Why is the climate changing. (Page 196)

ghostgeek: It’s even in the name here! Mealworms are the larvae of the beetle and tend to taste like what they have been raised on. In the United States, Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies are a favorite. But, you can boil, fry, roast or sauté them for your meal – in other words, you can prepare and eat them exactly in the fashion you’d most like to. They’re also super high on protein so you know it’ll do a ton of good for you.

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Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies? Fancy Americans liking them.

ghostgeek: f you’re hoping to enjoy some fried tarantula, head over to Cambodia where it’s popular street food and the crunchy legs will remind you of eating a crab, but it will taste nuttier. I’d recommend having a “professional” make it over trying to prepare it at home, but if you do choose to have some homemade tarantula, remember not to eat the fangs and to remove as much of the hair as possible before consuming. And curled legs will tell you how well cooked your spider dinner is!

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Something else that's nice and crunchy.

ghostgeek: Especially normal to consume in Thailand and Laos, but also Japan and Mexico, wasps are high in protein and super low in fat. Plus they are versatile; roast, fry, saute or eat them like Emperor Hirohito by simply boiling and serving with rice.

Because catching wasps can get dangerous – they will try to attack you if you try to catch them and catching them is no easy feat even without that factor – I recommend traveling to a country where they’re a common delicacy instead.

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As a bonus with these, you should get plenty of exercise.

ghostgeek: All-in-all, who needs to eat cows when you can catch your own dinner for free.

ghostgeek: Oops:

It was early 2022 and the world’s most profitable burger chain was finally rolling out a patty made of vegetables in hundreds of its stores. The pea, rice, and potato mixture mimicked the flavor and texture of its beefy brethren. Chains like Burger King and White Castle had done it before, but McDonald’s was the biggest. The McPlant was yet another mass-produced fake-meat burger lionized as a savior to the impending climate disaster—and, of course, an offering that could potentially lure more customers to stores. But the plant patty’s success depended on enough people actually wanting to eat it. Last week, a mere six months after launch, McDonald’s quietly ended its brief and underwhelming experiment.

[ https://www.bonappetit.com/story/mcdonalds-ends-mcplant-test-us-stores?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB ]

Looks like people don't want to stop eating cows.

ghostgeek: So why was the McPlant such a McFlop? When products like Impossible and Beyond’s burgers hit shelves a few years ago, fast food was lauded as their ideal sales vehicle. Big chains could theoretically tap their low prices, ubiquity, and lab-manufactured addictiveness to sell fake meat convincing enough to overpower the American beef obsession. In reality, fast food restaurants were never going to be responsible for changing this country’s consumption habits based on moral, health, or prevent-the-environmental-apocalypse arguments.

[ https://www.bonappetit.com/story/mcdonalds-ends-mcplant-test-us-stores?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB ]

kittybobo34: I have had some of those plant burgers, they do not taste like meat or have the texture of meat.. There are other meat sources though that are much more economical, like alligator. The tail is mostly meat and its half the animal, plus it has almost no flavor of its own so you can make it taste like anything you want, sort of like imitation crab

ghostgeek: And when the animal welfare people start agitating about farming alligators, as they surely will, it will be off the menu.

kittybobo34: They already farm the alligators, There is a restaurant in Florida called Ali-gators that serves all sorts of differently flavored alligator meat.

ghostgeek: I suppose it's horses for courses, but to me it seems kinda strange to farm something that has no taste so you can artificially flavour it.

kittybobo34: ghost,, sort of like the fish that can taste like anything, that they use for imitation crab. The advantage of gators is that they grow so fast, the whole body is useful, and the percentage of meat is much greater than in cows.

ghostgeek: Not being into eating either crabs or cows, I guess I'll just accept what you say.

kittybobo34: Had escargot the other day,, it was pretty good , I had no idea what they would taste like,

ghostgeek: Rather you than me, I must say. I had a really big spider in the bath today but I chose not to fry it, just scooped it up and put it outside.

kittybobo34: Aboriginie's eat those large desert spiders, put then on a stick and into the fire. I hear it tastes like lobster, same family I think.

ghostgeek: I guess you have to be brought up to nibbling such delicacies before you really take to them. Anyway, if they're your thing, there's a place for you:

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kittybobo34: Funny how our tastes are governed by our culture. Biologically we are bug eaters, our teeth, size of our mouths, our inability to fight with tooth or claw, all say that.

ghostgeek: Yes we're adaptable critters, which is why I'm sanguine about the changing climate.

ghostgeek: If people can seriously consider colonising Mars there shouldn't be any insurmountable problem with making changes here on earth.

wJust_woW: Scarry Black clouds over Europe


signs of torment clear
Punishment came to the publishers of immorality , homo and the descendants of the people of Lot

"And [mention] the Day when the heaven will split open with [emerging] clouds, and the angels will be sent down in successive descent25. True sovereignty, that Day, is for God almighty. And it will be upon the disbelievers a difficult Day26."

people. will see a lot of disappointment at disbeliever's faces these days🤐

GeraldtheGnome: That is incorrect in every way possible. Never use the word and at the start of a sentence, use capitals and a full stop as well. Day26 ? It’s all a grammatically incorrect mess. Every god is imaginary. as was Lot who of corse never existed, publishers of immortality include some people who are religious and some who aren’t. You are also homophobic.

I’m not a fan of all Queer issues but I still don’t think that all of them are evil because of their sexuality. Climates have changed in different ways in some places but it isn’t due to a supernatural being.

ghostgeek: Is somebody predicting a re-run of the Great Flood? I think the grass would be appreciative if it did start raining.

kittybobo34: Ghost,, you comment above about our adaptablilty will save us, is true to some extent, but when push comes to shove, we will war on each other for the last resources, and that could end us.

ghostgeek: What "last resources" are we talking about? The surface of earth is mostly water, there seems to be more fossil fuel than anybody, up until recently at least, wanted to burn and your staples, such as iron and copper, don't seem to have run out. But if there are problems with resources in the future, we have the moon to mine.

ghostgeek: Geological surveys have previously shown than the Moon contains three crucial resources: water, helium-3, and rare earth metals. Water is vital for supporting life and agriculture in space and can be converted into rocket fuel to propel mankind further toward the stars, and helium-3 is a rare helium isotope that could be used for innovations in the energy sector – namely nuclear fusion. Rare earth metals are vital in emerging technologies, as well as the technologies we make use of every day, from smartphones and computers to medical equipment.

[ https://www.mining-technology.com/analysis/moon-mining-what-would-it-take/ ]