Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs?

Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @10:31AM (#2868355)

I'm thinking vegetarian options are not necessarily more eco-friendly than this solution, which is 10-100 times more efficient than pigs. Factory-grown bugs take little room. The corn around here (I'm in Iowa) take up 96% of the land surface of the state.

Organic vegetables take up - more ecosystem. More passes thru the field to baby them, more loss to insects etc so less yield. And they are labor-intensive so load them with the cost of raising the humans that tend them. Humans are Really eco-unfriendly, especially when used as laborers.

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Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by cdcarter on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:13PM (#2868885)

How much of that corn grown is for human consumption, and how much becomes cattle feed?

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Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by thegoatrope on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:36PM (#2869010)

I vaguely remember it being some huge number, like 80%-90%? The rest of it goes to ethanol and high fructose corn syrup and other processing. I'm pretty sure the amount of corn that is grown for humans to eat as corn directly is (much?) less than 5%.

A quick Google search showed roughly similar stats.

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Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by nas on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @02:56PM (#2869663)

Ethanol is now using about 40% of the US corn crop.

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Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:40PM (#2869031)

Funny thing, Pepsi is Iowa's largest customer.

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Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by amalag on Thursday August 11, 2011 @10:44AM (#2873074)

Yeah humans as laborers in fields, how inhumane, we need to get them free so they can work in factories.

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