What do the Bug Farms do with Bug Shit?

[LittleGreenMan]

Inquiring minds want to know: Is it a left-over that they plow back into the environment, or is part of what you'll be eating. I say you because I won't. When a few cows or pigs get away we all have a good laugh at the cops trying to round them up. Are we going to laugh while a few thousand pounds of bugs get away? When Joe Blow wants to farm his own land or change a farm into a chicken ranch they need to file for a permit and include an environmental impact statement that every Indian and greenie weenie gets to pick apart as though you want to shit in the street. Oh! Wait a minute, that's perfectly legal. "You mean you're going to lock these hens up in building??" "What kind of air-makeup system will you install? "Exercise yard?

As I understand it, the bug farms are located in cities. Are the people who live close enough to be affected by an inadvertent release of bug and/or bug shit notified of a public hearing of the details? I want to see and compare side-by-side the EIS of ordinary farms/ranches and bug farms. I also want to see a side-by-side nutrition comparison of beef & pork with bug "bodies". I'd like to see a panel discussion by proponents of bugs as food verses producers & proponents of Beef, chicken, & pork. Let's vote on it instead of having the government servants tell us what's good for us. Been there, done that.

 

[LittleGreenMan]

Hey Kiddies! This is a real question, and needs a real answer by you dumb shits out there in Wannabeland that are depriving me of my conservative one steak a week because it's now priced too high. You are regulating to death every maker of everything and food is going the way of the Dodo bird, escorting mankind to the door at the same time. Now, I'm old and past my sell-buy date, but you young morons are shooting me in the foot at the same time you are doing it to yourself and I'm not going quietly. There's already enough womanfood in the world and a plateful of bugs is a bridge too far for me. I want to see the math for the real costs of replacing 1,200 lbs. of steer with bugs. I don't believe for a New York minute that an 8 oz steak can be replaced dollar-for-dollar by bugs. If you're going to tell me that 3 oz of bug bodies is equivalent nutritionally, what about the pleasure of eating "things you like"? If you replace my steak do you also replace your 6 oz glazed jelly donut with 2 oz of whole wheat paste, or that bag of chips with something healthy that you don't like? There are thousands of things that others like that I don't, and if I have to give up what I like to make others happy, I want in-kind revenge. I want revenge upon you. Stand up so I can aim more accurately...

 

[LittleGreenMan]

Am I the only one concerned with how our children are going to deal with being served beetle soup, French fried worms and bug juice in school lunches? Will the ASPCA add cockroaches and mosquitos to their list of protected species? Will the presence of houseflies be required in commercial kitchens and flypaper outlawed? Will you need a license to herd blackflies in Alaska? I think I need a drink and a fix.