{"id":5990,"date":"2012-04-13T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:01:16","slug":"npr-time-bug-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/npr-time-bug-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR: &#8220;Time for a &#8216;Bug Mac&#8217;?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has an interesting story about Dutch research on protein. Specifically, bug protein.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ph.D. student Dennis Oonincx is checking out his mealworms living in the cricket lab, and says his research into how the worms metabolize a waste product shows how superior insects are as a protein source \u2014 better than cattle or sheep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can produce more food for people with less input,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s good food and it&#8217;s better for the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wageningenur.nl\/nl\/Expertises-Dienstverlening\/Leerstoelgroepen\/Plantenwetenschappen\/Laboratorium-voor-Entomologie-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arnold van Huis<\/a>, head of Wageningen&#8217;s entomology department, is one of the world&#8217;s premier experts in entomophagy, or eating insects. He believes the rising price of meat will help change diets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If your Big Mac is going to cost about $100 and your Bug Mac is going to cost only $4, people will change to a Bug Mac,&#8221; van Huis says.<\/p>\n<p>Van Huis says the challenge is to make it delicious. That&#8217;s where Marian Peters comes in. For years, as secretary of the Dutch insect breeders association <a href=\"https:\/\/venik.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venik<\/a>, she&#8217;s been active in bringing edible insects to consumers&#8217; tables. And Peters says the first commercially available bug sandwich will be out soon \u2014 a wrap filled with insects and peas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the abstract, I think it sounds great &#8211; I imagine certain bugs (like mealworms) would be a great source of cheap, nutritious and (hopefully)\u00a0decent-tasting protein. Not sure about\u00a0a &#8220;Bug Mac,&#8221; though &#8211; personally, I think I&#8217;d opt for a Gardenburger or falafel first, lol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has an interesting story about Dutch research on protein. Specifically, bug protein. Ph.D. student Dennis Oonincx is checking out his mealworms living in the cricket lab, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,23,28],"tags":[593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9560,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/9560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}