To Fight Overpopulation, Food Scientists Develop Maggot Sausage and Insect Ice Cream

From FEE.org (May 3):

To provide more protein for a world with a growing population, scientists are developing meat alternatives such as maggot sausages, the New York Post reports:

Food scientists at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia are incorporating insects such as maggots and locusts into a range of specialty foods, including sausage, as well as formulating sustainable insect-based feeds for the livestock themselves.

Hoffman says conventional livestock production will soon be unable to meet global demand for meat, so other fillers and alternatives will be needed to supplement the food supply with sufficient protein sources.

“An overpopulated world is going to struggle to find enough protein unless people are willing to open their minds, and stomachs, to a much broader notion of food,” says meat science professor Dr. Louwrens Hoffman. “Would you eat a commercial sausage made from maggots?” “One of my students has created a very tasty insect ice cream.”

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Maggot sausage? That’s kind of disgusting. Although a bird might like it.

As a side note, this is what God commanded about insects:

Every flying swarming creature going on all four, it is an abomination to you. Only, this you may eat of any swarming thing which flies, which goes on all four, which has legs above its feet, to leap with them on the earth; these are those you may eat: the locusts according to its kind, and the bald locust according to its kind, and the long horned grasshopper according to its kind, and the short horned grasshopper according to its kind. But every swarming thing which flies, which has four feet, it is unclean to you. (Leviticus 11:20-23).

So, it looks like locusts are okay to eat. Maggots not so much.