Food of the future? “Westerners have ‘no choice’ but to shed their bug bias.”

Could the mass animal deaths be caused by eco-terrorists, in an attempt to force humans to stop eating animal meat?

DATELINE ZERO – That was the reaction of 20-year-old Dutch student Walinka van Tol, as she inspected the worm protruding from a half-eaten chocolate praline. With a smile and a shrug, she popped the rest of it in her mouth. Yummm.

Van Tol and about 200 other tasters were at a seminar that claims larvae and locusts will invade Western menus as the price of steak and chops skyrocket.

According to an article at Breitbart News, Dutch scientists are currently doing groundbreaking research into insects replacing animal meat as a healthier, more environmentally friendly source of protein.

“There will come a day when a Big Mac costs 120 euros ($163) and a Bug Mac 12 euros, when more people will eat insects than other meat,” head researcher Arnold van Huis told a disbelieving audience at Wageningen University in the central Netherlands.

The university’s head of the entomology department Marcel Dicke, who has been a rabid supporter of moving humans away from meat-eating, proclaims that changing Westerners’ mindset will take more than disguising a worm covered in chocolate.

Dicke said Westerners have “no choice” but to shed their bug bias.

Coincidently (???) this comes at a time when mass animal deaths are in the news. This includes recent news of 200 cows that were found dead at a farm in Wisconsin, and over 10,000 cows that dropped dead in Vietnam.

Like von Huis, Dicke fears an overpopulation that will place too-great a burden on meat production. Dicke points to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation predicting there will be nine billion people on the planet by 2050 and agricultural land already under pressure.

“We have to eat less meat or find an alternative,” said Dicke, who claims to sit down to a family meal of insects on a regular basis. “The question really should be: ‘Why do we NOT eat insects?”

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