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[Dalek]

http://www.cnet.com/news/mmm-cockroach-milk-could-be-a-nutritious-superfood-for-people/

An international group of researchers discovered that milk-like protein crystals produced by Diploptera punctata cockroaches are an excellent source of calories and nutrition. That could be good news for scientists working out how to feed a hungry planet, but gross news for anybody who's squeamish about cockroaches.

The bug's common name is the Pacific beetle cockroach, and it's the only one known to bear live young. The mother roach produces the protein crystals to feed the embryos in the brood sac. Just don't expect farmers to open up vast new cockroach ranches where cockroach-pokes rope, wrangle and milk the insects.

Scientists sequenced the genes for the milk protein to reproduce the substance in a lab. "The crystals are like a complete food -- they have proteins, fats and sugars. If you look into the protein sequences, they have all the essential amino acids," researcher Sanchari Banerjee told the Times of India.

Should the cockroach-inspired protein crystals ever make it to the consumer food market, the manufacturer will have a bit of a PR nightmare to overcome. "Cockroach milk...it does a body good" just doesn't quite sound right.

 

[Kal]

No.

 

[Kayhan]

No.

 

[WascallyWabbit]

don't they put insect-derived ingredients in a lot of day to day stuff?

I def wouldn't eat it, but if they come up with a different name for it then good on them haha

 

[God Dayumm]

Would

 

[Oare]

No.

/thread

 

[MutFox]

Hey, whatever helps the 3rd world.
Privilege would probably be an automatic "no" in the 1st world,
but when you're hungry and malnourished...

 

[Username1198]

*throws up flips table

NOPE

 

[HStallion]

Call it CockMilk! I'm serious, you can't go wrong with that name.

 

[jay]

Now I'm thirsty.

 

[SocksAndShoes]

don't they put insect-derived ingredients in a lot of day to day stuff?

Ever eaten anything that was colored red?

You were eating a (very small amount) of these dudes, dried and ground up.


MMMMMMM, right!?

That would be a natural food dye, not an artificial one.

Whoops, edited that.

 

[Blastoise]

new fetish alert

 

[Kraftwerk]

 

[Septimus Prime]

They'd better name it something weird and hide it in the ingredients list.

 

[adamsappel]

.

 

[Mechazawa]

It says that they reproduce the substance in a lab.

You guys are fucking wusses.

 

[RCSI]

I'll try it if you have it first.

Reminds me of this scene in The Matrix.

 

[echoshifting]

The word superfood is forever tainted now

 

[Magilla]

.

Damn you. Beat me to it! lol

 

[God Dayumm]

Ever eaten anything that was artificially colored red?

You were eating a (very small amount) of these dudes, dried and ground up.


MMMMMMM, right!?

As long as they take out the anus and large intestine I will eat any processed animal

 

[keffri]

Never.

 

[R10Neymarfan]

It's more sustainable than cows milk. If you don't like roach then get plant milk.

Besides they could easily flavor it up and pass it off as something else and you guys would buy in droves

 

[chaosblade]

Sure, why not. It's not even from actual roaches per the article.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

As long as it tastes good, whatever. People still eat Pink Slime so I don't see what's so wrong with this.

 

[Dynomutt]

Do roaches have nipples? Damn, must need some really small hands.

 

[falconxcrunner09]

Is it more or less effective than Fight Milk?

 

[jay]

If we all ate more roaches fewer of you losers would have allergies.

 

[firehawk12]

This can't be any worse than the poop burger from a few years ago.

 

[Mushroomer25]

The biggest branding challenge of the coming century will be selling the first world on bug-based protein in a world that will increasingly frown on factory farming of livestock. Roach milk is just another step, I suppose.

 

[Wag]

Tiny little nipples.

 

[windz]

Is it more or less effective than Fight Milk?

Nothing is more effective than Fight Milk.

CROWS EGG!

 

[Zakalwe]

Vegan. I will never have to endure this. Thank fuck.

 

[mrkgoo]

Roaches are gross.

I scream like a girl when I see them and have to deal with them.

I can deal with other bugs usually.

 

[studyguy]

Snowpiercer here we come.

 

[Despera]

probably taste better than soy milk

 

[Treo360]

Yup

 

[Clydefrog]

I wouldve been okay with it had you not told me it was roach milk!

 

[GreatestHits]

I have to click to load gifs. I knew what Kraftwerk's gif was before it loaded lol. I wonder what a nice tall glass of that stuff would taste like. Actually no, I don't..

 

[AgentChris]

I still find it weird that we humans drink milk from cows. I still drink milk; just strange when I think about it.

 

[Reverend Funk]

if it tastes good and is good for the environment I'm all in

 

[Pendas]

I always laugh when Women say bugs are icky... yet they have no problems smearing insect parts all over their face.

There's bug stuff in a lot of things already. This doesn't bother me in the slightest.

 

[Murder. She Wrote]

Sure, I'm down!

 

[Muffdraul]

"Mmmm, this is delicious, what is it?"

"Roach milk!"

*pphhffwehhh*

 

[SRG01]

On a related note, castoreum -- an extract of beaver anal glands -- is used as vanilla flavoring in some food products.

 

[elrechazado]

I still find it weird that we humans drink milk from cows. I still drink milk; just strange when I think about it.

Why is it more odd to ingest a product produced by an animal that is similar to our own mammalian products than to literally eat the flesh of that animal?

 

[Mr. Giggles]

But..... Why?

 

[AgentChris]

Why is it more odd to ingest a product produced by an animal that is similar to our own mammalian products than to literally eat the flesh of that animal?

Maybe because humans produce milk themselves.

 

[VexMythoclast]

Nope. Even pictures or hell the word cockroach makes my skin crawl. Fuck this.

 

[MattKeil]

Maybe because humans produce milk themselves.

...as opposed to flesh?

 

[Malfunky]

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