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Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« on: July 29, 2013, 03:00:55 PM »
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Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food

Kimberley Mok
Design / Sustainable Product Design
July 26, 2013

© Katarina Unger
As global meat consumption and demand continue to rise, it's clear that there will be increasingly severe environmental impacts associated with the growing demand, from using arable land for growing animal feed to the release of potent greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide. While some may say alternative diets like vegetarianism maybe the answer, in her proposed kitchen gadget University of Vienna grad designer Katarina Unger turns to an unlikely -- and possibly unnerving -- untapped source of protein: insects.

Unger's Farm 432 is a small-scale fly incubator that fits on your kitchen counter, which "enables people to turn against the dysfunctional system of current meat production by growing their own protein source." In particular, Unger focused on black soldier fly larvae as her research showed that they are the most efficient insect converters of protein at 42 percent, plus a lot of calcium and amino acids.

Uhhh, youse guys and gals try it firstist and get back to me…
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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2013, 03:16:22 PM »
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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2013, 03:30:01 PM »
Uhhh, youse guys and gals try it firstist and get back to me…

Interesting . but why not ?    meat is meat,  does it matter the size it comes in ?

I am sure were I starving I could fry up a bunch of earth worms or spiders and snakes.  Who cares what the crap tastes like, if it will keep you alive then go for it.


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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2013, 03:34:06 PM »
Interesting . but why not ?    meat is meat,  does it matter the size it comes in ?

I am sure were I starving I could fry up a bunch of earth worms or spiders and snakes.  Who cares what the crap tastes like, if it will keep you alive then go for it.

Just the idea of eating fly larva makes me want to barf.  My mom has eaten snake.  She said they taste like chicken......
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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2013, 04:35:34 PM »
Interesting . but why not ?    meat is meat,  does it matter the size it comes in ?

I am sure were I starving I could fry up a bunch of earth worms or spiders and snakes.  Who cares what the crap tastes like, if it will keep you alive then go for it.




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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2013, 04:38:11 PM »
Insects with exoskeletons are high in chiton.
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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2013, 10:58:08 AM »
No, just . . . NO!!!!  :panic:
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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2013, 11:32:46 AM »
No, just . . . NO!!!!  :panic:

But they come with ready-made toothpicks!  :wink:
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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2013, 08:26:52 PM »
There are sometimes when a man just has to say, "NO."

apart from the eating of bugs, what happens when the device is dropped or knocked off the counter? Hundreds of flies are now in your house. Doesn't that sound fun? All it takes are children or pets. It is inevitable.

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Re: Unconventional kitchen appliance breeds insects for food
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2013, 01:35:55 PM »
No, just . . . NO!!!!  :panic:

I'm on the HELL NO! side...   :runaway:
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