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@@Kigoz4Life bruh... lmao

@@Kigoz4Life dude gross

@@Kigoz4Life cricket nipple jewlery

It’s no legend. Just look at Europe. There’s crickets in all the flour. I went to Safeway in Colorado and they were selling several things with crickets in it.

From Germany here. I don't see cricket flour in our super markets.

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That's actually what happened in most asian countries, they can be very invasive, that's why farmer hunt them at night.

@j j Locusts are edible too.

These are a tropical species of cricket. Look at the facility they're bred and raised in. It's covered in snow and ice. This is a cricket farm up north, where they cannot become invasive.

@@Bunny-ns5ni whatever species it is, where ever it’s from, people have already turned it into food already.

Cheaper than farming cattle but more expensive than farming grain.

@@flamesofjihad4069 except it isnt if it was what.. $12 for was it 4 oz? i forget. thats roughly $50 a pound.

That is because it is still small-scale relative to the mass production of the other options, but if you scale it up to the same size, crickets become much cheaper than even chicken.

Ale tanie dla biznesu

​@@overmangaming4253they are basically asking for some people there to lose their job tho

That's the point. It's sustainable

plus they're clean! and away from having diseases, viruses and wounds..

Small animals = less expensive to maintain

@@doriosity5811 thats not what sustainable means, for a production to be called sustainable it must retain certain properties, like not disturb the environment around it etc. A cow needs lots of grass,space,water etc but if insects need heating and extra processing like dehydrating and roasting which all requires energy then how can we compare them? We cant say there arent viruses that can affect us, the studies are not there yet and if high density farming of this sort becomes commercial we may cause possible virus outbreaks or other stuff. Also one thing to point out is that there is a lot of misinformation, the crickets body and most of other insects, is made out of chitin, an anti-diatery matter (like fiber, we cant digest it) soo its not 100% protein. Also there is not the same aminoacid profile in insect protein and other meat proteins. A lot of research is going on in utilizing insects, just I suggest we stay away from misinformation like this video presents. Im not against farming insects, but the science is still early on this one.

@@Niphiz dehydrating cricket is like you make beef jerk. All requires energy to dehydrate. But if you sell fresh raw cricket to panfry or stew etc then dehydrating energy is not accounted for that

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broo i just ate the most delicious steak in my life. i figured you would wanna know that

I just had Futoor, You’re missing my mom’s Homemade Shawarma and Pizza’s

same im fasting

@@vincentsvilks8682 Stfu buddy why u torturing us rn 😂😂

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I'm wondering the same thing.

I respect your open mindedness to trying something new. I might...MIGHT. try a powder. But I can never eat them whole, see legs or antenna or anything like that 😭🤢

You’re demented

@@whitemailprivilege2830 you are a mad man

Can I snort it?

@@JuanPablo-pg3vx 🤣🤣🤣

Bro this needs to be a meme

To be fair, they don’t live that long

NGL, I kind of want to try this. This isn't the only insect or reptile either.

@Fred Howard That sounds great and how do i connect with her ?

@Fred Howard Okay i just found her website and left a message for her. thanks.

Except it was cockroaches not crickets

Whatever the hell the things in those tanks were, they weren't crickets.

Man, You're the reason why i'd clicked this video.

Do not trust those "protein bars"

IIRC, the original draft had Chris look into the big tank and see SHIT. Literal faeces from the front coaches being recycled into the protein bars, and that's why his reaction was so shocking. Later it was changed to insects.

A crispy crickets is actually pretty good, you should try it once at least.

I thought that the cricket protein power could be cool. Maybe it just seems “trendy” lol.

When they're freeze dried they really just taste like seeds. Would probably be good on a salad

In the Philippines we eat crickets and its so good 👌

They just gonna slip it in and not tell you..frito lay is talking to cricket folks..to me that's gross

Soylent green. Next.

No

@@ik1111 What are you gonna do, raid the lab?

Anything but smoothies

If you have bugs in your smoothies, you hadn't washed your green leafies enough😅

The crickets would eat your gecko

@End Censorship! animals also eat meat, so that makes no sense

@@Tendeza_ bro no they don't name one animal that eats meat. I mean wolves eat ants bro that why their snout is so long

@Perry Griffith I'm reading your comment, and I'm wondering if you are okay.

@End Censorship! insects are meat

That's what they want. Everyone is using buzz words like more sustainable. Someone in here apparently got a BA in how oh so sustainable eating bugs is. I can guarantee they won't be more sustainable though. It will end up costing more, produce far more emissions and producing far less yield, just like "sustainable energy" turned out to be. The left were so mad when Roger Moore, who truly believed in the cause enough to blow the whistle on the alternative energy industry and how inefficient and extra polluting it really was.

"this is merely an alternative, no one is forcing you to eat it" Well with the increase of bug based food products and more and more regulations on farmers (including things like cow burp and fart taxes) it will soon no longer be a choice "This is more sustainable, less polluting, and less carbon footprint compared to beef and other meat-based products" Anything that's industrialized is going to leave carbon footprints. But the main contributor to pollution is not our food, it's the industrial sector and the factories owned by the elites. Now try telling them to contribute more to combating pollution and all you get is an iphone with no charger instead of investing on recycling or a more sustainable but more costly production methods. This kind of measures of switching food source is like taking 10 buckets of water from the sea in an attempt to drain it. Unfortunately these indoctrinated groups do not realize they are merely pawns in the elites game of shifting the difficulties into the majority while they enjoy all the privileges. Read more about the Fed's quantitative easing to cut down salaries of the middle class in an attempt to preserve their own wealth. This is all part of the agenda, and these folks are supporting it wholeheartedly, free of charge.

I imagine it’s still cheaper to feed fish grain than crickets, especially considering the crickets eat grain. It would be like converting the energy of grain to cricket, and then cricket to fish, losing energy that the crickets burned to live/move around, when you could have just gave 100% of the energy to the fish

No one but freaks?...

Um it still weird eating bugs in elementary dude

yup, that sums out almost all the scientists, thats why they are now forcing this shit on us the kind way... :)

Like cooked and prepared or raw?

@@hotpepper2491 wow u just insulted so many countries

except the protein contains chitin in the exoskeleton cellular walls. Humans don't have chitin proteins in their genetic makeup. if you want to eat bugs and bug poop, more power to you... don't breathe on me.

@@yapandasoftware except that humans actually do produce chitinase to digest chitin.

@@abcddef2112 Man the human stomach can digest just about anything... but the old adage, "You are what you eat" comes to mind. I'm not so sure that eating bugs wouldn't increase muscle strength and skeletal strength. I'd be interested in seeing the PBTK research conducted over a decade to insectivores.

@@yapandasoftware haha well asians have been eating those for a while and still are, there doesn’t seem to be any adverse reactions. Ancient Roman and Greeks did eat insects too, just the tradition died out in Europe. I honestly think its just protein, your body digest and absorb what it needs. Though yes theres no long term study on insectivore as far as I know.

@@abcddef2112 it'd be cool when we grow exoskeleton one day

Where

Me too..

Uganda

But 1kg would keep you way longer than 3 kfc I imagine?

Grasshoppers and white ants We used to eat raw white ants when I was younger....they were really good. I'd definitely try these.

Most of the comments are off people wanting to eat them. Seems a bit odd

what? people arent forcing u to eat em what u mean

omg you sound so interesting

Yes we live in a age where racism gets called out, seems better than the 70's

The EU just recently approved these products as food that can be sold. It takes time I guess.

Think of it like plant milk. Consumer conscience over sustainability, health, and ethics is growing. 10 years ago there was a small corner that contained one or two almond milks, now there’s entire shelves with oat, rice, soy, all sorts. Combine that with the “superfood” trend with fruits like dragonfruit and quinoa and you have pure potential waiting to be untapped

@@isa5104 if you make cheaper than regular foods it'll sell.

This comment was on point! This technology is not new...

i've seen frozen insect burger patties here in germany

Yeah, just hear her voice makes me wanna marry her

@@fahmianugrah down bad bro?

She sounds like Hairitage93 on youtube

Here your 100th like sir

The trance-nator using mind control: "eat bugs, you peasants."...while the Controllers eat Wagyu beef.

You have the right spirit

Well the better and safest substitute for crickets are actually locusts. I'd eat em but not the cricket Now I'm not Jewish but the dietary laws seem to be healthy and personally if we talk about dietary laws of the Bible we were actually never supposed to eat meat, it was an exception for rare emergencies I think. But I'm hardly Christian so what do I know

@@blueridgeocean So using a book that you don't otherwise believe as an excuse to be closed minded when it doesn't even say what you thought it said? Leviticus (both in the Bible and the Torah) specifically says crickets are acceptable (though Jewish tradition says they must have 4 wings and be of a species traditionally eaten: that is not in the Torah, but in more recent teachings). Here's the text to which you thought you were referring: 20 “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be regarded as unclean by you. 21 There are, however, some flying insects that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. 22 Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. 23 But all other flying insects that have four legs you are to regard as unclean.

First meal I had with my wife's family her father's driver was seated next to me, thought it was hilarious to keep giving me cicadas. Once I learned to eat those, crickets were awesome: cicadas never really cook up crunchy, I describe it as being more like beef in a popcorn shell. Crickets on the other hand cook up light and crunchy and make a delightful snack! As for locusts, her grandpa always laughs at me when I pull the wings off before eating them, but there's no nutritional value and they just end up caught in your throat or your teeth, so I end up with a plate full of wings when I'm done 😁.

@@wilfdarr I was going off the teachings of a rabbi should he be tossed to the furnace for these "false teachings?" As well as the ones who debate whether or not the turkey is clean to eat? Some say it is but since the turkey is not listed in the lengthy text of clean animals but pass other criteria would it be naive of me to say it's unclean or clean?

no

It turns out it was actually a bug.

I beg to differ, cockroaches look disgusting not crickets. Crickets, like cattle, are herbivores whereas cockroaches and flies, like rats eat trash and shit.

@@masacatior crickets are omnivore, not herbivore

@@fossufiraito9407 Technically you are right, but I think you got the point. If we extend the comparison to cattle alone (and poultry), pigs and chickens are omnivores too lol

@@masacatior dude they’re insects , awk disgusting people

@@infinityxtanishq8712 what's wrong with rating insects? They're cheaper, economy friendly, and a good source of protein

Or Frog smoothie

Chicken heart and liver is normal in SEA

@@mikazukigaw-id5688 cricket also kind of normal at SEA

Don't do it dirty, chicken liver & heart is good

Okay okay, it sounds disgusting; but chicken hearts are actually really good.

Only us Americans would take pride in our lawn instead of gardens. It's odd to think that in the US we use more water on our lawn than any other crop. 🤦🏾‍♂️ Oh yea food waste. Rich teens don't give a crap about food waste or any carbon footprint. Having had worked in a restaurant spoiled kids who would dine out with family on the regular never cared to box or finish their food, in particular girls.

@@Tsukiko.97 In general I can understand your sentiment. I despise yards that are purely for looks. Food waste here is absurd.

@@Tsukiko.97 completely agree theirs a saying "soft times breed soft men"

It IS possible in cold climate ... Big catastrophe for All végétale in hot climate country

@XC There are some other solutions that fit in what you said. Aquaponics, Syntropic farming...

Literally insects. I couldn't care less how they die.

@@hydroaegis6658 Just curious.

They sort them by size via a sorter and drown them.

I imagine drowning or gasing them would work.

@@dennispremoli7950 It would be a bit of an extra step to gas them and then wash them. I am betting they just drown them.

Not really. People have been eating crickets for 3,000 YEARS That is everyone on social media relate things that have been around for thousands of years with something that just came out in a video game or a movie. Ridiculous.

Happy Oaxaca noises

Lmao

It's awkward when I'm in the woods and the crickets go silent. So yeah, it makes the hairs standup.

Lol! Nice one!

@@sharpwavethedecepticon6837 thank you!

@@andyoli75 lol

I've tried one and I find it to be a perfectly crispy movie snack like a popcorn would be. You can put different powdered flavors on them and if you're a bit squeamish then eating them on a dark cinema would work wonders on getting that initial disgust out of the way.

@@ofngol they tasted like overfried shrimp

@@ofngol or.....I'll just eat popcorn.

One is an insect the other isn't. Most people do not like eating insects

@@piggynatorcool668 they're both arthropods

@@lilsmolcrow you know what I mean

Insects are the worlds largest reservoir for parasites with about 30% of them pathogenic to humans. Insects are Slave food. You can bet the elites won't be eating them but they want you to do just that while they are flying all over world in their $$$$$$$ Jets and dinning on Coq au Vin. I hope you like your bondage.

Land insects are too far away from shrimps genetically even though they are related. By applying the same logic you could say that eating any mammal is equivalent to cannibalism.

Same

Yep if they taste like wagyu beef then i'll try it

They can by feeding them to a cow

They can't and they won't. Only prime beef tastes like prime beef.

the fact that there insects doesn’t bother me

Insects don't bother me at all: dog, cat, donkey, goat (they're so cute, I love goats), that bothers me, but insects, not at all.

@@fluffycorn_njst They are. Powdered crickets are everywhere.

Then eat it every day

What food do you eat?

As an Asian. Have you ever been to some night markets? They usually have tons of scorpions, centipedes or insects fried and grilled for sale at street vendors.

@@chiasmata8625 I'd imagine in poorer rural settings entomophagy would be more commonplace.

@@cryptocorynes1253 funny that you mention that, in rural South Vietnam, we did not eat bugs.

Mean while in an other country of northamerica, Mexico: I want some crickets with lemon and salt

As an Asian i can confirm that we have been eating insects for awhile :/

Bat and ball baby

Honestly same

In a world where people are used to eating insects, eating mammals and seafoods would probably look just as bizarre to them.

If you think about it, shrimp and lobster should be creepy AF. But we can't see it. They're just a sea cockroaches.

Right! Propaganda in my book!

Like said in the video, they've been eaten in certain parts of the world for 100s if not 1000s of years. And they can be made into really good tasting food, it's just that in west a lot of people have preconceptions about them and are disgusted to even try. Another point they didn't touch upon in this video are carbon dioxide emissions. I might get the number wrong, but I think I saw another video where they talked about how for the same amount of protein, crickets will emit 80 times less carbon dioxide than cows. That's a pretty big number.

Leroy Please see the movie "Snowpiercer." Seriously.

@3D Gremlin Education? Did I say anything about education? My comment was not any kind of insult, but I guess you want to make it one.

@3D Gremlin Global warming is not a myth bruh 💀

@@VanganPL I am scared of any bug I encounter, so I cannot withstand seeing them, let alone consume.

What i was starting to think

@@Osrsherbholiday Yeah but if you compare it to protein powder its not that expensive, not to mention that compared to wheat protein its content is more diverse and without allergens.

Cricket flour is protein powder, their nutritional makeup resembles very little of normal wheat flour. IDK why the video used wheat flour as a comparison but not soy or whey protein powder for example.

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I like the green one i wonder how it's made

Roaches although lesser in protein, are a greater source of calcium (roughly twice in % wt ). In a future where insects in diets are common place, don’t be surprised to see roaches mixed in to provide extra nutrients

@@KamalBIgP Toenail clippings have a better profit margin. Have you ever tried to kill a roach?

@@dirtdiggity1714 Some roaches are already used as food and they are much easier to breed than crickets. Blaberidae like the dubia roach for example are ovoviviprous, so you doesn't have to incubate the eggs.

yeah us Spaniards conquered y'all for a reason 😂😂😂

@@mastershadowreaper The reason being bring to america diseases and exploit the native people and lands because you haven't had the same money as other reigns in Europe?

@@montse3139 You were civilized way before the Spanish. Your whole civilization was seeded by "White gods" (your words, not mine) years prior, that's why your upper caste (back then) had lighter skin and blue eyes.

@@KingFluffs My words? Don't believe everything history chanel says.

@@montse3139 Not from the history channel, but from the native leaders.

The 1% eating crickets? No no, they eat and will continue eating what they want, its the rest of the population that will have to sustain on crickets.

Seoshinawi X to doubt. Crickets are just a new option in the westernized world that happens to be sustainable. Insects won't be replacing meat.

@@aspergillusoryzae3722 exactly. It’s an OPTION for people. All the dumbasses in the comments are acting like the government has made crickets the one source of food. Meat is still available, and just like veggie-meat, crickets are another option.

@@AOA9871 the Controllers would never harm the peasants. Animal agriculture is being phased out. Denmark Kills 15mil Mink, Setting Stage to End Animal Agriculture GREEN NEW MEAL: New McPlant & UK's Meat Tax - Corporations Push Fake Food UK Going Door to Door Killing Chickens - Bird Flu as Cover Story Animals are Dirty & Dangerous" - Hungary to kill 101k Hens - Pets Next? America's Top Owner of Farmland: Bill Gates -- In Control of Food UK: 2 Years Prison for Selling Food - No Vax, No Food (part 2) Biden Attacks Farms - Comprehensive War on Global Food Supply - Engineered Famine Taiwan Shuts Down Farms to Build More iPhones - Destruction of Food Supply Criminalization of Raising Animals: Dutch Sell "Pig Rights" FARMERS FIGHT BACK: French, Croatians Protest Seed Law & Takeover of Food They're Coming for your Animals -- UK confirms gassing chickens

@@AOA9871 Give it time. Give it time. Soon, they will demand an end to cattle and chicken and pork because of "global warming."

Amén hermano

It sounds gross, but the way you talk about them makes me want to taste it! One day.

@@ntatenarin there great they taste like those dehydrated shrimp for soup but smaller

@@FVIAX I love shrimp, so Chapulines are up my alley! Thanks for the info. :-)

There’s a Mexican restaurant not far from where I live (US Pacific Northwest) that sells fried crickets as an appetizer. It’s actually pretty good and we get it whenever we go there.

But do you eat bugs tho

More sustainable than what? Beef farming can be sustainable just not the way it's currently farmed. You can't really get more sustainable then sustainable right?

@@jaydnhughes6947 u can actually, its about efficiency in meat creation. Cattle in general is very inefficient in turning resources into meat. That why it cause so much pollution. Some of the most efficient protein are insects and mushrooms. While for meat, rabbit is way more resources efficient than beef.

@@vudangtung5638 sustainable and efficiency have different meanings you can't get more sustainable than sustainable but yes you could get more efficient.

@@vudangtung5638 and the reason cattle cause so much pollution is not because of there inefficiency its solely because of the farming practices used to produce it

No thanx. Unless all of you guys at Business Insider, Klaus, the CEOs of these farming businesses, their investors and the billionaires start eating the protein bars on the daily, I am not convinced.

Well said. I find it so ironic that billionaires and "philanthropist" feasting on stakes dipped in gold keep lecturing us on sustainable food sources.

Buddy if you read the actual paper that's from it just says that we need to invest in more sustainable ways to survive in the future. You got that quote from Alex Jones only reading the title and making up shit based on that.

@@adamd3820 It's like Al Gore flying around the world in a private jet to give lectures on why the plebeians shouldn't drive cars.

@@geoffreybrockmeier3765 and spread the awareness of the man bear pig

Its because you felt like you were being seduced when really you were being told about eating bugs

Hanz, get ze flamethrower!

That would actually be fun to do, but now I realize I might need to reflect on myself because I thought killing 15 million crickets with a flame thrower was fun.

finally someone smart in this comment section

Not to survive, just a more sustainable option to add to other animal products.

@Ethereal •Solana• I doubt you can get overloaded in calcium from eating crickets

And the richer people will keep all the meat while we eat insects like morons

@@four_twenty_sixty_nine A peasant will always be a peasant no matter what

I know, pretty gross.

@@masonlynch1793 how can you explain why I feel indifferent about it

@@anaveragemedicoreguy1644 you can have your own opinion about it. I was just saying mine.

@@masonlynch1793 Fried crickets is pretty good and also fried grasshopper is even better. Just speaking from experience

Ok, you enjoy that.

@Scumfuck McDoucheface That's because you're not in the USA where pesticides aren't sprayed everywhere.

@Scumfuck McDoucheface Thanks, dude.

I smoke marijuana in my RU-vid videos for a living 🔥😂

There was one in my bathroom last night.

@@sycoticpsycho May I have it, please? ;-)

Ok

I want to try one lmao. Bbq with chili flavor

IF YOU ADD SOME COOL FLAVOUR TO IT, I WILL EAT 'EM ALL!

pog.. i sad we dont have criket foods in my country.... they're picky when it comes to food...

That's interesting! I know there's hundreds of different kinds, but ours don't taste anything like fish. I wonder if yours are being fed fish scraps and that's where the flavor is maybe coming from.

Fried fish taste like fried fish too. I'll stick with that while you eat bugs.