Source: Hormel CEO Shifts Focus to Non-Meat Brands
Insects for food. The manufacturer of a canned animal byproduct manufactured for human consumption is steering his company to non-animal proteins.
Just what the hell is going on?
I’m not quite sure what is happening but it’s clearly happening.
Spoiler Alert
The answer is more beer.
The Swiss supermarket chain Coop, to a bit of domestic hoopla, has begun selling burgers and balls made from insects. It’s being billed as a legal first in Europe, a continent more accustomed to steak, sausage, poultry and fish as a source of protein. The goal is to convince leery consumers to try a nutritious, if unusual food that “preserves the planet’s resources,” Coop says. About one-third of the burger is mealworm larvae. A burger weighing 100 grams (3.5 ounces) has about 10 grams of protein in it — about the same amount found in a child’s-size beef burger.
Source: Yuck or yum? Swiss offer insect burgers of mealworm larvae. Associated Press
Prescription benzodiazepines continue to be commonly prescribed drugs for treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. In 2015, more than 32 million people over the age of 12 reported use of benzodiazepines in the previous year. Of these, nearly 20% used benzodiazepines in a pattern of misuse (Figure 1).1 Benzodiazepines also ranked second among misused/abused drug related visits to the ED by patients aged 65 and older in 2011.2 The rates of long term benzodiazepine use have steadily increased over time. A retrospective study showed an age-related increase in the percentage of benzodiazepine use with higher rates of any benzodiazepine use in women at any age.3 Most of the patients with long term benzodiazepine use received their prescriptions from prescribers who were not psychiatrists.4 Benzodiazepine dependence can be seen within just 3-6 weeks of regular use at therapeutic doses.3
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