Farming Part 6
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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When I was a student at Chester Elementary in North Manchester, one of my teachers read the book “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingals Wilder. One incident was when grasshoppers consumed the crops on the farm and marched over everything in their way; even the baby in the house. In the future, insects like grasshoppers will become a source of protein by farmers and the general public. They’re already eaten in many countries. Food labs will transform grasshopper protein into food. With the right seasonings and preparation, fried or baked grasshopper protein will become a healthy snack.
Crickets will also be raised for food. Both grasshoppers and crickets eat plants and produce more protein, ounce for ounce, than birds and animals raised on farms. Vertical farms might be best to raise insects for food since they aren’t affected by the weather and the floors can be so close that the walls will have to move to push the insects into troughs to transfer them to the processing areas. A 400-foot tower might have over 200 floors. As long as there is food and water, the insects can take care of themselves.
Worms, snails and slugs will also provide protein. If Japanese soldiers could live on grubs during World War II, farmers will also raise them as a source of protein. Some natural food companies may market grubs as the food of our ancient ancestors and wilderness survivors.
There will be genetically modified insects and other creepy crawlers that will either be eaten or produce protein that can be processed into food people will want to eat. It may take a generation or two for people to accept things that they exterminate today as food. But in the future, pests like ants and terminates will become snack foods. A steak might be produced from the protein of 100 insects.
Insects eat garbage, rotting plant matter and waste material. Tanks of garbage could have hundreds of pounds of insects that could be “harvested” every few weeks. Since they produce methane, that gas could be removed and used as fuel. It may take awhile before farmers consider former pests as livestock. But in the future, farmers will get used to it. Also, the public will have to accept what they now step on and squash as food.
Rick Badman
Warsaw[[In-content Ad]]
When I was a student at Chester Elementary in North Manchester, one of my teachers read the book “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingals Wilder. One incident was when grasshoppers consumed the crops on the farm and marched over everything in their way; even the baby in the house. In the future, insects like grasshoppers will become a source of protein by farmers and the general public. They’re already eaten in many countries. Food labs will transform grasshopper protein into food. With the right seasonings and preparation, fried or baked grasshopper protein will become a healthy snack.
Crickets will also be raised for food. Both grasshoppers and crickets eat plants and produce more protein, ounce for ounce, than birds and animals raised on farms. Vertical farms might be best to raise insects for food since they aren’t affected by the weather and the floors can be so close that the walls will have to move to push the insects into troughs to transfer them to the processing areas. A 400-foot tower might have over 200 floors. As long as there is food and water, the insects can take care of themselves.
Worms, snails and slugs will also provide protein. If Japanese soldiers could live on grubs during World War II, farmers will also raise them as a source of protein. Some natural food companies may market grubs as the food of our ancient ancestors and wilderness survivors.
There will be genetically modified insects and other creepy crawlers that will either be eaten or produce protein that can be processed into food people will want to eat. It may take a generation or two for people to accept things that they exterminate today as food. But in the future, pests like ants and terminates will become snack foods. A steak might be produced from the protein of 100 insects.
Insects eat garbage, rotting plant matter and waste material. Tanks of garbage could have hundreds of pounds of insects that could be “harvested” every few weeks. Since they produce methane, that gas could be removed and used as fuel. It may take awhile before farmers consider former pests as livestock. But in the future, farmers will get used to it. Also, the public will have to accept what they now step on and squash as food.
Rick Badman
Warsaw[[In-content Ad]]
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