Would you eat a burger made from INSECTS? Mealworm-based food line set to hit grocery stores in...

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[fwdude]

The “greatest man born of woman” had no problem eating insects (locusts.) I think that’s a pretty solid precedent.

[fwdude]

Cockroaches and fly larva (maggots) are already considered human food in many parts of the world.

[tbw2]

The groups turning insects into flour and just making it one more ingredient in meal bars have the more palatable approach. Less “ick”, and no odd taste or body parts, either.

[tbw2]

I remember when vegans freaked out on finding out their lattes were colored with dead bugs.

[gdani]

OK = cows, pigs, chicken, deer, goat, birds, fish, fish eggs, lobster, crab, shrimp, alligator, snails, bison, ostrich, etc.

How about insects? No, what are you, some weirdo?

People are strange.

[Pravious]

Of course the Algores and Zuckerbergs of the world will stop eating beef, pork, or chicken and switch to insects only.
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Are you suggesting they’d actually eat their own? :-O!

;-)

[ETL]

"roasted grasshopper (crunchy)"

"The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama's best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, the president recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.

"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy)," the president wrote. "Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths.

He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.""

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/obama-ate-dog-meat-as-a-boy.html

[BitWielder1]

Umm, PETA fans, you have to kill thousands of insects to make one meal as opposed to killing one cow to make a thousand meals.
Insects too need food to grow to harvest size. Where are the savings?

[Pravious]

The groups turning insects into flour and just making it one more ingredient in meal bars have the more palatable approach. Less “ick”, and no odd taste or body parts, either.
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Yeah. I keep having this nightmarish image of plucking a stray leg or two out from between my teeth.

Shudder.

[TexasGator]

No.

[TexasGator]

The mealworm is one stage of the insect.

[luvbach1]

I would eat a cockroach raw for $1,000,000 and, not a penny less.

[BuffaloJack]

>> I remember when vegans freaked out on finding out their lattes were colored with dead bugs.

When my wife’s Buddhist temple found out about the red food color being made from insects, about 15 years ago, they stopped using any red colored foods. Now they limit their color choices to yellow, blue and green.

[Labyrinthos]

Never had meal worms, but crickets (sauteed, fried) are outstanding.

[Disambiguator]

Only if they’re free-range and gluten free.

I'm a contrarian, so I prefer free-gluten and range free.

[a fool in paradise]

Most people would be shocked at the types of foreign matter in their govt.

[Disambiguator]

Yeah. I keep having this nightmarish image of plucking a stray leg or two out from between my teeth.

[a fool in paradise]

Does a worm have a face?

[yldstrk]

no never

[neefer]

I feed dried mealworms to the chickens as a treat to lure them into the coop during the day. Knowing my neighbor would freak out, I ate some. They weren’t bad, a little like pork rind.