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The author of the famous natural farming manifesto The One-Straw Revolution[0], Masanobu Fukuoka[1], was a microbiologist assigned by the Japanese army to evalu
by contingencies 8y ago
The author of the famous natural farming manifesto The One-Straw Revolution[0], Masanobu Fukuoka[1], was a microbiologist assigned by the Japanese army to evaluate the edibility of various insects encountered by the army as they spread across Southeast Asia. He concluded that almost all of them were edible.
I tried a cricket burger recently at the F&A Next[2] event at Wageningen, Europe's pre-eminent agricultural university[1], which may have even been sourced from the farm in this article. While the taste was OK, I literally woke up early in the morning with stomach pain.
[0] http://www.appropedia.org/images/d/d3/Onestraw.pdf http://www.appropedia.org/images/d/d3/Onestraw.pdf
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wageningen_University_and_Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wageningen_University_and_Rese...
- baybal2 8y ago>woke up early in the morning with stomach pain. Why?
- contingencies 8y agoI believe it was the burger, since it was the only thing I ate all day that could have caused such a reaction. Despite the experience I remain a big supporter of vegetarian food and meat alternatives. It's still early days for an industry that has to overturn deep cultural bias.