L'insecte, cru ou cuit, est l'avenir de l'homme La Thaïlande montre le chemin. Le pays est champion du monde de la consommation d'insectes. Or, la nourriture de demain pourrait être exclusivement composée d'insectes riches en protéines et dont l'élevage impacte peu l'écosystème. Hannetons grillés? Bien moins gourmands en tout cas que les bovins, les insectes possèdent un excellent ratio entre nourriture consommée et protéines issues de leur consommation. En Thaïlande, en tout cas, les insectes se dégustent sans modération.
Feeding the world: oh not organic Daring talk by agriculture expert Louise Fresco, who has the guts to break the organic trance of the fashionably-natural-farmers-market people at TED. During her talk she is holding up two loaves, one in each hand: Wonder Bread, and artisian whole meal bread. Fresco says that we feel whole meal bread is more real, more honest, more authentic. “Why do we feel that whole meal bread has these attributes? “200 years ago we had industrial revolution. “You may prefer the artisanal bread, but don’t despise the white bread. “As food became plentiful it also meant we were able to decrease the number of people working in agriculture. Via BoingBoing.
Meat the Truth From the author: Climate Change and Global Warming - yes I know, it's a hoax, it's a scam and designed to keep us in fear and implement a Carbon Tax, as if we aren't already taxed to death. This video discusses an issue that is almost always overlooked when officials and science discuss climate. What about the 90 BILLION animals raised for food production. The energy to grow their food, to feed them, to transport them, to slaughter and finally to your local grocer in the form of packaged flesh OR prepared / frozen meals and various by-products. Let's not forget these billions of beings produce massive amounts of feces and urine and it has to go somewhere. Negative health issues aside, this practice most certainly contributes to wide scale pollution and contamination of our air, water and land. The documentary Meat the Truth is the first major project undertaken by the Nicolaas G. Watch the full documentary now -
Insect Sex-Ed If you’ve ever wondered how an earthworm or a barnacle has sex, you’ve probably never thought to ask Isabella Rossellini. But she knows. And you can even watch her demonstrate it – in a series of short films Rossellini has developed and starred in for the Sundance Channel, entitled ‘Green Porno’. I admit, when I received a copy of the accompanying catalogue to ‘Green Porno’ recently – which looked like the kind of children’s book you might find in a museum shop and featured a photograph of Rossellini on the cover cuddling up to a giant shrimp made of construction paper – I dismissed her, and the project, as crazy. And she still, in fact, might be. Each of Rossellini’s campy, instructional films is not much more than a minute long, and each stars Rossellini as some kind of insect or sea creature, dressed in a makeshift costume made of paper or other disposable materials. Christy Lange is contributing editor of frieze d/e and associate editor of frieze.