Wednesday’s announcement means the grubs—actually beetle larvae—could soon be ground down and used as a protein-rich flour to make pasta and bread, or consumed whole in stir-frys and other recipes. The next steps involve getting marketing and labeling approvals, and for the European Commission to sign off on the European Food Safety Authority’s decision.
The ruling provides a lift for companies such as Micronutris, a French edible insect farm which filed the application, and other startups including AgriProtein of South Africa, Netherlands-based Protix, and another French company, Ynsect, which is building a new farm with production capacity of more than 100,000 tons of bugs a year.
The bigger question, perhaps, is whether Europeans will want to eat bugs—long a popular snack in parts of Asia and Latin America—even if they are ground down into flour. Giovanni Sogari, a researcher into social and consumption patterns at the University of Parma in Italy said many might find it difficult at first. “There are cognitive reasons derived from our social and cultural experiences, the so-called ‘yuck factor,’ that make the thought of eating insects repellent to many Europeans,” he said. “With time and exposure such attitudes can change.”
Wall Street Journal I would dearly like to write for you and the empirical majesty of wall street -Don't be a Wall Street that Fights the English Monarchs ownership of bullion (4bitcoin bullion)-but I say consumer exemplification consultation is good for coca-cola to do esp
Soon Lol, been here a long, long time.
Pairs well with the pangolin soup.
never will be on my plate
Its a bug, not a feature.
mar100rick JuniorSBrito
It’s really good to see that Europe is becoming mega hub of China. Well world had China not good enough of producing most kind of deadly viruses, Europe can participate in to bring in more of it.
An option in Europe? I can go to my backyard and eat them now 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Stop please! China is more than enough 😭
lol main stream media priming us for our further enslavement
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Next thing would be bats, and more virus
Pffff! Amateurs
This is the only food source in 50 years, so learn to love it people.
If U.S. keeps relying on China these worms are going to be our main source of nutrition.
No chlorinated chicken please, but give me an organic plastic eating worm ☺️
China is the reason 😁 Covid_19
ErF Karma to anybody thinking about hurting ME + Karma to them they kids they family and they business family oÈÉo
When the pollinators go extinct, we're all going to be eating insects for at least a portion of our food. And soylent maybe? Just don't eat the soylent green.
New Keto.
À vomir!
Before they kill us they'll humiliate us by making us est bugs.
I had crickets with chile powder in Mexico a few years ago, and they were very good. You do have to get over the 'eeww' response, but humans have always eaten bugs.
of course they are didn't you watch the Tarzan movie?
yes, eat em
MANAUS, BRAZIL It is NOT Incompetence It is NOT Ineptitude It is NOT Chance ... It is Choice ... It is Policy SOSManaus
Are they vegan friendly?
Absolutely Disgusting.
That is absolutely DISGUSTING. My daughter feeds those to her lizards.
Tastes like rising communism.
I am giving my share to anybody.
Can I get a McBugs with cheese and a large order of flies, please?
I'll pass
No thanks. I like beef.
yum.
translation: Our chinese masters said that after wearing masks and beign in home arrest, the next punishment will be stop eating meat (your polluters!) and start eating bugs. They are healthy! Meat are for the CCP.
If you're familiar with the Snowpiercer story, you already know the secret. The tail passengers are being fed what appear to be gelatinized cockroaches. As the main character, Curtis Everett discovers this you can see the disgust and nausea come over his face.
thanks for this news
WTF!!!!
Are we running out of chickens?
Soylent Green Is People!!
Hard pass
when you're about to experience global hunger this is the stuff you report on
Worms are not classiefied as insects
So, here we go: eat bugs, worms, bat poop, fish eggs, now we really have a health problem.
The EU catching up to science
Chinese menu under chinese surveillance scared by a chineses virus. Man up motherfuckers .
Thanks, I'm not eating bugs
Ok. First masks, lockdowns and now, bugs...welcome to the “new Normal”!
Whatever it takes. Orange🍊45 should not be allowed to RUN AGAIN for any office ..& TAXPAYERS should not PAY for a pension , lifetime Secret Service ,travel benefits, etc . ALL the dude should get is PRISON TIME for COVID deaths,caged babies,RAPE, INSURRECTION...etc.
In the desert we eat locusts a delicious meal .
If China were doing it, western press will call Chinese uncivilised eating worms. What a hypocrite !
God has made uncounted Food for human, still human need to eat INSECT.
Unfortunately Insects are not really cost efficient food 'Yet'
Hey, John the Baptist lived off Locust and Honey.
When I still lived in Africa fried flying ants and caterpillar were delicious delicacies ... now bugs are becoming gourmet .. I'd be intrigued to try as an adult with a westernised yet adventurous palate
yuck!
They eat crickets in South America. Chocolate covered crickets are a common sweet treat in some places! Bugs have a ton of good protein in them and can be a very reliable source of food in survival situations.
Most people don’t know that insects are more nutritious than other foods
The making of the next mad cow disease saga !
Just because the EU regulator decides that doesnt mean the people are going to eat it 😄
Maybe Brexit wasn’t such a bad idea after all 🧐
Fuck that.
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