Raise Your Own Edible Bugs With This Decorative Kitchen PodThe U.N. recently suggested (not for the first time) that we put a bit more crunchy insect protein into our diets. Eating bugs could provide a sustainable source of snackage--they produce less greenhouse gas than cattle those four-legged methane-factories and don't require as much farmland as animals. In fact you can raise insects right in your kitchen!That's the goal of Lepsis a prototype countertop grasshopper breeder from designer Mansour  Ourasanah in collaboration with KitchenAid. As a symbol of change the product is a constant remember of the importance of food its infinite diversity and our contribution in the survival of the planet and the fate future generations Ourasanah writes in his design summary.Lepsis comes with four different units--one each for breeding growing harvesting and killing your next delicious grasshopper burger. So far it's just in the prototype phase and there aren't a whole lot of specifics on how exactly the different units work--like whether it will kill your dinner swarm for you--but it's a cool concept.Even though growing and eating insects is pretty repulsive to many people in the developed world an attractive product like the Lepsis could help people to warm to the idea Inhabitat writes. America: where our eating habits can be entirely swayed by pretty new kitchen accessories. [Inhabitat]Instead of eating the bugs yourself you can get a chicken and feed the bugs to the chicken (they like them I don't) then you can eat the chicken eggs and if you're feeling a bit choppy you can eat the chicken!Black soldier flies produce pretty great larvae. They're sold commercially as Phoenix Worms.  Chickens love 'em! And you can grown them on kitchen scraps.  They also ward off houseflies for reasons I don't quite understand and they look like black wasps so they scare the neighbors for a bonus!You can then use the chicken manure to fertilize duckweed ponds use the duckweed to feed tilapia filter the tilapia water thru a gravel growbed use the gravel growbed to grow vegetables and eat the tilapia and the vegetables use the tilapia guts and veggie scraps to feed the black soldier fly larvae and the cycle starts again. Aquaponics for the win! All better than eating bugs.Plain and simple.  Insect consumption will not get going in America until the process and product are sufficiently hidden from the consumer.  The majority of Americans do not go to the grocer looking for a piece of raw cow - they are in search of 'beef' (for example) which has already been processed down into something that is easy on the eyes and doesn't evoke revulsion.  Likewise people do not want to prepare a bowl of bugs but with a little education and social conditioning they may slowly warm to the idea of processed insect 'meat' as in small blocks of 'meat' that don't actually look anything like bugs which Americans are not interested in (except for to brag about as a culinary adventure at some trendy dive).Insect consumption proponents.  If you want to get a foothold in the North American market (I for one am rooting for you) then stop showing people pictures of bugs or even cleverly prepared bugs.  Instead begin by creating some nice euphemisms for insect meat (along the lines of pork and beef) and look into creative ways of processing the raw material into consumer friendly and meal preparation friendly packaging (think tofu).They're not so bad when you think of them as land shrimp bring out the cocktail sauce and ice bucket thanks for providing the grub bro.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5GGKoYuXHsIf when you bite into one of those little critters anything squishy comes out count me out ewwwwww! If its totally crunchy I might give it a try lolIf you think Rose`s story is shocking..Start working at home with Google! It's by-far the best job Ive had. Last Monday I got a new Alfa Romeo from bringing in $7778. I started this 9 months ago and practically straight away started making more than $83 per hour. I work through this link Bling6.comjust before I checked out the bill of exchange of $5122 I did not believe that...my... brothers friend was actualey receiving cash part-time from there new portable computer.. there dads pal has been doing this for beneath fifteen months and recently cleard the morgage on their appartment and bourt a brand new Ford Focus. we have a tendency to looked here...... w ­w ­w.b ­a ­y ­9 ­5.c ­o ­m