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Baby Eats Bugs: Mom Whose Daughter Consumes Crickets Insists They're Healthy and 'Cheaper' Than Meat
Fox News ^ | 4/27 | Deirdre Reilly

Posted on 04/27/2023 12:48:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Michigan pediatrician weighs in, noting benefits but advising caution regarding insects on the menu

One Canadian mom is touting the benefits of consuming bugs. She's even raising her baby on a diet that includes crickets.

"I'm a food writer and will try anything at least once, including eating bugs," freelance writer Tiffany Leigh wrote recently.

"I started adding insects to our meals to cut down our grocery bill," she also wrote for Insider, adding, "Crickets are a cheaper alternative to meat, and my 18-month-old couldn't tell the difference." In emailed comments to Fox News Digital, Leigh said that "surprisingly," it wasn’t hard to "feed my baby crickets."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: qanonmom
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To: nickcarraway

Child abuse from a insane parent................


21 posted on 04/27/2023 1:15:35 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: V_TWIN

Honestly, ain’t much difference between ‘em. That’s why I don’t have much appetite for shellfish myself. They’re just maritime cousins of the cockroaches.


22 posted on 04/27/2023 1:17:16 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: V_TWIN

Not too thrilled about being named ‘Renfield’, either.


23 posted on 04/27/2023 1:17:41 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: ModelBreaker
...they will begin to mandate something even more disgusting.
24 posted on 04/27/2023 1:18:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: V_TWIN

That’s a very pretty baby...


25 posted on 04/27/2023 1:20:11 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Boogieman

Except with crayfish at least you peel off the exoskeleton.......grasshoppers......your eatin’ it.


26 posted on 04/27/2023 1:20:46 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: nickcarraway

Mommy Eats Pills


27 posted on 04/27/2023 1:25:04 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: nickcarraway

no mention of the mother living on bugs


28 posted on 04/27/2023 1:27:27 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: V_TWIN

Just a little extra fiber.


29 posted on 04/27/2023 1:29:08 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Zhang Fei

I thought turkey is cheaper than chicken? What about mutton?


30 posted on 04/27/2023 1:29:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Hattie

Cheaper, definitely.


31 posted on 04/27/2023 1:29:50 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: nickcarraway

When are these IDIOTS who parrot “whatever (non-Western) foreign countries do” going to realize it is not because it’s healthy, but because they are DIRT POOR?

Just like the “family bed” garbage with raising kids. The Chinese and Indonesians do it because they can’t afford separate beds! (Hell, many of our poorest ancestors here in the colonial era did it too!)


32 posted on 04/27/2023 1:31:57 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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To: V_TWIN

Heh, that was what I was thinking. The person with the camera is probably holiding up a cricket.


33 posted on 04/27/2023 1:34:43 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: nickcarraway

Child welfare services needs to pay the mom a serious visit and see what else she’s doing or not doing. And, as others mentioned, more meat for the rest of us.


34 posted on 04/27/2023 1:36:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Go Woke, Go Broke. Every Time Trump Says Something, I'm Closer to Anyone But Trump.)
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To: skeeter

The baby’s name is Renfield?

Willing to bet this child abuser dies not have the child’s father around, as a man would step in to protect his child from this horror.


35 posted on 04/27/2023 1:45:31 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Red Badger

That ism my thought as well.

I notice she doesn’t say she eats them herself. Seems that she only inflicts them on a baby who doesn’t know any better.


36 posted on 04/27/2023 1:46:25 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Deplorable American1776
$239.84/lb for Hot & Spicy Crickets

I don't think even Japanese A5 beef is priced that high.

37 posted on 04/27/2023 1:52:22 PM PDT by SC DOC (A)
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To: ModelBreaker
Here’s the rule. Anytime something starts to work, the totalitarian left will find a reason to rubbish it and force something else on us that is more expensive and does not work very well.

Yes, that's exactly the rule I've observed.

For those of us who work, make a living, buy a home, drive a car, feed the family, go to school events, take vacations, attend church, heat and cool our homes, enjoy our neighbors and neighborhoods -- it all works perfectly well. Everything is in harmony and works because of a few thousand years of civilization building and everybody following the rules, especially the Ten Commandments and the US Constitution.

But leftists hate all that NORMALCY and want to destroy it.

It's weird...when I drive about town doing my business, everything appears to still be normal. The rains still come, the flowers bloom, the lawn has come to life, the sun is shining, people say "hi" to each other.

But when you spend time on the Internet, civilization appears to be collapsing at an accelerated rate all around us.

38 posted on 04/27/2023 2:08:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: rktman

When I was a child, if you bragged about feeding your kid bugs, the state would take the child away from you.


39 posted on 04/27/2023 2:15:09 PM PDT by Iceclimber58
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To: nickcarraway

Looks like an unhappy child

Just feed the baby mud then you don’t have to pay for expensive vitamins


40 posted on 04/27/2023 2:17:55 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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