Crazy culinary stunt, or foray into our food future?

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Whales live off them. As do stingrays, whalesharks, and countless other sea creatures large and small.

They are the tiny cousins of shrimp called "krill".

Many of the fish we eat either eat krill, or eat fish that eat krilll, or eat fish that eat fish that eat krill.

It been suggested the humans eliminate the various middlemen and harvest krill for our own consumption. As our population grows we may be forced to eat lower on the food chain and Krill is about as low as you can go in seafood.



I just learned something today at work. I count stuff in retail stores for an Inventory service company.

What I learned is: that in America you can actually buy frozen Krill. Not in grocery stores but in frozen zip lock packs at Petco.

Aparently some people keep large predatory marine fish as pets, and theres a market for krill to feed these pets.

Who knew?

As I stood in the door of the Petco freezer and gazed at the stiff flat pack of what looked like pinkish-orange oatmeal it occured to me to wonder what it would be like cook it up in a skillet with a little butter and garlic and put it on a bed of rice. How bad coud it be? It cant be much different from scampi (or anyoter kind of shrimp).

Its a bit expensive, but it would be an interesting culinary experiment.
My question is is there a health hazard in eating something not approved for human consumption that you buy in pet store like that?

I'd eat fresh harvested krill, but I wonder about the safety standards for a pet food. I imagine it's as safe as a lot of restaurant food.

Or we could all adopt a plant-based diet and stop pretending Earth's resources are infinite.

Bee pollen has everything the human needs to survive. It has been labelled a super food. It has been suggested that you could eat it only and get all the nutrients you need. The problem is that your only is that your only suppose to have something like 2 table spoons of it a day.

Krill for human consumption is okiami, and krill (or krill leas) is also used as a flavouring for "crab sticks" and "fish sticks". I would not be comfortable with the contents or the storage temperatures of pet foods.

I wouldn't be comfortable with this as not only am I allergic to seafood, the smell alone produces a strong gag reflex.

Okiami.

Interesting.
So I dont have to gamble on eating pet food, I can just go to a Japanese specialty food place.

I knew that fish sticks in america are often made of Alaskan pollock, but didnt know they were flavored with krill.

Earth's resources are self renewing. However the commercial methods of harvesting and farming are completely backwards. It's a failed business plan.

some of them are under the right conditions,
overfishing is already at grossly unsustainable levels in the meditarnean, the baltic, the north and some species in the norwegian seas, these are the places i have first hand knowledge of.
you should see some of the fishing enterprises japan does for tuna and marlin in the mediteranian, on malta many of the local fishermen cannot sustain their families without breaking conservation laws on other species, sharks among them.