New Year, New Food Products! Insect Burgers???

Insects have long provided a much-needed source of protein to people all over the globe, and now companies are planning to introduce bug-based burgers and other foodstuffs to the Western market. Would you eat a burger made of maggots, crickets and mealworms?

Although vegetarians wouldn’t eat them—insects are, after all, animals—bug evangelists say the 2,000 or so species of edible critters have a lower carbon footprint and require less land than livestock and many grains. And various breeds have differing characteristics that fans say make them work as a food source:

• Mealworms are clean, odorless, and rich in minerals and vitamins;

• crickets and grasshoppers are loaded with protein;

• fruit fly larvae—most people call them maggots—have a mild taste and light color, so they’re easy to hide in foods;

• black soldier fly larvae will eat virtually any organic waste.

Chef Janine's Take

"As a chef and someone who honors the incredible variety of foods God created for us, I find the idea of eating insects not just unappetizing—but completely unnecessary. With such a rich abundance of clean, nourishing ingredients available from the earth, there's no need to turn to bugs for sustenance. To me, consuming insects feels like a step backward, not forward." — Chef Janine

So, go for it???

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Read more at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-03/fake-meat-industry-eyes-crickets-beetles-mealworms-maggots-for-burgers