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 Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 01:13 Post subject: Grow your daily source of protein at home! |
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Using a "Desktop Edible Insect Hive" that costs only 500 usd 
| Quote: | Now you can grow meat for dinner on your desk. Not chicken, but bugs: The Edible Insect Desktop Hive is designed to raise mealworms (beetle larva), a food that has the protein content of beef without the environmental footprint.
"Livestock is a key factor for climate change," says Austria-based designer Katharina Unger, founder of Livin Farms, the company making the new home farming gadget. "A large percentage of our diseases originate in animal production houses. Growing your own means knowing exactly what you eat."
While producing a single burger has the carbon footprint of driving 320 miles and can take hundreds of gallons of water, bugs require few resources; the mealworms in the hive can be fed on kitchen scraps. And while a burger might require 74 square feet of land (mostly for growing cattle feed), the hive is tiny.
"Insects give us the opportunity to grow on small spaces, with few resources," says Unger. "A pig cannot easily be raised on your balcony, insects can. With their benefits, insects are one part of the solution to make currently inefficient industrial-scale production of meat obsolete."
Unlike the kitchen-scale gadgets that some people are starting to use to grow vegetables, the hive can grow enough food to supply several meals a week; someone can harvest between 200 and 500 grams of mealworms a week, enough to replace traditional meat in four or five dishes.
The hive comes with a starter kit of "microlivestock," and controls the climate inside so the bugs have the right amount of fresh air and the right temperature to thrive. If you push a button, the mealworms pop out in a harvest drawer that chills them. You're supposed to pop them in the freezer, then fry them up or mix them into soup, smoothies, or bug-filled burgers. |
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3052692/fund-this/this-desktop-edible-insect-hive-grows-your-daily-protein-at-home
I have to say the idea is not the worst... but the world is not ready for that. Kinda like Soylent but even more disgusting (although I'd try both just out of curiosity).
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 01:18 Post subject: |
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its indeed a thing, or lets say -> market which is growing in the last months, maybe last year. here in germany you have a few online shops which sell that stuff. but tbh, its nothing for me. sure in other cultures, most like asia its a different. they eat stuff like that on a daily basis. and as your quote says too: its good for the environment and delivers many usefull stuff to the human body
but again, meh, nope, no way, sorry. im fine with crabs,shrimps, clams, whatever glitschy sea stuff (except oysters, that stuff is just disgusting) but nope, no insects for me. i ONCE tried chocolate with dunno, think it was mealworms. didnt taste bad, just like crunchy chocolate, but knowing whats inside does make it uneatable for me
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 01:27 Post subject: |
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I also believe it's a neat idea, especially in terms of costs/effectiveness ratio, but until there are pigs available on this earth I think I'll stick to my beloved bacon despite IARC's party pooper advices 
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 07:41 Post subject: |
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Oh god, I was basically joking about this in the mcdonalds thread.
Fuck my life it's already happening.
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 08:17 Post subject: |
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My favorite type of honey is called "Waldhonig" in german. It's a dark honey with a spicier taste. Just some years ago I accidentially discovered that it's actually not from pollen from flowers but from the butt-secrete (honeydew) of aphids. The bees go and collect that to create the honey. I still eat it, even though the simple thought of eating something that came out of the butt of an insect was disgusting enough  Somehow I'm ok if it's mixed with insect spit though 
And I was also shocked to read that some red food colorings are made from said insects. The so called carmine or E120 in your food (f.e. skittles or m&m) is made from crushed and dryed female cochinael.
The covering on lots of chocolate based sweets is made with some bugs butt juice.
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Somehow I can imagine that if these insects are prepared in a way that they are not obviously identifiable as insects and then pressed into some sort of "known" form and fried or whatever, I could eat them. Given that the final product has a totally different and nice name and nobody tells me what the source of my proteins is 
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Last edited by PumpAction on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 08:32; edited 1 time in total
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 10:19 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 11:52 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 12:01 Post subject: |
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Good thing you Germans inform each other about eating poop.
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 12:11 Post subject: |
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Oh I'm quite sure you eat the same poop, just nobody is telling you kaaskoppen Actually cheese is cow poop. Don't believe me? Look it up!
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 12:14 Post subject: |
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TSR69
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 12:26 Post subject: |
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So we export poop to the Germany?
Edit: pooooo
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 12:34 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 13:15 Post subject: |
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Edit: Drink the piss... drink drink the piss....
Formerly known as iconized
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 13:38 Post subject: |
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Janz, what happened to the honey prices? I COULD get good and tasty honey from discounters 1 year ago for a decent price (<<3€) but now every shitty honey costs 5€ and up. I bought a cheap one at lidl and it tastes like sweet vinegar  I don't even know what to do with it. It's so sour/bitter/bad that I can't even use it as sweetener in some foods.. 
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 13:45 Post subject: |
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cause bees are a kinda endangered species, that cheap ass fuck honey from the discounter isnt real honey, best is: get contact to local beekeepers, they can make you nice prices (even below discounter prices for shitty honey if you buy enough) for high quality stuff. dont buy honey from big markets
im in luck, one of my relatives is a hobby beekeeper since ~30 years or longer, a good friend of mine does that too and we provide some place with trees for another local beekeeper where he can put up his population.
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 13:46 Post subject: |
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I want insect-butt-honey though 
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 14:20 Post subject: |
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I've never been a fan of honey - kinda funny considering the biggest amusement park when I was a kid being centered around bees and honey (Meli).
Back on-topic: I dunno why but eating insects in their entirety just creeps me out. Instead of trying to replace meat with shit like this, why not try to raise the water quality everywhere so fish can flourish again? Fish has a low ecological foot-print and is just as nutritious.
Also, a few years back I tried to eat no meat for a month. I ate lots of potatoes and vegetables with eggs and other replacement foods instead of meat and after a month I really really really craved a nice big piece of meat. All that replacement crap just lacks "bite". It's soft and squishy and has no real texture and it made dinner feel a lot less enjoyable.
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Nov 2015 16:03 Post subject: |
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btw how do you make sure that no other fly or whatever will go into your hive and then fuck up everything 
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or just visit a local farm with a shop aka hofladen, they always sell quality stuff from befriended keepers and whatever
