The Lepsis Is a Terrarium For Growing Edible Insects At Home 184
An anonymous reader writes "A recent UN report suggested that people should be eating more insects, because they're much less harmful to the environment that traditional meat. In response, designer Mansour Ourasanah has created the Lepsis, a small insect breeder that could be used to grow and harvest grasshoppers in urban homes."
why not garden and have chickens instead? (Score:4, Interesting)
also if you have a yard, you could parcel off a small bit of it for a chicken coop for not too much money and grow your own eggs / chickens
I think I'll probably try things like that before I raise insects for food.
Re:this is a ridiculous recommendation (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't think you have a clue how bugs will be consumed if/when they are. The won't be raised on small farms and sold/eaten whole. They'll be produced in huge industrial plants where the process can be mostly automated. They'll then be processed and ground up in to a paste and sold as a protein product to be made in to other food. Gross? Yeah, but that's pretty much how the meat packing industry works now anyway. Meat is often an industrial processed product, thus the "pink goo".
The only thing that separates a beef burger and a bug burger is the source of the ground-up protein.
Re:I'm sorry, but... (Score:2, Interesting)
Also, animal fat (even from organic, free range, etc. animals) is just really bad for you... heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer, etc.
Wrong bucko! Wheat is the killer causing those diseases, that and the low fat diet that has plagued this country since the USDA started telling us how to eat (lot of whole grains). Grains are sugars, that's why kids like bread. That way of eating profits agro-chemical companies to the detriment of our health and that of the environment.