Article: Why insects could be the ideal animal feed

"The world’s appetite for meat is growing, and the production of animal feed is an increasing strain on land and water. Insects could provide much of the protein animals need at a much lower environmental cost; many insect species can feed on manure, like Grant’s maggots, or other types of organic waste, such as leftover food, offal, and grains discarded by breweries.

“Regulatory agencies are beginning to weigh the benefits against potential safety risks, including the possibility that insects might accumulate environmental toxins or even transmit diseases to the farm animals that eat them. On 8 October, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy, released its first report on the risks of using insects as food and animal feed. It concluded that the risks depend on the insect species used—and that more studies like PROteINSECT are needed before livestock or fish are switched to this new diet. But in other countries the brave new world of industrial-scale insect farming is already on view.”

“Why insects could be the ideal animal feed”
http://news.sciencemag.org/europe/2015/10/feature-why-insects-could-be-ideal-animal-feed

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The question is how the meat tastes. I know that personally, I can taste a difference between a grass fed steak and a corn fed one.

Of course if we are talking about chicken, I think it doesn’t matter. Most of the farm raised chicken I have eaten have been fed by foraging for bugs. Still tasted like chicken.

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“Of course if we are talking about chicken, I think it doesn’t matter.
Most of the farm raised chicken I have eaten have been fed by foraging
for bugs. Still tasted like chicken.”

Dunno. I had some KFC when I spent a couple of weeks in Bangkok some years back and there was a definite something in the taste that told me it wasn’t imported. And the same overtone was present in other meat products I partook of while there.