Insect diet may be the solution for a hungry world

France 24 ^ | 8/17/2011

[glorgau]

This was the topic I chose for the persuasive speech in my college speech class. ;-)

[SpaceBar]

The UN probably discusses this over steak and lobster.

[Moonman62]

The UN probably discusses this over steak and lobster.

Lobster is my kind of arthropod.

[berdie]

If true, I can live the rest of my life on the grasshoppers devouring what is left of my drought plagued yard.

[South40]

If true, I can live the rest of my life on the grasshoppers devouring what is left of my drought plagued yard.

lol! Boy can I relate o that statement.

[metesky]

I think I read this in Reader’s Digest back in ‘55.

[americanophile]

No.

[Olog-hai]

. . . which Biblical figure ate locusts and wild honey?

[Jonty30]

The only insects I would be willing to try are the ones that eat plant material.

I would not touch anything else.

[jonrick46]

Andrew Zimmern, where are you?

[Vendome]

I ate bugs in Chiapas.

Lil Bastuhds didn... say nuthin....

tasted like lemon..

Probably cuz they wuz soaked in Limon.

But, nothing happened, except I wuz full....

[I see my hands]

Sure, let's wear tree bark shoes and toss our waste in the streets. If only we could be like the savages then maybe whites might be salvageable. I'm going to worship the moon starting tomorrow. Human sacrifice, anyone?

[Oiao]

Ending the needless use of corn for fuel would transform the equation.

We could feed the world (US and Canada production) if the EPA and big Gov just got the hell out of the pockets of .... or just out of the way.

[count-your-change]

John the Baptist.

[Monterrosa-24]

Modern farms produce surpluses in most commodities. It is not a “hungry world” except where the market infrastructure breaks down.

[rawcatslyentist]

Crawfish/Mudbugs.... Not crustaceans. Insects.

[calex59]

My thoughts exactly, government needs to end useless regulation of farms, such as the dolts in CA who shut off the water supply to save a frickin’ smelt that isn’t even native to the waters.

[Strk321]

They say ants taste like chicken. My sister ate one when she was 8 years old, and she can testify that this is indeed true.

Off the record, there are very few inedible animals. Those that are are mainly too hard/bony/lacking enough flesh or else poisonous.

[Strk321]

I dunno; but the locust was the only clean insect in the Mosaic Law. Why? Because it’s an important source of protein for Bedouin nomads.