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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (94331)	5/16/2008 11:53:05 AM
From: Merlinson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

The Costs of Meat and Fish. Guys, there is lots of food out there. Take a look at this link: sciencenews.org Here is a snippet: Many people don’t want to eat just greens, grains, and pulses (like beans). In truth, I don’t. However, there is another source of animal protein that may prove dramatically more sustainable than fish and hoofed livestock. Insects. Alright, it may take a bit of work to wrap your head around the idea of this—especially if you grew up in the States. We’re talking ants, grasshoppers, and beetles. There was a time that the arrival of hordes of locusts blackening the skies was a time for rejoicing. Hungry farmers would see this as a smorgasbord of animal protein that could be gathered by the bucketsful. Eaten raw, fried with onion and chilis, or roasted for consumption throughout the months ahead, this was nutritionally high-quality animal protein. And you didn’t have to chase it. It came to you. Those old enough to remember shipments of food aid to starving masses in Ethiopia and Somalia during the ‘70s and ‘80s may also remember scandals describing hundreds if not thousands of tons of wheat flour that arrived at its destinations spoiled by infestations of beetles, notes Victor B. Meyer-Rochow of Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. “But that’s really nonsense,” he argues, because those beetles were nutritionally more valuable than [the grain] that people were trying to protect.” Bottom line, diets throughout the globe have been changing. And if we all want reliable access to animal protein, we may have to embrace mini-livestock—the six-legged kinds.