Let them eat bugs

The Economist ^ | July 15, 2008

[Schnucki]

Keep this in mind the next time you get the urge to kiss an environmentalist. ;)

[underground]

I was thinking about getting some chickens for “bug eating” job. The chicken farts are probably bad for the environment or something.

[Androcles]

Better than Soylent Green...

[Vanders9]

These things are all down to fashion. After all, we eat crustaceans - shrimps and prawns and crabs - so why not insects?

[tlb]

I’ve known of people to eat and enjoy the feet of pigs, the brains of calves, the embryos of chickens, and the eggs of sturgeon. ANY food is icky if you think too much about it.

[autumnraine]

They want to “slip” me some bugs in my food?

Crazy people. Let them eat bugs, I’ll stick with steak.

[autumnraine]

Because I eat the meat inside shrimp or crab. Not the shell and brains and all.

[Coffee200am]

Just the ugly bugs...not the cute furry ones.../s

[raybbr]

For example, a cow yields only 10lb (4.5kg) of beef for every 100lb of feed it eats, whereas the same amount of feed would produce tens times as much cricket.

What a misleading statement. What percentage of a cow is utilized for food and other things like leather as opposed to the amount of digestible content of a cricket.

[CapnJack]

I could just see it now ... “Start your morning off with a nice bowl of Cricket Crunch! Part of your daily balanced diet with 16 Vitamins and minerals! They're GREAAAAAT! (free toy in side specially marked boxes)”

I'm sure someone here who is good with PhotoShop can whip up a good picture of this.

[Vanders9]

all that roughage you are missing out on! :)

[Vanders9]

not to mention sweetmeats :)

What about lettuce? Lettuce is very innocuous.

[seoul62]

Well, My husband on a visit to China, munched on deep fried Scorpion and Locust on a stick. He said the Locust tasted better, like a crunchy potato chip. Me, I will just stick to my Chipped Beef on Toast, which He finds quite odd./Just Asking - seoul62......

[WVKayaker]

...ANY food is icky if you think too much about it.

Who first looked at an oyster and said..."Mmmmmmmmmmm"...

(...at least this one is steamed!)

[Androcles]

I’m with you - I’ll give everything a try..once.

All I ask is that:

A- It be prepared by someone who knows what they’re doing
B- here possible, I learn what it is after I’ve given my honest opinion....

[RangerM]

I thought they were getting this.

[MarkL]

Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a huge push by some in power and the media to not only reduce the standard of living for people in the US, but something somewhat eerily similar to Pol Poht's attempts to "de-urbanize" Cambodia... Returning to "earlier times," and a "simpler way of life."

Of course the people in charge would never be expected to change THEIR lifestyles.

Mark

[MarkL]

ANY food is icky if you think too much about it.

But I want to know who come up with the idea to drink cows milk... On seeing a cow, he must have been thinking, "I'm gonna squeeze me one of those, and drink what ever comes out!" I wonder how many tries taught him to avoid the bulls?

Mark

[Teacher317]

Interesting that The Economist would not discuss the reasons WHY food prices are increasing globally. It wouldn't have anything to do with oil/gas/diesel/transportation costs tripling in the past few years, would it? Nah. Just ignore it, and move on to the cute bug-eating idea. A magazine like The Economist need not worry about such trivialities as global economic issues and how they relate to interesting topics.