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I have learned that mosquitos actually pollinate. They are minor pollinators and their role is often overlooked.

Unexpected etymology find. The "cide" in both "decide" and other -cide ending words (genocide, patricide, etc) come from the same latin verb, caedere, which means "to cut, kill or strike".

Eating some insects is kosher (Leviticus 11:22) be it grasshoppers and locusts (legs above their bodies and joints before their feet). Bugs are still culturally consumed closest to the equator where they are generally larger and more plentiful. Western colonization is mainly to blame with the lack of entomophagy today, along with increased agriculture. Eliminating bugs hasn’t increased crop yields statistically

Female mosquitos only bite to gather enough protein to lay eggs, otherwise they eat nectar along with the males. There’s a bug cafe in the insectarium in Nola!! A must before moving, look into cooking demo times.

Agriculture for cow and pig feed accounts for 40% of our overall water use. Agriculture as a whole accounts for 80%. Soy in the US is over processed with hexane and other chemicals so it is overall not good to consume. Whey is slightly better but still not the best when compared to bugs

Mountain gorillas have huge stomachs to account for their mainly leaf diet, they need a lot of space to digest the not very nutritious leaves, much like cows. This is also why they are generally lazy as they don’t have much energy. Savanah baboons have digestive tracts most similar to humans and eat a large amount of insects to situation themselves. Bugs are filled with efas (long chain amino fatty acids)good4brain

Basically farm animals have a bad fcr and bugs are great (1.5:1) (cows 10:1!) and are happy with little space or light and cramped fecund conditions.