I was going to ask this exact question as all the large manufacturers are fully onboard from Insectum, Bug Pro, So-Fly, and Bug Bites to name a few.RD. Your opinion of soldier fly based foods?
How Sustainable is Antarctic Krill as a Raw Ingredient?
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See previous post. IMHO nothing beats the overall nutrient content, and growth potential, of a high quality marine protein, such as fish meal. The only reason manufacturers consider alternate sources of protein and fatty acids, is due to cost savings. That, and consumer demand, which is often based on nothing more than the latest fad. IME, the average consumer ain’t that smart. Lots of them choose their fish food by the fish picture displayed on the label. Nothing wrong with BSFL meal, but it wouldn’t be my first choice for a source of amino acids, or fatty acids, for growing out a fish.
Hello; Let us go back a few decades. The powers that be threw a bone to folks with equipment (stills) to turn corn into ethanol. They legislated a mix of 10% ethanol alcohol be mixed into pump gasoline. The main irony among several ironies was such was minimally efficient. It took almost as much gasoline/diesel to grow, harvest and refine the corn into ethanol as was saved by putting it into a fuel mix. Even today with the gas crisis averted the program continues.
Ethanol causes problems in older vehicles. Even in newer vehicles if you let it sit too long it begins to separate from the gas. Of course companies have made fuel stabilizers to help with that.
My point is millions of tons of corn has been used as fuel for vehicles rather than food for people. An immediate consequence was a shortage of reasonably priced grain. Prices went up and hit the poorest among us hard. The plight of those was known but generally set aside. As already mentioned, the program was little help with the fuel supply. My WAG is the corn growers & distillers did not suffer. Anyway, we have a precedent for when good fish protein becomes expensive.
I already eat plenty of peanut butter. I like it. Back when a pre-teen I was in the Boy Scouts of America. There was a club of sorts called The Order of The Arrow. I went thru the "ordeal" to join. Three days of not talking, doing heavy work and plain foods. At night we were led individually in the dark to a place we had to sleep alone. ( One night I was set to sleep near a pile of s***. I figure a further thing to make me quit.) Every word spoken I was required to notch a stick I had to carry. An honor system thing. I think fifteen notches was the limit. I wound up with four. One for mashing the finger of a fellow candidate. I said sorry. I made the cut and still have the pocket patch.
Had a big ceremony with a bonfire and we dressed up like Indians. (now it would be called cultural appropriation) headdress and all for the older members. To the point, three days of peanut butter without jelly on plain bread and only water to drink. Seemed mean at the time but I now eat Peanut Butter from the jar with a spoon with only water to drink and like it.
I rehash a point for a failed pet thread. The well enough off will continue to feed their dogs & cats meat. That I do not doubt. The food diverted from the worlds hungry people be dammed. Same for the environmental impact. So, we agree more or less.
No being cruel is all the people living in small apartments with large dogs. And of course these are all "emotional support" animals.
Hello; I live near an ever growing college. Was a sleepy small college back when I was a child. Now it has boomed. I went to college in the 60's. So am using such as my yard stick. I do not recall any fellow student having a dog with them at college. At home with mom & dad sure but not on campus.
Now it seems many, perhaps most, have a dog or few. Some such as my closest neighbor in a small rental house have up to three dogs. When her mom comes to visit, she brings adds two more dogs. So, four big golden retrievers and an old beagle. The rental has a small yard. The mom told me it is much larger than what they have in Pittsburg. So, not a small apartment. My yard is a few times bigger but, in my mind, not fit for more than one dog.
I wonder if the college allows dorm students to have dogs. I figure they might but do not know for sure. I see lots of students walking dogs on campus. If dogs are living in dorms, I can only flinchingly imagine the smell & noise. The smell of a dorm back in the 60's with only men was bad enough (men & women were segregated back then. Men & women in separate dorms). No comment on how a women's dorm may have smelled as I was not allowed in back then.
I did have a job at a walk in movie theater in the early 60's. Among my duties was cleaning up the toilets. The women's toilet was always much nastier than the men's. By far. No idea as to the why.
Anyway????
I knew that it was only a matter of time before someone mentioned dogs…….
Dogs?
Did someone say...dogs???
And, I note with quiet glee...it wasn't me.
But, as long as we're on the topic...does anyone where I can source some Antarctic Krillhound pups?
Did someone say...dogs???
And, I note with quiet glee...it wasn't me.
But, as long as we're on the topic...does anyone where I can source some Antarctic Krillhound pups?
It’s pretty offensive and narrow minded to make a blank statement such as that. I deployed 3 times with the 10th mountain to Afghanistan and I have an emotional support dog Riggs, my German Shepherd. Count yourself lucky that you don’t have the need for one.
