convert food into protein much more efficiently than livestock do—meaning they need less food to produce more product. They also emit considerably fewer greenhouse gases than most livestock (think gassy cows).
Spomenuti PDF...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e.pdfEdible insects
Future prospects for food and feed security
Edible insects are a promising alternative to the conventional production of meat, either for direct human consumption or for indirect use as feedstock. To fully realize this potential, much work needs to be done by a wide range of stakeholders. This publication will boost awareness of the many valuable roles that insects play in sustaining nature and human life, and it will stimulate debate on the expansion of the use of insects as food and feed.
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Sudeci da to promicu vrli strucnjaci, i to odavno, a prozivljavajuci vec takvo slicno globalno strucno znanje i ideje s "malim nevidljivim", za ocekivati je da ce se ubrzo na drustvenim mrezama cenzurirati sve i svakoga tko ima za reci nesto protiv pohanih insekata s kojim god okusom hocete...
Jasno je da se radi samo o jos jednom biznisu vecih kompanija, koje su sada spremne, kako bi mogli uloziti jos manje a iskoristiti druge jos vise. A jos kada tome pridruzimo i smanjenu emisiju CO2... odmah sam ganut, ma, to je to! Konacna odluka vodja i velikana: jedu se kukci!*
Vegetarijanci ili mesojedi, organic ili all natural korisnici, vjernici ili oni drugi, ili pak obicna raja koja jede sve ponudjeno na policama marketa - ne mijenja nista ukoliko se kukci namecu kao obavezni dio proizvoda - zohar ce uvijek biti samo zohar, makar bio samljeven i imao okus puretine.
Gotovo sam siguran da ce se na policama trgovina uskoro pojaviti i novi simbol na ambalazama, npr "no bugs added" ili "bugs free", i da ce ti proizvodi isto biti klasificirani kao "zdrava hrana" po naravo za ocekivati znacajno visoj cijeni.
Pitanje glasi da li i zbog cega vjerujete tim simbolima, izmislila ih je ista industrija...?
* vazi samo za raju