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Let them eat bugs: UK urges hunger-stricken African nations to farm insects · The Slippery Slope

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  Oh, I'm Jeff Allen and thank you for listening to the slippery
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  slope. So over the last 12 months,
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  maybe even longer. There's been a lot of talk about
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  food shortage the possibility of food shortages, also about food
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  distribution, about Farms being closed, down factories, being
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  closed down and people questioning how we're going to
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  be feeding the World the global population in general also, if
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  you know anything about the Bible and you've you listen to
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  Bible prophecy teachers you will know that there's quite often
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  references to what Paul wrote In First.
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  Timothy specifically, First Timothy 4, where Paul says that
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  there will come a time in the in the future in latter times where
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  people will be forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain
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  from meats or other translations.
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  Say Abstain from Foods in Paul saying, these are foods that
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  that God made that we're supposed to be able to eat the
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  we are as Christians or anyone can eat.
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  Now, I'm saying all this because there's being a big push lately
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  in. Probably the last, I've noticed
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  that the last 12 months. Anyway, has been a big push
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  about eating insects and integrating insects, into part
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  of our diet, and especially after we've seen Of the farms,
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  around the world being shut down for various reasons.
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  And all the talk about climate change in the supposed alleged
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  climate emergency, that the world is facing and governments
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  communities are talking about eating insects and cutting back
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  on farming animals. And the supposed destruction
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  that the gases they do and the devastation or destruction that
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  supposedly farming brings upon our wall world.
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  All this to talk about this article coming through, from the
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  guardian on the weekend. The headline says, let them eat
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  bugs UK, urges hunger, stricken African nations to farm insects.
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  So the UK Aid spending is encouraging, hunger.
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  Stricken Africans to eat insects with projects, aiming to develop
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  the practice in the Democratic, Republic of the Congo, and
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  Zimbabwe edible. Insects have long been touted as
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  a resource efficient source of Requiring less land and water
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  than conventional livestock. However, taste and cultural
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  resistance have proved to be stumbling blocks in.
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  Extending the practice in many parts of the world.
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  It tastes and cultural. I've got to say, look, I I love,
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  I love fish. I'm not a massive steak either,
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  but I do love a good T-bone steak every now and then, and I
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  absolutely love Salmons, salmon fish.
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  Anyway, I had the thought of eating insects doesn't really
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  Ali doesn't really get the juices flowing doesn't really
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  make my mouth water. Anyway, continues on says in a
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  move to realize the substantial on paper benefits of insect
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  eating, a 50,000-pound UK and Project 8 project in the DRC is
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  putting African caterpillars, migratory, locusts, and black
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  soldier flies on the menu. Oh wow!
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  The black soldier flies. Just put me right off.
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  So, the initiative is being XP headed in the North and South
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  kivu provinces of the DRC where cattle farming is one of the few
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  ways to make a living for Rural inhabitants.
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  But as the population in these regions grow space for animal
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  husbandry is dwindling and beef. Farming is putting a strain on
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  Water Supplies. So 23 species of insects are
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  already consumed in the South kivu Region region.
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  Although the Congolese does not usually Farm them, instead
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  opportunistically Gathering them depending on the season, edible
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  insects commonly eaten in the region include the African Palm
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  Weevil, the litter Beetle termites and crickets.
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  The Catholic Agency for overseas development, which is tapered a
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  charity in England and Wales hopes of the Congolese will
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  begin farming insects in an industrialized manner, K4 did
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  not respond to a guardian inquiry about how Intended to
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  use the money. Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe another
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  development project is underway to use mopane worms in porridge
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  served in schools. The slimy green caterpillars.
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  Yeah you heard right? Slimy.
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  Green caterpillars which turned into emperor?
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  Moths are already commonly picked for consumption from
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  vegetation during the Rainy, senior judge seasons in rural
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  parts of Zimbabwe. With 300,000 pounds from the
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  aid, budget officials are planning to feed.
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  Poor children, aged 7 to 11 in the southern town of Wanda.
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  And in the capital, her ahh, a bug lace to gruel, which they
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  see has the benefits of being rich in crucial vitamins and
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  minerals including phosphorus potassium iron, copper zinc,
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  manganese, sodium vitamins, B1, and B2 and niacin the Project's
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  leader doctor. Berto Fiore, a professor of
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  food, chemistry and Technology at a bird.
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  A university in Dundee said zimbabweans rely heavily on
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  maze, which is low in protein, essential minerals, amino acids,
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  and fatty acids. Fiora is said he and his team.
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  Concocted a formula that combines locally farmed mopane
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  worms with cereals and fruits. That do not need to be imported
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  as significant. Benefit as the war in Ukraine.
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  And then in this strong US, dollar, make foreign grown
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  Foods, increasingly excess inaccessible, although unwilling
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  to disclose his recipe before the publication of the study's
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  data. If you are a did say he's
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  insect-based porridge contained a grains, including a sorghum
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  and millets he said he was sure. The dish was palatable with his
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  research team. Having conducted consumer, taste
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  testing Portland a country, long associated with porridge
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  whipping up. The bug based meal is only the
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  first stage of the project. A random a randomized control
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  trial will be conducted to see if children who eat the
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  breakfast, perform better at school and if their weight
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  becomes healthier dr. Sarah Beynon, the founder of the
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  bug Farm in pembrokeshire and an academic entomologist said Aid
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  projects. Promoting Voting edible insects
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  were a sure way to save lives and improve nutrition of the
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  poorest people on planet Earth. She said, we are also actively
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  encouraging people in the developed world to include
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  insects in their diet with a population that has an appetite
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  set to far exceed, the planetary limits and with current
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  agricultural, agriculture decimating, biodiversity and
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  changing the climate. There you go, we have the In the
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  climate change, we have no option but to change how we
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  produce and consume food and their views on the topic 2.
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  So there you go. Is this where the world is
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  heading towards eating insects? They are blaming the climate
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  blaming climate change. Making us think we have to
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  change the way we do things and look it might be a good thing to
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  change. The way we do things with our
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  farming practices. But do we really have to go down
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  a road where We were eating insects.
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  Furthermore will this go down the road?
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  Where as the Apostle Paul said, 2,000 years ago, there will come
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  a time where we will be forbidden.
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  People will be forbidden us to eat certain foods because of
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  I'll put it to you this way because of climate change and
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  the alleged climate change disaster.
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  The impending climate change disaster, are we looking at a
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  time when in the Near future governments will start to ban
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  people from farming, ban people from from growing Castle.
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  From growing sheep, banned people from farming practices or
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  farming, all together, and try and force people into eating
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  insects is that where we're going very strange times.
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  I for one do not want to eat some kind of manky porridge with
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  green bugs in it and I love porridge with lots of milk, full
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  cream, milk and a dash of cream anyway.
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  Is this where we going insect-eating is this really
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  what we want to do and who was really behind this bush.
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  It's a it's a strange strange Direction.
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  I think the world is going and I for one do not Want to be eating
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  insects as a part of my my dietary fiber plan.
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  Anyway, that's just my opinion. Tell me what you think.
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  Thank you for listening to the slippery slope.