Did You Eat Your Insects Today?

The environmental crazies are at it again. They have become ecstatic about the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report called 'Edible Insects: Future prospects for food safety and feed security' that triumphs why you should eat crickets and ants and all the rest of those critters we hate to see in the house. Yep! They want to "save the planet" (again) by changing my diet from donuts and burgers to sautéed moths or something like that. I think their eating so many ants may be affecting their brains.

It's all in the name of the latest trendy crazy environmental types who claim that eating insects is great for the "planet" insects are a "great source of protein with a tiny carbon footprint".  Odds are your dog wouldn't eat an insect dinner, so I am not going to either. If the global warming nuts really think that humans are killing the world with their...er..human habits, why don't they address the only real environmental issue that threatens humanity. That one would be overpopulation. In truth, overpopulation is the cause of almost all environmental stress today, but they won't admit it. That too many people competing for a limited number of resources is a problem should be common sense. It seems that mentioning that the undeveloped world, which creates most of the excess number of babies born today, can't be told to stop having babies that are not properly cared for. Mentioning that fact is not politically correct. Instead, they want me to eat their cricket entrees.

I know that most of us eat a quarter of a kilogram of insects by accident each year because those insects find their way into our food no matter how hard we try to keep them out. Interestingly, if you eat organic, your rate of insect consumption is much higher. I am glad those heath bad environment crazies are eating a bigger share of what they like, but keep the bugs off my dinner plate. And I know that is not true that the eating of insects is something that humans resort to only when they are starving. Many cultures cherish the flavors and texture of insects because they got used to it long ago. They can have my share if they want.

Yes, I also understand that the only insects that  produce methane as a waste product (global warmers hate methane) are cockroaches, termites and scarab beetles. Yes, it is true  that getting our protein from insects would significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I doubt it is necessary or has much impact on nature. In  nature many animals eat other animals. Few don't eat ants. Just cutting the population would do far more than eating bugs. Too, the quality of life, at least most lives, is more greatly improved when eating a burger and fries instead of  crickets and moths.

We live in an age in which information technology can make anything instantly trendy, After all, people are encouraged to let others do their thinking for them and even identifying with crazy causes can make humans feel solidarity with each other. I just which that the trendy types would find more meaningful causes, more legitimate ones. Maybe if they set aside their bug dinners for a while and enjoy a nice steak or a plate of meatball lasagna they might be better able to focus on the real than the imagined.