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Next week in Switzerland will begin to sell meat products, made of insects. “Coop” – the second largest Swiss supermarket chain – decided to take such an unusual step after of how officials of a European country revised laws on product safety.
Meatballs, meatballs, meatballs and burgers from flour worms already in a few days they’ll go to the store shelves in Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne and other major cities of this state. Outlandish products will be produced locally startup company “Essento”.
Thus, Switzerland will become the first EU country where insect food will be sold. In May of this year, they accepted the law that permitted the sale of food based on flour worms, grasshoppers and crickets.
These creatures, considered safe for human consumption. in food, are bred under strict control on special farms. Only the fifth generation of insects is considered suitable for making food, so growing such unusual raw materials for “meat products” takes several months. However, this is still faster than raising pigs and even more so gobies.
Many scientists from all over the world report that meat from insect is a product of the future that will solve the problem world hunger and force humanity to abandon breeding mammals “for meat”. Firstly, it is inhumane, and secondly, too expensive, thirdly, animal husbandry is one of The main reasons for creating a greenhouse effect on our planet. AND finally, beef, and even more so pork, is more harmful to the human body than good. According to doctors and nutritionists, “meat products” from insects are much more useful for person, well, the gustatory qualities of such food, as gourmets say, quite consistent with generally accepted ideas about meat dishes …
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