A lot of people -- including two in this household -- struggle with their affinity for eating bread, pasta, and other carby foods. However, I have found myself thinking that shunning carbs may not be such a bad thing. Particularly if it means not consuming crickets.
It has never occurred to me to be concerned about eating crickets, until I read about a cricket farm in California. In an effort to find an inexpensive source of protein, the company wants to grind up crickets and use them in foods like pasta, shakes, and pizza dough.
The company has already made a pizza dough in this manner and, incredibly, has not been forced to attend psychological counseling.
I'm not saying Ground Cricket Pizza Dough is necessarily coming to a store near you soon. But you might want to think about it. Possibly you, like me, would be happier not thinking about it.
The company emphasizes that a lot of hungry people can be fed this way.* Crickets are cheap, and require far fewer natural resources to raise than do other sources of protein, like cows.
The same can be said of stink bugs, presumably, but you don't hear anyone saying we should put them in our pasta. (If you do, please immediately incarcerate that person.)
Furthermore, the company asserts, the crickets are treated humanely, their body temp being slowly lowered until -- well, until they're humanely ground up into powder and added to pizza dough. A "protein supplement," the company calls it.
We can't help wondering how such foods would be labeled. Maybe "Supplemented with Humanely Raised Cricket," or "Contains Cricket Parts from Whole Crickets Happy in Their Lifetime."
If ever there was an unlikely ally in the efforts of the meat industry to stir up more interest in meat, this cricket farm must be it. Now just don't start putting cow parts in my pizza dough.
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*For the record, I am not a hungry person. Particularly if there's a chance crickets are on the menu.
2 comments:
More's the pity that stink bugs are not being considered as a protein source. People on Long Brick Row could cash in hugely.
I wonder, Dear Blog Person, if you could just once write about something that isn't stomach turning disgusting?
Hmmm, I suppose this means you would prefer not to hear about the beekeeper in China who was covered in 649 pounds of bees? (It is a world record, after all.)
Perhaps the story about a "belligerent" man dressed in scuba gear -- yes --at a McDonald's in your fair city would be a better choice. Has it been rainy up there or something?
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