Crickets on the Chopping Block in Senate Spending Bill

[tecelote]

Arizona’s junior senator has a beef with crickets, and the use of federal funds to develop easier and more delicious ways to eat them.

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., has submitted an amendment to the four-bill spending package (HR 6147), under consideration on the Senate floor this week, that would prohibit funds “to support the development of insect-based foods for human consumption, including cricket farming and taste-testing of insect-based foods.”

You may have seen packets of crunchy barbecue or honey-mustard flavored crickets — or mealworms — at specialty food markets like MOM’s Organic Market on New York Avenue in the Ivy City neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Some view it as a tasty treat while others consider it a sideshow. But scientists — including ones funded by the grants Flake is targeting — have a broader goal of developing insects as a viable protein source that can be produced more cheaply than traditional animal livestock to address future global hunger challenges.

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https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/crickets-on-the-chopping-block-in-senate-spending-bill

[democratisphere]

1. What is Flake going to do when insects are the only living creatures

left on Earth after the humans have made every other living creature extinct?! redumbliCONS can't think past the end of next week.
Please pass the chocolate covered ants.

[rzemanfl]

2. They don't think that far ahead, it would be speculative.