Crickets

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Climate change is a big, important issue for the European Union (EU) in all their policy-making. It is the primary issue behind closing down farms in The Netherlands. It is an issue for energy decisions like Germany's goal to shut down their nuclear plants ("climate neutral").

Regarding the forcible closing of farms, I raised a question of food security - namely, what will happen to the supply of food for the Dutch people and for the people who import Dutch meat? 

One answer to that question may be revealed now. This month the EU approved the addition of a fourth insect variety that may be added to foods. "House crickets" will be grown, starved for 24 hours, killed, and ground into powder. They will be added at the rate of 1%-2.5% into foods like manufactured snacks.

This author says that the policy may make sense to Europeans because they want to devote large land areas to solar farms and wind rather than to farming. That's the connection to climate change. 

But don't worry, the choice of whether to eat insects instead of meat is still a personal choice in Europe. So far.

Note: I didn't include a repulsive picture in this post. Google it.