Chitin, Crap and Cricket Farts

Chitin, Crap and Cricket Farts A Teacher''s Guide to Thinking Before You EatA Study Companion to Purple Face Black Hornet Red Fox OneBefore you ask your students to eat the cricket flour brownie, you might want to read this. Chitin, Crap and Cricket Farts uses one of the most beloved and absurd running gags in Purple Face Black Hornet Red Fox One—the ongoing scientific dispute between characters Carlin and Sunny about whether crickets produce methane "from every part of their body" — as a gateway into one of the most important critical thinking skills a student can develop: the ability to trace a mainstream claim back to who funded it, who benefits from it, and whether the science actually says what the headline says it says. In the novel, Carlin is wrong about the mechanism. Sunny is wrong about who''s right. The actual peer-reviewed literature is more complicated than either of them. And that''s the point. This guide helps teachers lead classroom discussions on:• The health issue of eating cricket chitin. • The nitrogen oxide problem—what the science actually says about insect farming emissions, and why it''s a more interesting story than the one being told • Follow the money— which organizations fund insect protein research, and what questions that funding history should prompt students to ask • The mainstream consensus trap— how ideas move from fringe investment pitch to school lunch program without ever passing through a classroom debate Featuring discussion questions, primary source research exercises, and a structured debate format. The goal is not to tell students what to eat. The goal is to teach them to ask who decided—and why. Because the most important skill a student will ever learn is not the answer. It''s noticing when they weren''t given a chance to ask the question.“Triple the methane. That''s the working estimate when you account for the human gut fermentation of indigestible cricket components on top of the farm emissions on top of the frass decomposition. Triple. The cricket promised to save the planet. The cricket is producing a three-act greenhouse gas event: Act One, the farm. Act Two, the frass. Act Three, you, at your desk, forty minutes after the protein bar, hoping nobody notices. The planet notices. The planet notices everything. Learn why cricket protein makes people fart at least five times more than beef. Eat beef jerky. Nothing happens. Eat a protein bar with crickets as a main ingredient and wait for it.”