UN calls for insects to be commercially grown as food.

[warrior queen]

What say you? Could you eat a caterpillar burger or a wasp sausage?

http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/13/breed-insects-improve-human-food-security-un

 

[JohnnySavage]

The 17-year cicadas are due out in a few weeks and everyone around here is excited about snacking on them.

 

[Ten_over_10]

What say you? Could you eat a caterpillar burger or a wasp sausage?

http://m.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/13/breed-insects-improve-human-food-security-un

Hm, well, I can eat an octopus in a Chinese Restaurant. So, I think if they were made appetizing enough and tasted alright, I could.

 

[warrior queen]

Hm, well, I can eat an octopus in a Chinese Restaurant. So, I think if they were made appetizing enough and tasted alright, I could.

Octopus, I can do.
Tried deep-fried crickets in Asia a few years ago.... they were very dry and hard to swallow although the taste was ok.

 

[gardenia19]

I would rather not eat bugs.

 

[warrior queen]

I would rather not eat bugs.

How about 'fly-fed pork'?
Using insects to supplement feed stock?

 

[gardenia19]

How about 'fly-fed pork'?
Using insects to supplement feed stock?

I don't particularly care.

 

[doctor_insanus]

I'd probably go vegan first. To be honest, though, those choices are probably healthier than the meat we eat anyway.

 

[pointless]

i won't eat insects, but i love shrimp and crab legs are fucking good and those are basically just bugs that live underwater. it's all just cultural nonsense, yo. i mean, muslims think bacon is disgusting.

 

[mercury14]

June bugs fried up with salt and a little cayenne pepper might be good though.

 

[CandiCame]

Do you eat shrimp? Lobster?

People are weird. Of course I'd eat bugs if they tasted good and were farmed organically. So those bugs I probably wouldn't eat. I've eaten those bugs that are deep fried and covered in chocolate. They taste like grease and chocolate. Which is good.

 

[Sean]

Largest source of protein on the planet.

 

[warrior queen]

Do you eat shrimp? Lobster?

People are weird. Of course I'd eat bugs if they tasted good and were farmed organically. So those bugs I probably wouldn't eat. I've eaten those bugs that are deep fried and covered in chocolate. They taste like grease and chocolate. Which is good.

I have a food rule - I will try anythimg three times. If I still don't like it after the third attempt, then I won't eat it again.
So I would probably try insect protein.

Disclaimer: I tried mutton-bird twice and simply cannot bring myself to go a third time. Those things are just nasty.

 

[CandiCame]

I have a food rule - I will try anythimg three times. If I still don't like it after the third attempt, then I won't eat it again.
So I would probably try insect protein.

Disclaimer: I tried mutton-bird twice and simply cannot bring myself to go a third time. Those things are just nasty.

If I don't like something the first time I won't eat it again. I don't eat enough to eat shit I don't like.

I still don't know how anybody can eat shrimp and go "eew bugs" though. That's really weird. Because shrimp are bugs.

 

[warrior queen]

If I don't like something the first time I won't eat it again. I don't eat enough to eat shit I don't like.

I still don't know how anybody can eat shrimp and go "eew bugs" though. That's really weird. Because shrimp are bugs.

I feed the trout in the top dam with excess worms from my Earl-farm (all my worms are named 'Earl') and then eat the trout.... essentially the same thing as eating fly-fed pork *shrugs*
And chickens eat bugs too.
But the thought of ground-up caterpillar burgers makes me gag just a little.

 

[CandiCame]

I feed the trout in the top dam with excess worms from my Earl-farm (all my worms are named 'Earl') and then eat the trout.... essentially the same thing as eating fly-fed pork *shrugs*
And chickens eat bugs too.
But the thought of ground-up caterpillar burgers makes me gag just a little.

I couldn't eat caterpillars, specifically. Because of a personal problem.

 

[gagginforit]

Why not? Presumably they'd precess them into something more palatable.

 

[ivantheterrible]

done it. can do it again.
grasshoppers are good. cook them first because they can carry a disease. pull the back legs off because they are prickly and hard to get down.
worms are ok.
ants after being in a hummingbird feeder are ok, but takes too many to get any taste.

 

[KingOrfeo]

No, Mr. Health & Safety Inspector! These cockroaches aren't a violation, they're a . . . a ranch!

 

[KingOrfeo]

BTW, how are bugs, well, slaughtered? Or are they cooked alive like lobsters?

 

[LadyVer]

June bugs fried up with salt and a little cayenne pepper might be good though.

Don't think I could eat June bugs. They were kind of like pets when I was a kid, plus I think ddt has about eradicated them in my area, I also know what it feels like to step on them and see their guts.

 

[bronzeage]

How about 'fly-fed pork'?
Using insects to supplement feed stock?

You have already eaten plenty of bugs and don't seem any worse for it. Wait until you are really hungry before saying what you won't eat.

 

[MatthewVett]

I've had crickets before, baked into a cookie, and it was quite good. Couldn't tell that a thing was different, which may say more for my cooking than anything, but there you have it. Insects have an excellent Feed Conversion Ratio, after all. Besides, even if you mind it, if you raised your kids with it, they wouldn't have the slightest objection. Custom is king of all, as they say.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

My dad invented a grasshopper harvester that went on the front of his tractor. He would drive it through the hay field and fill it up.