Seven in ten people unwilling to adopt a 'bushtucker trial' diet – including insects such as mealwor

[rangerrebew]

Seven in ten people unwilling to adopt a 'bushtucker trial' diet – including insects such as mealworms – in order to save the planet, study finds

    Food Standards Agency carried out survey on foods seen better for environment

    Results found 67% of people said 'nothing could make them try edible insects

    13% said they could be persuaded and 11% would if they 'looked appetising'

    While 37 per cent were willing to try insects if they were ground up into food

By Sean Poulter Consumer Affairs Editor For The Daily Mail

Published: 20:43 EST, 10 January 2022 | Updated: 20:43 EST, 10 January 2022

 

Seven in ten people are unwilling to adopt a ‘bushtucker trial’ diet – including insects such as mealworms – in order to save the planet.

The findings come from a study into alternative foods such as insects, meat grown in a laboratory and plant-based proteins, that are seen as better for the environment than meat and dairy.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) survey found 67 per cent of people said ‘nothing could make them try edible insects’, 13 per cent could be persuaded if they knew it was safe to eat, 11 per cent would if they ‘looked appetising’ and 37 per cent were willing to try insects ground up into food.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10388861/Seven-ten-people-unwilling-eat-edible-insects-order-save-planet-study-finds.html

[rangerrebew]

What happens when the claim insects are becoming extinct is thrown in the mix?

[EdinVA]

Another billion dollar worthless study...
What's next... the mating habits of termites...

[GtHawk]

I bet they could get more people willing to try it if they threw enough pot in the mix.

[Smokin Joe]

That sort of stuff is for when you are literally starving in the middle of nowhere.

Not a daily diet.

Once more, beef, mutton, even pork and chicken are, for the most part, plant based. (pigs and chickens will eat meat, too).

These creatures convert biomass not fit for human consumption into biomass that is.
There are tremendous numbers of by-products from the inedible parts, as well. Nothing gets wasted (one of the beauties of capitalism is finding ways to turn by-products into cash flow).
 
Besides, according to the NYT, "Now researchers report that termites, digesting vegetable matter on a global basis, produce more than twice as much carbon dioxide as all the world's smokestacks."
They also poot out about half a microgram of methane a day each, and while that might be a cute little fart, there are billions of them. They add up. Seems like such 'greenhouse gas solutions' might be worse than letting the occasional cow rip one off.
Enough of this silliness! Quit spending money on it, already. Go get a cheeseburger!