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12 Edible Bugs That Could Help You Survive
Backpacker ^ | 6/27/18 | Matt Louv

Posted on 07/30/2022 7:59:22 AM PDT by DallasBiff

In many parts of the world, entomophagy, or eating bugs is commonplace. Insects are actually the most abundant protein source on the planet, and many of them boast dense concentrations of nutrients like omega 3s. If two billion people can invite insects to the dinner table, it shouldn't be too much of a stretch for you to include edible bugs in your emergency-survival diet

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Conspiracy; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: agriculture; bobbarker; bugeating; bugs; dietandcuisine; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; food; gardening; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; letthemeatbugs; truthorconsequences
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To: Jonty30

Hmm...


41 posted on 07/30/2022 8:41:38 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Drew68

“But all other flying insects that have four legs ...”

Insects have six legs.


42 posted on 07/30/2022 8:46:07 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

Most flies they got three legs
But mine got one


43 posted on 07/30/2022 8:47:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts; TexasGator
I don't know of any insects that walk on 4 legs. I think six is the number that qualifies an insect as...well...an insect.

All the translations speak of insects with four legs.

Maybe the Bible considers the most forward legs to be arms? I dunno.

44 posted on 07/30/2022 8:50:33 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Noumenon

“This is the same woke stupid ass publication that rails against backpacking with knives, “

——————WRONG——————

How To Survive Anything in the Woods With Only a Knife
Where there’s a blade, there’s a way.


45 posted on 07/30/2022 8:52:22 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s new in that the WEF and green freaks want to force citizens to eat bugs instead of meat.


46 posted on 07/30/2022 8:54:46 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: DallasBiff

47 posted on 07/30/2022 8:56:35 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: AndyJackson

> Question - will the masses of guards who will be allowed guns to keep the rest of us under control eat meat or bugs? <

Interesting question. It might make for a good novel. The leadership could be in a bit of a pickle there. Treat your guards too well and they get a sense of superiority. Then they might decide to take power themselves. That happened to quite a few Roman emperors.

But treat them too poorly and they might melt away when trouble comes. That happened to Tsar Nicholas II.


48 posted on 07/30/2022 9:07:24 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Jonty30
That’s how you get Chinese food.

Everything with four legs except the table.

49 posted on 07/30/2022 9:07:30 AM PDT by null and void (No world is so large that it can't fit within the pages of a book)
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To: waterhill

QT’s? Quantum Teleportation?


50 posted on 07/30/2022 9:10:53 AM PDT by null and void (No world is so large that it can't fit within the pages of a book)
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To: DallasBiff

I’m not eating effing bugs.

No matter how much they push for it, its not going to happen. Beef. Its what’s for dinner.


51 posted on 07/30/2022 9:16:09 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: TexasGator

https://www.backpacker.com/skills/going-camping-leave-the-hatchet-at-home/


52 posted on 07/30/2022 9:32:34 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Drew68

“All fours” is an ancient idiom for “all legs on the ground”. As opposed to, for example, a Praying mantis.


53 posted on 07/30/2022 9:34:59 AM PDT by fluffy
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To: Drew68

Well, I guess I’m good, then. I unknowingly ate cricket legs (a delicacy!) in salad at a wedding feast in Cambodia. It was getting dark and I could not see them.

But I never sampled “Cambodian popcorn” — kids would run around catching those giant flying cockroaches, tear the legs off them, and when the pile of legless bugs got large enough, granny would fry them up for the kiddies.

Nor did I try the famous fried “bird spider” tarantulas in Skuon:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TCZag9YjOz4

In neighboring Thailand, you can get scorpion-on-a-stick:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8LcSGuC5s

I used to smash a bunch of those black devils early every morning with my trusty broom. Gee, what was I thinking? I coulda had a free breakfast!

Eww. Looks like they left the legs on the giant cockroaches. How nasty. By the way, those things eat their dead. Yep. Cannibals. You smash one and more come out and together carry away the body — looks so weird, like cockroach pallbearers. They make big poops, for a bug, too, and stinky :(


54 posted on 07/30/2022 9:35:53 AM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Restless

Eating bugs has become an important gourmet issue. How lucky we are to have bug consumption experts in our midst to guide the American public for longer life.. Can’t wait to find a fat cockroach to BBQ. Thanks to the Dems, things are going to get better in bug consumption. Can’t wait to see a vid of demented Joe sit down to a White House press corps gourmet bug meal.


55 posted on 07/30/2022 9:40:07 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: DallasBiff

I’ve eaten lots of bugs of various kinds in survival training and on survival exercises. But, to choose to eat them as part of my daily diet just because some rich guy or government official tells me to or because of “climate change”, um no.


56 posted on 07/30/2022 9:40:27 AM PDT by Have Ruck - Will Travel (It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion...)
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To: Noumenon

Well, I don’t bother to carry a hatchet when I go backpacking. Too much weight and not that useful. A folding saw, though, that’s as necessary as a good knife (or two).

Anywhere that’s so overrun with other people that the area’s being destroyed isn’t somewhere I’d be going anyway.


57 posted on 07/30/2022 9:45:15 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: DallasBiff

While we peons are virtually starving and waiting in line for our government ration of bugs, the elites will be dining on wagu beef.


58 posted on 07/30/2022 9:46:13 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Drew68

I think the ingredient in some foods called Carmine is actually ground up beetles.


59 posted on 07/30/2022 9:46:49 AM PDT by hdbc (y)
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To: DallasBiff
I suggest eating liberals before bugs. They like the hippy slogan, “eat the rich” but that really narrows down the supply. Eat the liberals, I say.
60 posted on 07/30/2022 9:47:26 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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