Could beetles, dragonfly larvae and water bug caviar be the meat of the future?
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he briefly explains his credentials by saying " We are entomologists at Wageningen University, and we started promoting insects as food in the Netherlands in the 1990s."
at the end of the article it states his credential by stating " Mr. Dicke and Mr. Van Huis are professors of entomology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands." though this statement is not inside the context of the article instead as part of the publishers article layout.
throughout the article he briefly mentions his credentials in regards to his status or academic for example, doctorates
this article has little to no ethos
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he uses pictures
he compares parts of a crickets to animal parts by illustrating a cricket and the slices of meat
Not long ago, foods like kiwis and sushi weren't widely known or available. It is quite likely that in 2020 we will look back in surprise at the era when our menus didn't include locusts, beetle larvae, dragonfly larvae, crickets and other insect delights.
how one day these insects will be eaten in tocos
"Raising insects is more humane as well. Housing cattle, swine or chicken in high densities causes stress to the animals, but insects like mealworms and locusts naturally like to live in dense quarters. The insects can be crowded into vertical stacked trays or cages. Nor do bug farms have to be restricted to rural areas; they could sprout up anywhere, from a suburban strip mall to an apartment building. Enterprising gourmets could even keep a few trays of mealworms in the garage to ensure a fresh supply."the author used this to strike to emotions of the reader.
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How this is much less desturctioin of food production
Insects have a reputation for being dirty and carrying diseases—yet less than 0.5% of all known insect species are harmful to people, farm animals or crop plants
he briefly explains why insect diseases can't infect humans
"The human population is expected to grow from six billion in 2000 to nine billion in 2050. Meat production is expected to double in the same period, as demand grows from rising wealth. Pastures and fodder already use up 70% of all agricultural land, so increasing livestock production would require expanding agricultural acreage at the expense of rain forests and other natural lands."
Insects produce less waste, too. The proportion of livestock that is not edible after processing is 30% for pork, 35% for chicken, 45% for beef and 65% for lamb. By contrast, only 20% of a cricket is inedible.
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he did not show studies on how crickets actually affect human health in the long run
he does not show studies or servey of the sorts
he really gets the readers attention when he states the usage of insect fragments and parts in our diet
For chocolate, the FDA limit is 60 insect fragments per 100 grams. Peanut butter can have up to 30 insect parts per 100 grams, and fruit juice can have five fruit-fly eggs and one or two larvae per 250 milliliters (just over a cup).
The average person consumes about a pound of insects per year, mostly mixed into other foods.
For instance, swine and humans are similar enough that they can share many diseases. Such co-infection can yield new disease strains that are lethal to humans, as happened during a swine fever outbreak in the Netherlands in the late 1990s. Because insects are so different from us, such risks are accordingly lower.
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rats are not like humans but carry diseases that harm humans.