We should eat insects

[scorptatious]

This thread brings this song to mind.


OT: I probably couldn't bring myself to eat bugs myself. At least not raw. If cooked however...

Hmm...

>_>

FK NO. This thread made me sick cause I went a little further and did some googling and found that. Sorry. I think I rather drink piss.

Slimy, yet satisfying.

 

[BaronUberstein]

If you could make it taste and look like a steak, sure.

 

[R0cklobster]

Well, for one thing, almost all the bugs i've tried haven't been super nice, but even then if you were just used to it it wouldn't be a problem. Even if it is a good idea, i'd be surprised if it ever caught on culturally.

 

[Hexenwolf]

Is a bag of roasted wood lice tastier than a bag of pistachio nuts?

No?

Then no dice.

What if they DID turn out tastier?

 

[Imperius]

I think we should eat YOU.
Yeah, yeah. How about that?
You're delicious, nutritious and taste just like chicken!

(Plus the population control thingy too.)

Come here!

Om nom nom.

 

[iLazy]

In Thailand they sell bug trail mix.

My mom's Thai, and I asked her about it. She said that she ate grasshopper and other insects. Some of it was good, some of it was bad. It just depends on how you prepare them. Me? I'd give it a try... if the heads were gone.

 

[kortin]

No thanks. I don't even like fish, I highly doubt I would like bugs. Besides, why eat bugs when you have much tastier foods such as chicken, pork, or beef!

I think we should eat YOU.
Yeah, yeah. How about that?
You're delicious, nutritious and taste just like chicken!

(Plus the population control thingy too.)

Come here!

Om nom nom.

Bath salts man, bath salts! D:

 

[VladG]

Om nom.

I'm technically all for it, but I think for my delicate and refined palate they'd have to be processed into some sort of bar or paste form.

Here's the problem. Those who already eat insects know how to cook them and can easily purchase them.

Where I live there is NO tradition of eating insects whatsoever.

I know neither how to cook them to make them palatable (though that's easily overcome with the internet) or WHAT insects to eat and WHERE to get them from.

Importing them would make them very expensive, to the point that I'd rather just eat meat.

So in theory, yeah, eating bugs is great.. but in practice.. not so much.

 

[Imperius]

Bath salts man, bath salts! D:

Oh yeah, sprinkle some of those on, gives the meat a good tangy kick =D

 

[Guffe]

It's not part of Scandinavian culture to eat insects the way you mean to but I do know other people do that. If I'd get the opportunity hell yeah I'd try, I heard it tastes like chicken...

 

[Kroxile]

Yeeeahhh.. how about no? Yeah, gonna go with no.

I'll stick to traditional meats thank you very much, and until the prices on hamburger go through the roof due to rarity, I don't really care if most of the animal is wasted either.

 

[Saulkar]

I struggle as it is to eat vegetables without vomiting from the texture alone.

 

[KefkaCultist]

I'd willfully eat insects (cooked and not alive obviously). I mean, an insect really isn't that much different from shrimp or other similar types of seafood and I love me some seafood.

 

[Gennadios]

When I was in Thailand I subsisted on tarantulas and cockroaches for a week straight.

Not like that... there was a stall outside of my hostel selling them. I can't really say it was any worse a diet than eating purely McDonalds in some of the other places I've been.

 

[Rawne1980]

I have no problem eating insects but the first bugger to put Spider on toast in front of me is getting a beating.

 

[thespyisdead]

i think our culture needs to get over our prejudices in order for this to succeed. besides which, bug farming would leave a smaller ecological footprint, than animal faarming, and bugs would cost less than meat, but again, the prejudices must go

 

[Keoul]

As long as they taste nice...
I mean really they're just small land lobsters right?

 

[Don Savik]

i think our culture needs to get over our prejudices in order for this to succeed. besides which, bug farming would leave a smaller ecological footprint, than animal faarming, and bugs would cost less than meat, but again, the prejudices must go

But it's one thing to convince people that eating bugs isn't disgusting, it's quite another to try and get people to stop eating juicy steaks just because they can get the same amount of protein from, say.... eating a dozen maggots.

I agree. Its not a negative prejudice by any means. What gain does mass breeding insects over mass breeding other farmland animals accomplish? Besides creeping everyone the fuck out, because, lets be honest, bug lovers are in the minority.

A field of cows is more pleasing to everyone then an infestation of maggots if you ask me. Also, its easier to raise them and monitor their health as said before. Also, cows other body parts are used for other products as well. What the hell could we make using an ant? Cows are more product-efficient.

Besides, what sounds more appealing to your brain? A crunchy squirming exoskeleton filled with vile slime, or a char-broiled slab of tender meat? On a very basic level of human instincts, I think everyone would choose the later.

 

[Pegghead]

This brings to mind what my dad was telling me a while ago about how back in his day you used to be able to buy cans of chocolate ants (real ants, covered in chocolate...yeah).

Look, you can go out and eat all the insects you want and I won't stop you, but the thought of chowing down on a couple o' juicy centipedes or some crunchy cockroaches doesn't appeal to me. Even if there were safe, bred-in-un-contaminated-environments insects for sale I still wouldn't do it. And although you say that "80% of the world eats insects", that's mostly because over in those parts of the world (such as regional Asia) it's a free, plentiful source of basic food for communities living off whatever they can grow or get their hands on, and not out of some enlightened desire to chow down on what chows down on garbage.

 

[Robert Ewing]

In all logical, technical and ecological senses, we should definitely eat insects. Those bastards should be cut down and farmed in massive numbers. Will help prevent swarms, cut disease rates as we're making sure they aren't disease ridden before human consumption, and they're in plentiful supply! We need to really start. But... Ew. Not sure I'd be able to have a cricket main course.