"We should start eating Insects" by Marco Visscher

[cousinlucky]

I have discovered a great dieting aid. It is this atricle.
It is four printed pages long but I can't even read the entire first page before my stomach balls up in a knot.

No supper needed tonight.

AlterNet: "We Should Start Eating Insects"

[elija]

Oh man!

Bookmarked for when I have the munchies!

[fingal]

Ahhhh grasshoppers. Never thought of them as food though. I used to like catching them when I was a teenager.

[ryokimball]

My commentary...

livestock is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, including methane and nitrous oxide.

'Tis true! Cows are killing the ozone layer faster than cars are!

Visscher: Isn't it primitive to eat insects?
van Huis: It's quite normal for most of the world.

A biased question if ever there was one; even in America it's not impossible (although sometimes hard, depending where you live) to find suckers with grasshoppers and centipedes in them.

Isn't the psychological barrier in the West simply too great?

Uh, yeah! Most Westerners are still running Windows!

I don't think I'd be eating house flies or earthworms any time soon, but if I thought about it fixing up a grasshopper (or a similar herbivore heterotrophs) wouldn't be that bad to experiment with.

********Don't read this part if you just ate, or plan to soon.
Once long ago my mother was fixing rice and apparently had a very old box in the cabinet. She didn't notice, or at least didn't tell us, that there had been maggots in it until at least half of my plate was emptied.....

[fingal]

I don't think I'd be eating house flies or earthworms any time soon, but if I thought about it fixing up a grasshopper (or a similar herbivore heterotrophs) wouldn't be that bad to experiment with.

Or snails! Good with garlic and some white wine...

[ryokimball]

Or snails! Good with garlic and some white wine...

lol I would have to learn how to prepare them and do it myself; as far as I'm concerned, snails are slugs with shells, which is a lot better, but from country life, I still have icky memories of walking around/outside at night and squishing them between my toes....

[techieMoe]

Are insects a viable food source? Certainly.
Do I think the western world will catch on to them any time soon? Certainly not.

[oz]

I see Survivor Man, Les Stroud, on TV eating them all the time. He says some of them are actually pretty tasty. Of course, he eats them out of necessity and they probably are better tasting in his TV situations than they would be under normal circumstances.

I'll pass on the insects for now.

[fingal]

The only time I've ever eaten insects regularly was when I was a cyclist. During the Summer - if I opened my mouth while riding - I swallowed quite a few. Raw. Apparently I suffered few ill effectzzZZzzz...

[oz]

The only time I've ever eaten insects regularly was when I was a cyclist. During the Summer - if I opened my mouth while riding - I swallowed quite a few. Raw. Apparently I suffered few ill effectzzZZzzz...

Yeah, I used to ride a motorcycle quite a bit and remember feeling small insects spattering on my teeth at times. Guess I should have rode my bike and kept my mouth shut.