{"id":357656,"date":"2022-11-29T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T17:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=357656"},"modified":"2022-12-05T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T02:36:17","slug":"eating-bugs-should-be-the-new-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/eating-bugs-should-be-the-new-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating bugs should be the new norm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">The only people who should not be against it are the French who consider snails as a delicacy&#8230; <\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">The newspaper has again promoted consuming edible insects, triggering an online backlash<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">One of the most prominent US newspapers has again called for Americans to rely on bugs as a major food source, arguing that the shift to edible insects from beef, pork, and chicken will be good for the environment. Eating insects instead of livestock-based meats will \u201clighten environmental footprints,\u201d the Washington Post said in an article published on Sunday. Farm-raised insects also yield protein more efficiently, the newspaper claimed. For instance, crickets are 12 times more efficient than cows in converting feed to edible weight.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p>Sunday\u2019s article marks the latest in a long line of efforts by the Post and other media outlets to sell Americans and consumers elsewhere in the West on eating insects. A quick Google search reveals that the Washington Post has been repeatedly hammering the topic since at least 2013, posting articles with such titles as \u2018Why bugs must be a bigger part of the human food chain\u2019 and \u2018Why you can, should and probably will eat bugs\u2019. A 2019 piece had a question as the title: \u2018Would you eat insects to help save the planet?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/567338-wapo-promotes-eating-bugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rael.maitreya\/posts\/pfbid037nDH1ryZmzWTnStVrYjQm5SumRQPE3fRtQmgb2cdAtu8tLZnHkNfN6VHkTCgjwmml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL&#8217;S COMMENT: The only people who should not be against it are the French who consider snails as a delicacy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":357705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raels-comments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}