Baby Eats Bugs: Mom Whose Daughter Consumes Crickets Insists They're Healthy and 'Cheaper' Than Meat

Fox News ^ | 4/27 | Deirdre Reilly

[Nifster]

Ah but lobster tasted great. So do some crabs

[nickcarraway]

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[hattend]

Eat what you want, don’t force your tastes on me.

[9YearLurker]

Don’t think I’ve ever smelled a cricket.

Is that dead, alive—or both?

[TangoLimaSierra]

...my 18-month-old couldn't tell the difference.

Now that's a great recommendation.

An 18 month-old would never put anything nasty in its mouth. I'm sold.

[BitWielder1]

Another Climate Cultist who will completely screw up her kids.

[enumerated]

My cousin and I caught one when we were about 6 years old, and we were fighting over who got to hold it, and we accidentally tore it in half.

To this day, 65 years later, I still remember the smell, and the gross ‘yellow matter custard’ inside.

[9YearLurker]

Yuck!

[No name given]

Well, you know what they say about chicks named Tiffany.

[No name given]

Another cray cray Canuck, in the same league as Jim Carrey and Neil Young.

[Boogieman]

Maybe roaches taste great too if you cook them right and slather them in melted butter...

[dfwgator]

Well at least her immune system should be well-developed.

[Zhang Fei]

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

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Most places, my impression is that it’s a push, on a per pound basis, when you’re talking a whole bird. But as parts go, leg quarters are definitely cheaper than turkey drumsticks, thighs or wings. The difference, I’m told, has to do with chicken paws, which are exported to the Orient, where they’re sold at a premium. In essence, what was once trash is now subsidizing our consumption of leg quarters. Which is why leg quarters here are cheaper than crickets in Thailand. Crickets here probably cost as much as shrimp. I expect that if people are gonna shell out shrimp prices, they’ll choose shrimp over crickets, with the exception of the climate change true believers.

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https://reeis.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1010096-reducing-cost-improving-efficiency-and-productivity-of-farming-crickets-as-food-ingredients.html
[However, farming insects such as crickets has not had the benefit of advanced farming practices, technology and innovations that other animal derived commodities have had over the past 150+ years. Insect farming has remained entirely manual, much smaller scale and largely unchanged for at least 60+ years. Due largely to lack of mechanization and innovation, these inefficiencies result in high costs and unreliable supply. Frozen crickets cost $4-$10 per pound. Compared to other protein sources, this is high. Cricket powder is at $24 per pound. Cricket powder requires 4 pounds of crickets to produce 1 pound of powder). Thus, any cost reductions in cricket production will result in a 4 fold corresponding reduction in the cost of dried products/ingredients made from them. In order to become competitive in the market, frozen cricket prices must drop to $1 per pound. ]

[Deplorable American1776]

I heard this in a TV show that guest starred Terry Bradshaw?

Terry said (when served sushi) said, 'Im not going to eat something that I use for bait.'

[V_TWIN]

Yep thats me.

When we go to a asian restaurant I always get fried rice or hibachi......fish needs heat on it as far as I’m concerned.

[butlerweave]

She has no Pharyngeal reflex

[M Kehoe]

petrolatum?

Sheesh.

5.56mm

[353FMG]

Better eat your fill now because soon enough meat will be on the ‘verboten’ list of things to eat.

[bgill]

Train derailments. Chicken flu. Factories exploding. But absolutely nothing is taking down the bug farms. Why is that, huh?

[Nifster]

Julia always said “butter makes everything better”