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Q&A: Good grub—why you should consider eating bugs
MedicalXpress ^ | 9/5/24 | Jules Bernstein, University of California

Posted on 09/06/2024 10:22:07 AM PDT by DallasBiff

More than 2 billion people regularly eat insects—on purpose. They're a great source of protein for communities around the world and some are considered delicacies reserved for special occasions. And it's entirely possible that eating bugs could become more common in the U.S. too.

To discuss why the practice of eating arthropods, or entomophagy, is gaining in popularity, UCR Magazine called on Erin Wilson-Rankin, a professor in the Department of Entomology. She teaches a course for nonmajors about the history of insects, including who eats them and why.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: bugs; eatbugs
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Let the birds, amphibians, and reptiles eat the bugs.

Instead of defunding the police, defund the universities.

1 posted on 09/06/2024 10:22:07 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Does Jules Bernstein practice any form of rely that may preclude him from eating bugs, shellfish, or pork? If so, he can rightly piss off with his dietary recommendations for other people.


2 posted on 09/06/2024 10:25:23 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: DallasBiff

Sure you try it first. All proponents should be required to eat bugs for all meals, for 5 years straight.

We’ll monitor your health and if you start growing scales.

No cheating now.

Oh and by the way, don’t bugs have feelings too? Don’t they suffer an agonizing death, too?


3 posted on 09/06/2024 10:25:26 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Antihero101607

Religion. Any form of religion.


4 posted on 09/06/2024 10:25:50 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: DallasBiff
Bugs are starvation food even in hunter gatherer socities.

Just reality.

Besides, my chickens eat bugs and only a heartless monster would snatch food from their little beaks.

5 posted on 09/06/2024 10:27:43 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DallasBiff

We already eat arthropods—crustaceans!

But it you’re allergic to crustaceans—lobster, crab, and/or shrimp—you’re probably allergic to insects, too. Don’t eat them!

Meat is better anyway. Ask any Serb—or most Americans!


6 posted on 09/06/2024 10:28:31 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Let the birds, amphibians, and reptiles eat the bugs.

Don't forget liberals!!

The more bugs they eat, the more meat for use real people...

7 posted on 09/06/2024 10:29:30 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: DallasBiff

Ghouls.

Modern day versions of R.M. Renfield.


8 posted on 09/06/2024 10:30:41 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: DallasBiff

Nothing works up my appetite more than a picture of a pile of dead insects. Maybe I’ll go out and sweep the shed to see if I can get some for supper tonight.


9 posted on 09/06/2024 10:33:54 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: DallasBiff

the global warmists want to make meat too expensive for most people

thats why they are pushing the bugs


10 posted on 09/06/2024 10:37:21 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Honorary Serb

My wife is Serbian. I will ask her if she would be willing to make sarma stuffed with bugs.


11 posted on 09/06/2024 10:39:52 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: DallasBiff

Let Bill Gates and the WEF eat the bugs. Why don’t the WEF maniacs eat bugs on live television to prove it really good stuff?

Eff ‘em.


12 posted on 09/06/2024 10:42:23 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Honorary Serb

Going to Serbian Fest this weekend at a church in Portland, OR. Going to honor my dad, who passed away this last January.

No bugs will be on the menu.


13 posted on 09/06/2024 10:43:19 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: DallasBiff

Another benefit is that for people with shell fish allergies, they can die of anaphylactic shock, so less global warming.


14 posted on 09/06/2024 10:44:02 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (You can vote totalitarians in but you can never vote them out...)
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To: DallasBiff

I have a magical method of producing bugs and grass in to meat and eggs.


15 posted on 09/06/2024 10:44:07 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: DallasBiff

16 posted on 09/06/2024 10:46:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Antihero101607

THE AUTHOR SHOULD CONSIDER TURNING HIMSELF IN AT A MENTAL INSTITUTION.


17 posted on 09/06/2024 10:52:50 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: DallasBiff

How about we drop Bernstien out of a Haelecopter instead.


18 posted on 09/06/2024 11:00:20 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: DallasBiff

I vill bot eat ze bugs.


19 posted on 09/06/2024 11:07:58 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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If people eat bugs voluntarily, well fine.
Just don't force me, or make laws for others.

20 posted on 09/06/2024 11:11:59 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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