We Need to Eat Bugs & Insects to Save the Planet - Dr. Berg

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now someone had a question on one of my comments relating to bugs because a recent report says insects are the future of food bugs for dinner eating insects they want us to all eat bugs by 2050 because of the rise of population will be roughly about maybe 9 billion people on this planet so how we’re going to feed them I mean everyone knows this fact because the climate change and beef is not sustainable we need to find other sources of food I like to say my life mission is a bug that tastes like bacon and yes they even say the grass-fed regenerative farming type agriculture needs to go because of all the cow burping and the methane and what that does to the environment because that’s the big problem and one of the big solutions would be the bugs because they’re so high in protein and they’re so nutrient dense well let’s do a little breakdown of this topic because if we take 100 gr of these bugs in this 100 G we have about 12 G of actual protein and there’s about five G of fat 5 G of carbs little iron little tiny bit of fat but is 12 G enough for our bod’s uh actually no if we do the math and look at the actual number of crickets that we’re going to have to eat to get close to this protein we’re going to have to 4X that that’s a nice big bucket of crickets but for a lot of people they’re going to need to eight times that figure every single day to get their protein amount I guess we can mash them up and put them into pizzas and with all these other different flavorings we can put them and burgers sweeten them and that might be a solution but what about the cost uh it’s going to be quite expensive right but they can bring the cost down by feeding the Crickets you know cheaper materials like maybe corn soy beet sugar something like that the problem with that is the nutrition comes down you know and then the protein level comes down and that’s one little issue quite expensive to have healthy insects to eat okay number two we’re going to have to get everyone to give up their traditional cultural foods and that might take some work I think that the first bite is the hardest and then after that people go wow they that’s tastes pretty good oh the crunch number three and this is probably the biggest one when you compare an insect with beef it’s not the same for anyone to say that it’s identical they’re lying through their teeth it’s not even close and I’m not just talking about the protein I’m talking about the quality of protein I’m talking about the nutrition all these other are factors that is in beef that is not in crickets so don’t buy into that it’s the same thing number four insects carry pathogens so there’s one study in 2019 that evaluated uh quite a few Cricut Farms that were developing edible crickets and 81% of them had parasites 30% were potentially pathogenic there’s also a higher incidence of worms and crickets and viruses and bacteria and funguses then we have the safety studies right we have to do all that then we’re going to have to probably heat and cook these insects to kill off the microbes but then we’re also going to kill off a lot of the nutrition as well there’s this unregulated field of using pesticides on these insects so you can use different chemicals to kind of manage uh some of these other um factors that are can be growing in these uh bugs then the next thing is that if someone has an allergy to shellfish okay because there’s a similar protein involved chances are they’ll also have an allergy to bugs if they start consuming them and then the next factor is that these bugs have this exoskeleton it’s like bones outside their body and the main compound in there is called kiten it’s an anti-nutrient it’s not digested by our microbiome and it also blocks vitamin A and vitamin E and so this is just another negative and so now we’re doing another human pilot experiment that will put people in bugs and then see what happens after yours my viewpoint on the future of food being bugs does not look like it’s going to happen there are too many negative points about this now if you want to know what I think you should be eating right now to regain your health and be super healthy I think it’s probably the most healthy food that you can eat it’s right here check it out