Posted on 07/07/2023 4:39:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The average person accidentally consumes one pound of bugs each year, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
This is because fruits, vegetables, spices and many processed foods are legally permitted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to contain tiny levels of bug parts, which add up over time.
For example, fig paste can contain up to 13 insect heads in 100 grams, canned fruit juices can have a maggot for every 250 milliliters and 10 grams of hops used to make beer can be the home for 2,500 small sap-sucking insects.
And while there is much debate over the number of bugs we consume in our sleep, scientists agree that it is not zero.
Swallowing a bug is not a pleasant experience, but data shows the average person accidentally eats up to one pound of critters each year (stock image)
Swallowing a bug is not a pleasant experience, but data shows the average person accidentally eats up to one pound of critters each year (stock image)
Eating insects may not sound appetizing, but most people consume them daily without realizing it.
The FDA's Food Detects Levels Handbook outlines the amount of insect heads, thoraxes, legs and even whole bugs that are allowed in a specific food.
There can be up to five whole insects in Apple Butter, 500 grams of larva in berries and 10 percent of packaged coffee beans are allowed to be infested with critters.
And after you have eaten 220 pounds of chocolate in your life, you can be sure you also consumed one pound of bugs.
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This story gets run every five or ten years. I remember seeing the same story back in the 1970s.
Maybe they can make a vaccine for it……
Thank you for that. Not really.
In World Economic Forum future, bugs eat you!! /WEF
You want flies with that?
Except far-left turd rollers. They always eat more than their share.
So, when they make beef and chicken illegal for little people, and force us just to eat bugs, I will barely notice the difference because I’m basically already eating bugs? Cool!
Translation: you eat bugs anyway without knowing it. Just make ‘em a regular part of your diet and be happy.
We know about this.
There simply is no way to totally avoid bugs, etc, in food. People need to get over their first-world spoilage (haha) and deal with it.
As my dad used to say, “so what, just more protein”.
Western Maoists are planning for us plebes to be eating nothing *but* flies and maggots....soon.
Two Things.
Thing One. I doubt it.
Thing Two. Remember George Costanza’s frenzy when he swallowed a fly?
If a praying mantis will eat it, why shouldn’t you?
and this is allowed why????
A quick stir and down the hatch - and all that was left in the bottom of the glass was a few stranded dried maggots.
The rest of them? Pure protein in mah belly.
You think they should arrest people that accidentally eat a bug when they are asleep?
Legally eating chocolate all day long...My body is already used to bugs,sooooo.
“Ze bugs? You are already eating zem!”
absolutely...
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