Bugs can only be used as animal feed in Russia, Yulia Ogloblina has said
Food products made out of insects will never be offered to the Russian people, the deputy head of the parliament’s agriculture committee, Yulia Ogloblina, has assured. This can only happen in the EU where the farming industry is in decline, she added.
Last February, the European Commission approved a new food ingredient for human consumption made from dried and ground mealworm larvae, the young form of beetles. The move became part of the bloc’s plan to introduce more sustainable protein sources, which allows up to 4% of the insect-based powder in products such as bread, cheese, pasta and jams.
Ogloblina told news agency TASS on Tuesday that “in Russia, we have never eaten and will never eat insects. Never… It’s out of the question. I’m saying this solemnly.” Bugs are used “exclusively as feed for fish and animals,” she added.
The Russian authorities will not change their stance on the issue regardless of the findings of any studies into alternative sources of protein, the MP said.
Read more ‘Lucifer’ bee with devil-like horns discovered in AustraliaThe approval of insect-based food products in Western Europe “only confirms that their agriculture is in shambles... It’s so bad that they are now saying: ‘We should be eating crickets, bugs and spiders,’” she said.
“Thank God, everything is fine here. We have plenty of land. That’s why we are sticking to our real Russian food,” Ogloblina stressed.
Last year, the head of the St Petersburg Institute of Management and Food Technologies, Olga Ponomareva, said that sweet bars and yogurts with insect-based proteins could hit the shelves in Russia in the next three to five years, but in order for that to happen “cultural prejudices must be overcome and effective methods of processing and achieving food safety developed.”
Unlike in Europe, insects have long been part of diets in Africa, Asia and Latin America. People in countries such as Mexico and Thailand regularly consume crickets, grasshoppers and beetle larvae.
READ MORE: US to drop billions of flies on Mexico and Texas – AP
The breeding of black soldier flies was added to the list of approved agricultural activities in Russia in 2023. However, the authorities specified that products made from them were only intended as animal feed.
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