In East Africa: Worst Locust Swarms In Decades

Toward the end of 2019, East Africa was met with unusually wet weather. This contributed to the massive outbreak of locusts, pests that destroy crops and can be a serious threat to food security in the region. Currently, hundreds of millions of desert locusts swarm in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. The number is one of the biggest numbers seen in over 25 years.

See the photos over at The Atlantic.

(Image Credit: Ben Curtis/ AP)


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AIUI, because the locust eat the human's foodstuff and crops, leaving nothing, it is declared that Jews and other desert dwellers may eat locust, on the grounds that the Jew's normal food is now prepacked into locust. They prepare the locust by wrapping it in simple pastry and baking in embers.
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Pardon me, but aren't locusts edible? As in: A source of necessary proteins and some minerals? Don't some societies gather them and store them for making into, well, food? So when they appear in mass quantities, are we stressing about loss of food, when it's just another form?
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