Are insects the answer to global malnutrition?

Yahoo ^ | 4/21/11 | Amelie Bottollier-Depois - AFP

[NormsRevenge]

It's all in your head.

Crunchy Burgers Drive-thrus!

[NormsRevenge]

Plates of fried insects ready to eat, including crikets and grasshopers, are seen here at a local market in Vientiane. Raising crikets for foods is seen as a solution to the malnutrition in the poor landlock country where a great number of people, especially children, suffer from it. (AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)

[RightOnline]

“Let them eat.......weevils!”

Naw.....doesn’t work for me.

[Bitsy]

Corn could help - oh, but wait, we are putting that in our gas tanks.

[NormsRevenge]

ever tried ‘em deep-fried with a spicy sauce dip.. umm mm mmm

[OldNewYork]

Here’s an idea: feed the insects to chickens, who naturally eat them, and eat chicken.

[discostu]

If you’re not producing enough food for the people you’re also probably not producing enough food to provide enough bugs to be food for the people.

[jwalsh07]

When the mood strikes I “gross out” my grandkids by munching on bugs when we are swimming. For the record they don’t taste like chicken.

[hinckley buzzard]

Wonderful--Eat bugs or die. I don't think so.

[blueunicorn6]

Just wouldn’t be thanksgiving in Laos without the family gathered ‘round the table and pa carving up a big old dung beetle. Save room for the roach pie!

[Venturer]

Nothing like people placing themselves in competition with Bats, Birds, and ,anteaters.

[jessduntno]

“Corn could help - oh, but wait, we are putting that in our gas tanks.”

Instead of “filling up” when you use corn are you “stalking up?” Seriously, though, why is it the dumbbells in the US legislature (by any estimate, the most corrupt bastards anywhere on the planet) would come up with the notion of using the most useful ag product on the planet to make gas out of, when you got a whole lot of ground full of dead dinosaur goo?

This is NOT coincidence. We will soon be completely at the Gubmint’s mercy ... and they got none. TEA Party or Die.

[nhwingut]

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Yum Yum! Eat up!

[The Sons of Liberty]

A roachburger and fries, please.

[null and void]

Fried meal worms are pretty good.

[GeronL]

Let them eat bugs!!

I am sure the poor will be thankful

[tiki]

I like your idea. In the summer we put a light out for the chickens and they feast on them.

[tiki]

That just made up my mind for sure...no thank you.

[null and void]

Thailand???