IT BEGINS: It’s Not Legal To Put Bugs In Your Food And There’s No Way To….

If you’ve never eaten bugs, you probably will in the near future, especially if you eat food from Europe.

Beginning on January 24, partially defatted and powdered house crickets will officially be able to find their way to EU citizens’ tables. Foreigners will now be required to eat grasshopper cousins that live on the ground. By adding a pinch of arthropod, the European Union gives eaters an explosion of insects, putting the “pow” in powder.

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 became effective on Tuesday after a three-year review. It enables food manufacturers to add cricket powder to items made from flour. The additive can be used in a wide variety of products, including but not limited to cereal bars, biscuits, pizza, pasta-based products, and whey powder, in the ruling, which referenced the scientific opinion of the European Food Safety Authority.

“In its scientific opinion, the [European Food Safety Authority] concluded that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder is safe under the proposed conditions of use and use levels. … [T]hat scientific opinion gives sufficient grounds to establish that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder when used in [an assortment of food] fulfills the conditions for its placing on the market…”

The following items are approved to include cricket powder:

• Multigrain Bread and Rolls
• Crackers and Breadsticks
• Cereal Bars
• Dry Pre-Mixes for Baked Products
• Biscuits
• Dry Stuffed and Non-Stuffed Pasta-Based Products
• Sauces
• Processed Potato Products
• Legume- and Vegetable- Based Dishes
• Pizza
• Pasta-Based Products
• Whey Powder
• Meat Analogues
• Soups and Soup Concentrates or Powders
• Maize Flour-Based Snacks
• Beer-Like Beverages
• Chocolate Confectionary
• Nuts and Oilseeds
• Snacks Other Than Chips
• Meat Preparations

Cricket One, a business that advertises “classic protein for a modern world,” provided the initial application to begin bugging people’s meals.

According to CricketOne.Asia:

“Cricket protein is nutritionally more efficient, high performing and complete. It is a reliable and sustainable source of alternative protein that does not harm the planet.

Cricket One is responsible for the farming practice of crickets while also innovating the highest quality and most sustainable ingredients for food, beverage, cosmetics, and pet food.”

Forget traditional bug nutrition and rub your legs together for modern cricket food because, as per Cricket One, “Traditional cricket farmers and retailers are ineffective due to unsustainable practices, barriers to scalability, and high costs of production.”

The possibility of removing antennae from your teeth has been looming for a while. The New York Post published a progressive profile six years ago:

“At Tomorrow’s Harvest farm, you won’t find acres of land on which animals graze, or rows of corn, or bales of hay. Just stacks of boxes in a basement and the summery song of thousands of chirping crickets.

It’s one of a growing number of operations raising crickets for human consumption that these farmers say is more ecologically sound than meat but acknowledge is sure to bug some people out.”

“They’re healthy. They’re sustainable. So why don’t humans eat more bugs? ” Time posed, in February of 2021.

Returning to The Post from that year: Elitist Bill Gates believes the wealthiest countries should switch to eating “100% synthetic beef” in order to help combat climate change.

Bill believes in you and has apparently bought thousands of acres of farmland, saying, “You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.”

So in the future, don’t be shocked if mealworms are in your meal. And shortly, if you receive any grub, it might contain grub worms. Because on top of crickets, the European Commission also authorized the consumption of “Alphitobius diaperinus”, better known as the smaller mealworm, larvae earlier this month. Although it is a common practice in certain Asian nations, eating insects is still a relatively new concept in Europe.

Europe is seeing change, and we are undoubtedly not far behind.

Bugs are a big impending business, and profit is delicious. Serve up Insecta, and save the world.

Sources: RedState, WashingtonTimes, NYPost, Time, CricketOne.Asia