138: Are Crickets the New Chicken?
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Chocolate-covered ants and other novelty foods have been around for ages, but is anyone moving beyond the novelty foods and taking a deeper look at the real nutritional benefits of edible insects?
This week, Lucas Rockwood and Kevin Bachhuber discuss the topic of insects-as-food. Kevin has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin Steven's Point, one of the nation's top schools for wildlife conservation and natural resources.
A lifelong urban farmer, Kevin founded Big Cricket Farms in response to growing water shortages, the rising costs of protein production, and a simple desire to eat bugs with friends. In 2006 his travels to Thailand, Kevin was able to sample a variety of edible bugs including crickets, and found them to be delicious! Upon returning to the USA, he also discovered that there were essentially no commercial sources of crickets for people to eat, so he decided to create one. In 2014, the time was ripe, and Big Cricket Farms was born.
In this Show, You'll learn:
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Why bugs might just be the future of food
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The farming of bugs in real life (what it’s like)
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Whether insects-as-food is truly sustainable
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Living off bugs: is it actually possible?
Links & References from the Show
http://nutritionstudies.org/
www.BigCricketfarms.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yoga Students, if you want to deepen your practice, discover optimal health, and learn practical tools that will improve your life, |
| 0:07.0 | then you have come to the right place, my friend. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the Yoga Talk Show with Lucas Rockwood. |
| 0:16.0 | So hello and welcome everyone, this is Lucas Rockwood here. Welcome to the yoga talk show. |
| 0:18.0 | The name of our show today is Our Cricket's The New Chicken, |
| 0:22.0 | and I am happy to be joined today by Kevin |
| 0:25.8 | Bakuber. Kevin has a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin |
| 0:30.1 | Stephen's Point which is one of the nation's top schools for wildlife conservation and natural |
| 0:35.2 | resources. He's a lifelong urban farmer and he founded Big Cricket Farms |
| 0:40.6 | which was in response to the growing water shortages, the rising costs of protein |
| 0:44.9 | production, and a simple desire to eat bugs with friends. |
| 0:48.4 | I think we all have this desire. |
| 0:50.8 | In 2006, in his travels to Thailand Kevin was able to eat a bunch of different bugs including |
| 0:56.5 | crickets and found them to be really delicious so when he came back to the US he |
| 1:00.2 | discovered that there was really no commercial sources for crickets for people to eat |
| 1:04.3 | most things are just for reptiles and so he decided to create one and in 2014 big cricket farms was born |
| 1:11.7 | so a new company you can check them out at big Cricket Farms.com. |
| 1:16.0 | Kevin, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah, thank you. |
| 1:19.0 | So, tell us about your first experience eating bugs. |
| 1:22.0 | I've been talking about eating bugs on |
| 1:25.0 | this show for a long time. It's the least popular topic ever and I never shut up |
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