Tell you what, Warmists: you first. Give up your own meat intake
Two Degrees: Does eating bugs help fight climate change?
Earlier this week, I wrote a column for CNN Opinion about the climate cost of beef production — arguing we have to cut back on steak and hamburgers to avoid dangerous warming.
In response, Torben Ørvad Jensen, a reader in Denmark, asked why we don’t substitute a fairly unconventional protein source — grasshoppers — for cattle.
Would that help reduce human contributions to global warming?
“How can we get the governments around the world to see, that one of the the answer to both famine and climate change, is breeding new kinds of livestock like grasshoppers?” he asked.
“Insects are not the answer to everything,” he added, “but its one of the great changes that could be fundamental to fighting climate change in the long run.”
>“Insects are not the answer to everything,†he added, “but its one of the great changes that could be fundamental to fighting climate change in the long run.â€
It will have to be in the long run because the climate is not changing enough in the short run to start eating insects. I think people will start fact checking the data if that is the case. Which would be a good thing. Long run and short run.
But the cost of re-fencing all that open range and pasture to Herd grasshoppers. I wonder what the production pounds per acre of grasshoppers is to pounds beef per acre? Entomologists could breed the grasshoppers for protein content and marbling. Then there is parasite and disease control. herding techniques and butchering techniques to develop. Wow just look at all the hi-tech job creation potential. new receipts, cooking techniques — the old backyard grill will never be the same. But first, tests need to be made to quantify the CO2 production of grasshoppers vs beef pound for pound.
I don’t know about you heathens, but I don’t eat cattle. I don’t kill animals. I go to the grocery store and buy that pre-packaged meat. They don’t kill animals at the grocery store. Thus, I don’t contribute to the evil big-cow.
BTW, how much does hopper-wrangling pay?