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Bugs Are Safe for Humans to Eat, Says EU

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
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It's not at all gross. I've been practicing entomophagy ever since a local entrepreneur started up a business for it. On top of being an excellent source of protein, the sustainability for insects as food knocks most other sources of protein out of the park. If you ate a cookie with cricket flour, you wouldn't even notice unless someone told you.
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
It's not at all gross. I've been practicing entomophagy ever since a local entrepreneur started up a business for it. On top of being an excellent source of protein, the sustainability for insects as food knocks most other sources of protein out of the park. If you ate a cookie with cricket flour, you wouldn't even notice unless someone told you.

hmmm... Wouldn't even notice, you say. In that case, I guess it might not be that bad.
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
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hmmm... Wouldn't even notice, you say. In that case, I guess it might not be that bad.

It really isn't. Just like any food, it's about how it is prepared and the nature of it depends on those techniques. Eating corn on the cob isn't the same as eating corn ground into powder and made into a chip, and that's not the same as eating creamed corn. Insects work the same way - some folks might like some prep methods but not others. I haven't really gotten into the powder as I think roasted crickets with good seasonings are excellent on their own. The main market barriers to entomophagy right now are first and foremost cultural bias against it and secondarily the lack of large scale markets and production... so if you get the stuff it is kind of on the pricey side.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
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Seriously though. Have you ever slaughtered an animal? Eating bugs is a lot less gross. The preparation hides all the details. I'd eat mealworms if prepared to my liking.
 

Valjean

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"Gross" is in the eye of the beholder. It's learned.
We're grossed out by some of the everyday foods of other cultures. They'd be grossed out by some of the foods we eat.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
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Bugs Are Safe for Humans to Eat, Says EU
Insects are inching their way to becoming a menu item on European dining tables after the bloc’s food safety regulator approved mealworms as safe for human consumption.

Wednesday’s announcement means the grubs—actually beetle larvae—could soon be ground down and used as a protein-rich flour to make pasta and bread, or consumed whole in stir-frys and other recipes. The next steps involve getting marketing and labeling approvals


Does anyone else see this as kind of...Gross? ...To eat pasta or bread made of ground-up bugs?
Flour is flour.
But is bug flour kosher?
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
Haha, my wife is so paranoid of spiders, that when we go camping, at night, she walks with her arms swinging forward to feel for webs, in case she walks into one. If only she knew all along we could have eaten them, we could have had snacks.
I don't know why, but I dont like spiders. Snakes are cool. Reptiles I find interesting. Mice and other critters of other shapes and sizes like that are cute.
But I hate spiders. Whatever the word is for prejudiced against spiders, I am that.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I used to have a co worker that brought chocolate covered grasshoppers in all the time.
When I was an adolescent someone had some chocolate covered ants. None of us would eat it on a dare.

But going down the food chain is valuable to increase the food supply.

And as noted, people who grow up eating something have no issues with it outside of course for those who become vegan or vegetarian.
 

Stevicus

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Bugs Are Safe for Humans to Eat, Says EU
Insects are inching their way to becoming a menu item on European dining tables after the bloc’s food safety regulator approved mealworms as safe for human consumption.

Wednesday’s announcement means the grubs—actually beetle larvae—could soon be ground down and used as a protein-rich flour to make pasta and bread, or consumed whole in stir-frys and other recipes. The next steps involve getting marketing and labeling approvals


Does anyone else see this as kind of...Gross? ...To eat pasta or bread made of ground-up bugs?

I guess you could go to a restaurant and order fly soup, and then ask the waiter "What's this ant doing in my fly soup?"

I recall hearing that "cockroach cluster" is a rather nice treat.

Imagine going over to someone's place for dinner, and they serve you this:

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Would you eat it, politely excuse yourself and leave, or run out screaming for your life?
 

JustGeorge

Not As Much Fun As I Look
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I guess you could go to a restaurant and order fly soup, and then ask the waiter "What's this ant doing in my fly soup?"

I recall hearing that "cockroach cluster" is a rather nice treat.

Imagine going over to someone's place for dinner, and they serve you this:

startrekthenextgenerationconspiracy.0302.jpg


Would you eat it, politely excuse yourself and leave, or run out screaming for your life?

"I'm sorry, I must have forgot to tell you I'm a vegetarian."
 
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