The Swedish government is showing their commitment to green principles and fighting climate change by spending tax payer money on developing ‘meat’ made out of crickets and mealworms.
Vinnova, the Swedish government agency that distributes money for
research and development, spending some 2.7 billion kronor (£230
million) a year has announced its latest tranche of funding for creating
a greener, more sustainable future — by weaning Europe off meat. It is
hoped people will want to eat a so-called “climate smart” diet instead, reports FriaTider. Green activists and the United Nations are behind such political initiatives
as ‘Meat Free Mondays’ — a gateway to full vegetarianism — which are
based on the premise that meat consumption is driving man-made climate
change. Another method to reduce that so-called burden on the earth is
replacing meat protein with that harvested from insects instead. To that end, Vinnova is awarding half a million kronor each to
fifteen different projects across the country, each of which tasked with
creating an “edible prototype” of a new food. Among the mouth-watering projects being funded are an attempt to
produce a “good and healthy product from mealworms which are fed on
vegetable food scraps to become a climate friendly source of protein”,
“food prototypes” made from “refined mealworms”, and mincemeat made out
of “climate smart insects” such as crickets...more
I speculated on being an insect rancher here.
And so it continues. Please enjoy.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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