Gross or Brilliant? Using Bugs to Feed the Animals We Eat | National Geographic

[@GuoSlice]

why would this be gross? You would never eat a fish that has eaten earthworms?

[@sel4205]

yaggle fraggle he said -a fish that has eaten worms....

[@sel4205]

yaggle fraggle i repeat again._ he said a fish that has eaten worm. He didn't compare

[@sel4205]

Sorry if it seems rude but you really need lessons on reading comprehension

[@sel4205]

yaggle fraggle well according to the video, people are getting disgusted because they are eating chickens that had worms in their diet( which is stupid ) So, the guy asked whether no one has ate a fish that has eaten worms. That's it. He didn't compare it to worms

[@ichifish]

I was going to ask the same question.

[@ardeleanu8663]

Why would this be gross? Chickens are naturally omnivores and will eat bugs and worms even lizards and small mice. It's very healthy for them to get some protein and they actually prefer meat if given a choice between grain and bugs. Also, I find chickens fed with heavily processed feed a lot more gross than the ones eating straight from nature, whether it's whole grain or bugs/maggots.

[@TheRoyalBum]

3 years from now people are gonna be upset about how we treat insects

[@i.i.iiii.i.i]

At least their brains are less likely to have an advanced conscience which means they suffer way less in mass production and before the final execution ;)

[@sexysalmon4411]

Im vegetarian so ive considered that many times now when ppl are killing dozens of animals in industry killing insects is nothing I dont feel bad for them...but if we stopped killing animals than killing insects would be bad for many...actual vegans But not for me

[@macandtech8916]

PETA already made a video about how honey isn't vegan and they basically call the industry cruel.

[@lukelim5094]

@@macandtech8916 Then PETA will blame people for even things like vertical farming for example like how we are taking important soil and water from the nature and denying living creatures their rightful resources. I swear the hidden agenda of PETA is the destruction of mankind from what they are suggesting.

[@AaronJCassidy]

I think you've got to be at least a little bit psychopathic if you show zero empathy towards animals. But whatever, I'm just nothing but a [current buzzword], right?

[@snoopysn100]

we should have been doing this all along, it cuts down on the feed costs significantly, and is better all the way around.

[@apple-on5pq]

feeding bugs are more expensive

[@apple-on5pq]

@rajesh vengat you need a place to breed those flies as well as workers to maintain the whole process.

[@amechelb]

Tv apple Vs fish meal where you need massive boats and are depleting the oceans. Ya raising bugs is more affordable and susatainable than other animal protein sources.

[@apple-on5pq]

@@amechelb they dont feed chicken with fish meal

[@amechelb]

@tv apple yes yes some people do including myself. Any non vegetarian feed has fish meal as a stable animal protein source.

[@carlospeval7486]

Brilliant! Reuse, Reduce, RECYCLE!

[@andrewtram3256]

R...R...R...You saying you like the idea?

[@satee4821]

I use soldier flies. They are normally in my compost. I don’t even have a degree in science and this is common sense stuff. Wake up people McDonalds isn’t the only place food comes from. I feel like I’m surrounded by unenlightened people, who barely know what’s going on.

[@En1337Rich]

Brilliant, and so many usable applications. I'd invest.

[@royalandrosey]

Different languages just amaze me. His speech is so different so interesting to hear

[@fredfrond6148]

I have a worm farm which eats my garbage from fruit peels and some vegetable waste. They love the waste and I get the best fertilizer for my house plants that you can imagine. I would have no problem feeding some of the worms to chickens as a treat. But my worms are working worms eating food waste and giving me fertilizer.

[@professorm4171]

These fly larvae eat a lot more and faster than worms.

[@jimmyrice5317]

Great presentation of using natural insects and worms to feed chickens and birds. I feed my turtle earth worms, meal worms, grass hoppers, moths, it's all naturally grown.

[@janospergely3805]

my chickens love worms! this video is trying to show that the meat we eat should be eating worms vs dry feed. this helps because the worms will eat the waste that would normally go into a land fill and then the worms get eaten by chickens :) so many ppl being like "dont chickens eat worms". NOT THE CHICKENS YOU EAT... the chicken meat we buy in the store are chickens that are cooped up in a 1 foot by 1 foot box.. terrible. eating dry corn feed forever. chickens NEED VARIETY and they NEED to keep busy.

[@vlnal1477]

Excellent idea.... free range Chicken naturally eat bugs & insects in the wild not artificial feed.... Chicken becomes more natural

[@kouliebai]

This is a great idea! protein is protein!

[@SanjuSingh]

So what about eating human meat? It's protein too.

[@willchu]

@@SanjuSingh You're an idiot.

[@user-hz5ft3jr9r]

@Noah Smith o great persons here , He/ she saying that ironically because in china people are sparing noone. Which causes diseases and pandemics 😢😢😢

[@user-hz5ft3jr9r]

@@willchu you are also same Now you will be able to understand when CCP virus transmit Protein is protein You all are dark spot on humanity Good luck for pandemics

[@user-hz5ft3jr9r]

@Noah Smith you lack sense of humour

[@thegreatestmantoeverwlkthe4819]

Not gross or brilliant... it’s common freakin sense

[@petratrading2741]

THIS IS WHAY I DO. I farm mealworms and feed them to my quails, and my quails lay eggs everyday, and when they’re old or too many males, I eat them. I only buy the oats to breed the worms and they don’t eat that much

[@petratrading2741]

“What”

[@joeytruett5250]

I am thinking about doing this with farm fresh chickens.

[@pacquiaogotrobbed8293]

What do the worms eat?

[@petratrading2741]

Pacquiao Got robbed I give them oats, and carrot for water. Google how to farm mealworms

[@philxdev]

you have something good going on.. wouldn´t be to bad if you would also try out superworms that just look like a bigger version of mealworms, or in addition to that black soldier flys which could give you the benefit of not having to buy any oats and just use your "food garbage" from your house or get food garbage for free at the next farmers markets...

[@zuutlmna]

Someone needs to invent some sort of containment chamber-habitat (that could be sold in feed-stores, etc.) where cockroaches or other bugs within the chamber could be fed kitchen/food scraps, allowed to hyper-populate, then harvested at intervals for feeding the bugs to the chickens!! As it is, my chickens just get a bug now and then. But they love eating bugs.. Insert food scraps and water into bug chamber, then harvest nearly free feed for happy chickens!! If feed stores would sell such an apparatus, I'd buy one!

[@davideddy2672]

Just make one - that or take a cordless hoover out into a nearby piece of grassland or meadow … simples 😉

[@Iquey]

CHICKENS ARE BIRDS. MOST BIRDS ARE INSECTIVORES ALREADY. I'm just always dumbfounded how farmers don't give the chickens in America a varied diet, and plump them up with either mainly corn or soy. If you let chickens eat what they're naturally supposed to eat, the eggs and meat will be a lot better!

[@calmones333]

Iquey i might start just eating bugs myself but im a little apprehensive still.

[@sunshine7453]

Feeding animals with bug is much healthier than the food that farmers currently used since it is made from recycled oil. Bug has high and healthy protein and are great for human consumption directly.

[@catbernardo3485]

This is better than commercial feeds..natural no preservatives

[@ijuldzulfadli903]

Brilliant, pretty common and beneficial.

[@hyouzanren1846]

A big yes!

[@cool7654321]

How about we just eat bugs.

[@leelee-xm7yx]

Have fun✌

[@jackleo4435]

Pound for pound insects have more protein than a steak. The amount of water and food given to a single cow and raise thousands of nutritious healthy insects. Ever had crab or lobster? Same thing.

[@TheBraulio7850]

It’s more efficient, more protein, less fat, less resources. Not a bad idea

[@gyrotech777]

Or plants?

[@sabayonz]

why eat something taste less if we can eat taste full food for the same amount of nutrient

[@secretcctvcameraOG]

Cool!

[@sowmiyasivan5646]

How the mass production will be done....please say information about mass production of this...

[@rinchhensherpa6972]

WOW this was uploaded in 2015? and here I am in almost 2019 coming to know about BSF ( Black Soldier Flies).

[@JudyChilds-fu4em]

It's not a plague, as long as the chickens and others eat and digest it...But not to have the Earth covered with flies!!💕

[@otobriseparadise871]

i do use de- watered pure poultry not fermented waste as substrate for my black soldier fly larvae to feed on and if i have to be honest with you guys, i have totally replaced soya bean with black soldier fly larvae in my fishery, piggery and poultry , i can now smile all the way.

[@danielking104]

They didn't say but any meat that is raised with bugs taste so much better. Or you can continue to eat those chicken and fish that taste like protein powder.

[@LemonyFresh2000]

Who the heck is dumb enough to think that even us eating bugs is gross let alone feeding the animals that we eat???

[@woodgrain816]

Great idea! I hate reading "vegetarian diet"on the egg carton. Does that mean insects included in the diet?

[@veniqer]

Nope. It means the poor chickens eat grains.

[@EeJoKi]

Cool video! But why not to use this to turn kitchen waste to protein source for humans directly? Wouldn't that be more convenient for environment? But this is still much better way to feed chicken than with fodder.

[@newdimension4731]

AT LAAAAAAAAAAST! the farms are going back to the basics. Let them eat bugs. chicken each bugs and little rocks, fish each INSECTS (you guys never saw a fish jumping out of the water to catch em? never gone fishing in your life?) geeze don't only eat grass and water grass they eat BUGS I mean come on, that's their food so Bravo for not using industrial grain.

[@IvanChin97]

Brilliant!!!!

[@yethuraj4873]

Superb

[@umai21]

Great idea... Using bug as feeds... More cheaper than traditional feeds.Not just chicken, fish, cow, lamb etc can benefit from this.

[@KLFD530]

Hahaha i used to have a colony of those insects in the clip art. They love compost bins

[@hithitnaw]

Brilliant

[@dollyperry3020]

I don't have an issue with using bugs as part of chicken feed. However I would have a problem with it being the sole food product. I think an assortment of food sources such as food refuse, bugs, and corn or seeds is a perfect situation.

[@philxdev]

it is very simple.. if you get your "food waste" from farmers markets, like smashed oranges, salads and stuff you could very well give the chicken some of that unprocessed and in addition use the bugs that are fed on the waste..

[@CountingStars333]

@@philxdev exactly. Plus waste carbs/rice etc.

[@seancronin5059]

These people are way ahead of thier time 50 yrs from nw 80 percent of food xonsumed will be insect based

[@mountainboyoakley3119]

Fantastic idea.

[@sabayonz]

full of nutrient, very natural and cheap, of course this is brilliant

[@Phlegethon]

Insects have feelings too!

[@MrKuger9]

Brilliant idea, next up billionaire!

[@meghanachauhan9380]

Stop stealing my ideas omfg

[@devrim-oguz]

I think that is what the chickens were meant to do in the first place...

[@veniqer]

It's why the chicken crossed the road.

[@bondbond4687]

Haters will hate. After 7 years this is in almost every country

[@asylanten_boot3076]

Is there such a company listed on an stock market

[@TheKlink]

brilliant.

[@Cooliostuff]

...or we could just eat the bugs

[@daniswara1164]

It's really good way to process food waste from restaurants

[@FUreplygirl]

This guy must of watched snowpiercer.

[@chaoscreator4188]

Now all that’s needed is a sustainable way for the plastics and other waist

[@cyantwo936]

Feeding birds bugs is brilliant now? I have a brilliant idea, we should feed water to plants too.

[@eklectiktoni]

Lol

[@kaushikvarma9887]

U will be surprised how less it's being used

[@pacquiaogotrobbed8293]

This is brilliant now we should learn to segregate food waste and feed them to these flies. WHAT WE NEED IS DISCIPLINE AS HUMANS

[@JM-gk2et]

I think it’s a great idea. I live in LA and I breed Blue Tilapias I also breed mealworms for my Tilapias....

[@mesumjoram7090]

Here in my place the chickens have been eating it raw for centuries🤣

[@jayzllust6120]

It looks delicious!! love it!

[@hadihussein313]

Why not?

[@chryssecg4625]

gross for what reason?

[@DogFoxHybrid]

Another, even more direct way to re-extract nutrients is with mushrooms.

[@actanonverba91]

Eggs are a superfood and chickens are awesome

[@nelioanderson5315]

Brilliant. The same amount of animal protein requires 10 times food vegetation to feed that animal. Less acreage used to feed animals allowing us to grow more vegetables for human consumption

[@Bessie-vb9yw]

Totally brilliant. All natural. If only the flies know the atrocities that await their babies. He he...not that I care. Maggots are gross

[@lexirandle2497]

How is this even an "idea"?

[@lmeza1983]

they are figuring out what insects are more beneficial and are trying to industrialize the process instead of using modified and super expensive agriculture techniques, animals feeding from insects is as old as they have existed....

[@rickjac6909]

why cant roaches be used like this insect?

[@mohammadyusuf1299]

A lot of people do this in indonesia.. save up to 50% cost in poultry and fisheries business... back to nature

[@pamsimonson5500]

Bugs are the key to our nutritional health. Animals including humans

[@bonnitaclaus5085]

It is brilliant. Anything but gross it is a natural food for many animals and a protein that their bodies are well-adjusted to digest. Even herbivores Will digest a certain amount of bugs. I rays bugs for my chickens, and I actually buy some frozen. It is superior to other forms of protein. In the case of chickens they cannot digest and utilize plant protein, they must get it from animal or bugs. Vegetarian chickens and nutritionally deficient unless they’re given supplements they are also prone to more diseases. Your eggs are nothing but a Cholesteryl bombs because they have no other nutrition in them.

[@markus9641]

Why can't we eat the bugs and feed ourselves to the animals?

[@adrianzodd2]

I love this

[@hadesdogs4366]

Both high in protein and environmentally stable

[@user-ww2lc1yo9c]

It is brilliant and gross However, a more important question is, what is the supposed to be natural diet of the animals that are being fed this and how much does feeding this to them differ from their natural diet

[@matthewodonnellgavaghan]

Sigh. Those poor, innocent insects.

[@Buttersausage]

Good feed I bet it’s high on protein and fats

[@kotk05]

Mmmmm, larvae

[@duyataksis5210]

I'm definitely going with brilliant.

[@wilsione]

Better than roaches!

[@axlh.1827]

Isn’t that just normal in the food chain?

[@andhikaputra4038]

Why would it be gross to feed them insects if the final product won't have any noticeable trace of it anyway? Not that there's anything wrong with insects since finding things "gross" is due to differences in culture.

[@papercat2599]

No

[@saddamhussain189]

Wow

[@Brainchild69]

As far as poultry or fish feed, yeah sure, but not for livestock feed. When animals are fed things they don't naturally eat is one way we run into problems.

[@pradeepkachari4648]

Well some animals do eat insects like hogs. Of course you should not feed insects to cows or goats.

[@CountingStars333]

Pigs eat insects naturally

[@CountingStars333]

@@pradeepkachari4648 yes.

[@August12350]

I used to fish with earth worm......lol...

[@damonz.1474]

If chicken love it

[@MsPlastina1]

Where do you get b soldier flies?

[@quangtuantran7181]

Oh look, chicken eating bugs, so do we sometimes.

[@konsul2006]

I like it!

[@agrigrubltd.9909]

Brilliant. It's definitely brilliant!

[@dahauzofjuvy4029]

I also do this for my chicken

[@kaijohn9050]

Please.....it so simple and sad Ive never considered it. Something like this can fix our planet

[@Eatdrinkcoconut001]

Misleading there are many animals that eat insects such as birds for example.

[@tintonbagustriyoko8676]

It isn't gross, it's natural, and healthy, it will produce healthy chicken meat

[@psychobunny32]

did anyone notice the chickens wearing glasses?

[@psychobunny32]

thank you. your girls seem very happy.

[@maricrisfernandez9139]

larval feeds for hatcheries pls

[@chrisshepherd8708]

Has the FDA approved it for livestock feed?

[@nikolavucetic7692]

I dont know about America but i know that just 3 or 4 African country have ban this method of feeding.

[@lenny108]

gross means that they feed these bugs to cows.

[@jabloko992]

A true vegan nightmare come true

[@lmeza1983]

lol

[@superdumpfback4041]

I think most vegans would approve of this because this method saves alot of ressources

[@dawuid1491]

What the heck are you talking about lol, many vegan would probably love this.

[@MsPlastina1]

Vegans dont eat chicken

[@aprioriontoast704]

it's better than feeding livestock animals fish and other remains but I vote we stop breeding and killing livestock in the first place.

[@trilobyte3851]

My dog will not approve of moving dog food...

[@sankyuanime736]

TheFly he use are not the fly you see in your trash. The Fly he uses are BSF (Black Soldier Fly). Because only BSF have bigger maggot that can be eat by fish, chicken and anyelse.

[@randombirdo3888]

I support this

[@HassanKhan-xs7zh]

how cam i make this insect