Strongself

Ingredients:                                                                                    

• ½ soft avocado
• ¾ cup frozen peas
• 1 (15 oz.) can cannellini beans
• 1 med. sweet potato
• 1 red pepper
• 3 cups vegetable stock
• ¾ cup frozen corn
• 1 Macintosh apple (remove core and stem-leave skin)
• 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
• Salt
• Pepper
• Parsley flakes
• Basil flakes

Directions:

• Cut up and steam red pepper and sweet potatoes (with skin) until soft
• In a blender place the avocado, peas, ½ can cannellini beans, apple, vegetable stock + steamed red pepper and sweet potato
• Add all blended ingredients to a pot as well as the other half of the beans, corn, salt, pepper, parsley, basil, and maple syrup.
• Medium flame, stir and serve hot.

Entomophagy derived from Latin and Greek is the term for feeding on insects. Many believe it is the future of food. It may be the only way to assure a sustainable future to feed mass populations. “Eating Insects Athens” published the results of how those who study insects are now looking toward finding ways of eating them. Snacking on insects is not a new idea, in fact Aristotle is reported to have favored. eating cicadas. Christopher Columbus related how Native Americans needed to be educated on proper eating since insects were a big part of their diet. At present, billions of people consume over 2,100 different insect species. Chapul a company on Amazon sells items such as cricket flour and protein insect bars. The company pitches eating insects as an alternative protein source and as means of returning to native ways of eating. Raising livestock as a food source requires enormous amounts of water and the animals are responsible for eliminating large amounts of methane gas. We have been programmed to look upon insects with fear and disgust since we view them as a sign of filth. However, just as meat and fish have safety restrictions and regulations, insects need to have similar regulation to be considered safe for human consumption. The North American Coalition of Insect Agriculture was recently formed  Its purpose is to help with the acceptance and regulation of introducing bugs into our diet. It won’t be long before we see cricket parmigiano on the menu.