It's the small things that matter...

Insects?

Its the small things in life, hopefully, I can help the conversation towards conservation?

I mean we need to talk about it don't we?  To discover new ways of living that don't damage our home.

And when I say home, I mean our bodies and inevitably our planet?

I've noticed more as I've gotten older, slight ocd tendencies? not a 'huge' amount, but, you know everything you buy from the supermarket comes in that thin plastic film?

And try as you might, its difficult to avoid unless you live near an artisan market, which I don't - but my husband takes what 'feels like' 10 minutes taking the film off, 'crackling' and excruciating to my ears, my senses and actually 'painful' to me

While me, I do it as quick as I can! to lesson it - maybe it's cos I work with sound, and crackling has no place within it, that it sets my teeth on edge - breakfast cereal, even free from etc - no I don't eat wheat or sugar, it doesn't help my digestion, tho the result keeps me in shape.

Where in the world can we find something else to replace this plastic that cannot be re-cycled, yes coop say bring it there in big bags, but I'm not convinced it's recycled? Are you?

But...that's not the worst of it...

The conversation about wheat and sugar - in the 50's it was still very free range meat and 2 veg, as a child, a small amount of pocket money at 8 ? to spend on sweets and a comic.

Nowadays, sugar is everyday, in everything, and the substance of wheat greatly changed depending on what war is current, where the 'general' supply comes from, and now 'what's added to it'!

I've just seen 'sustainable cheddar cheese puffs' with ingredients of 'cricket flour'! when 'insect flour has pathogens we don't have immunity to'?

https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/novel-food/authorisations/approval-insect-novel-food_en

(Thank you Susie Anthony for pic)

Um is that why we've losing an awful lot of our insects? Cos they're feeding them to us? We really need to read the ingredients!

Maybe it's not the wheat at all I or we, should be concerned with

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2396696

More to do with the smaller writing on ingredients of supermarket food

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-000581_EN.html#:~:text=%5B2%5D%20The%20Commission%20has%20stated,%5D%20(the%20house%20cricket)%20and

"For the first time, the Commission has approved partially defatted powder obtained from Acheta domesticus (the house cricket)[1] as a novel food on the market.[2] The Commission has stated that four insects are now authorised: frozen, dried and powder forms of Tenebrio molitor larva[3] (the yellow mealworm); frozen, dried and powder forms of Locusta migratoria[4] (the migratory locust); and frozen, dried and powder forms of Acheta domesticus[5] (the house cricket) and Alphitobius diaperinus (the lesser mealworm)[6][7]. The European Food Safety Authority is currently carrying out safety assessments on a further eight insects."

Here's me growing an eco system in my garden for my neighbours to eat - No that wasn't the idea, why does everything have to be finitely spelt out!

Your thoughts?