Tuesday, November 28, 2023

ARE YOU EATING MORE INSECTS THAN YOU THINK?

Insectivores are protesting limited offerings for alternative eaters at COP 28 Dubai. While delegates can get time off from tofu by eating high on the camel at state banquets and discrete Meateasies, legions of Quango minions and amateur climagogues are subsisting on falafel.


A solution may already have arisen  in an unexpected quarter. While Bloomberg Green lobbies for a meat-free transition to Net Zero, and Newsweek  praises cricket, earwig & ant turducken on Thanksgiving tables:
About 80 percent of the world already eats insects, which are a fantastic source of protein. As Americans prepare for this year's Thanksgiving meal, perhaps it's time to consider the many merits of a bugcentric holiday feast.
health authorities are chasing fast food restaurants and food suppliers for letting insect parts creep into in their offerings.

Insectivores view this as  feature rather than a bug, for contamination means many meaty fast foods Vegans abhor are already insect-enriched , and thus fit for consumption as low-carbon climate conference fare, like that exotic all-American delicacy,


which deserves to be on the menu in Dubai because it combines two ingredients already prominent in the urban insect food chain by wrapping a cheese steak sub in a slice of pizza: