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Bugs You Can Eat
WebMd ^ | 8/26/23 | Medically Reviewed by Jabeen Begum, MD on August 26, 2023 Written by Jon Cooper

Posted on 04/14/2024 8:14:48 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Open Your Mind, and Your Mouth

You might think of eating insects as something kids do on a dare. But some of these little animals are popular around the world for their nutritional value -- and they’re starting to catch on in the U.S. Not long ago, sushi and lobster didn’t seem all that appetizing to Americans, so it’s not as far-fetched as it sounds.

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To: DallasBiff

I should point out that eating insects has been “the next big thing” for over forty years, and will continue to be the “next big thing” for the next forty because eating bugs is a niche concept that most people want nothing to do with.


41 posted on 04/15/2024 3:40:27 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: DallasBiff

Actually, that looks like liberal food to me...


42 posted on 04/15/2024 3:44:21 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: dangus

well, to be fair - lobsters and crabs ARE related to some types of bugs.


43 posted on 04/15/2024 3:54:10 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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To: DallasBiff

Look at the countries which eat bugs and ask, do we really want to emulate them?


44 posted on 04/15/2024 3:57:42 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: fwdude

If Alpo made a dog food from bugs, I can guarantee you no one would buy it for their dog.


45 posted on 04/15/2024 4:18:21 AM PDT by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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To: Cronos

Actually, although I have joked about that, they are far more distantly related to bugs than you are related to fish. Yet, their muscle protein, the flesh, is vaguely similar to the flesh of fish or birds. And let’s face it, you only eat the tail of a shrimp; with a crab or lobster, you also eat the pincers and maybe the legs. All basically muscle flesh.

These bugs are too small for that; you’re basically eating the carapace, bowels and all. Yeah, I know some people eat that shit-filled tube down the length of the shrimp’s tail. Not me. And when I step on a caterpillar or bug, the gooey mess is nothing at all like what it would be like if I stepped on a shrimp tail.

I suspect that’s because most of these “bugs you can eat” are larvae, building up stores of food for their pupation stage.


46 posted on 04/15/2024 4:30:52 AM PDT by dangus
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To: nwrep

Eat all the bugs you want, I’ll stick with meat, potatoes and salads.


47 posted on 04/15/2024 5:45:15 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: DallasBiff

BARF!


48 posted on 04/15/2024 5:47:01 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: dangus

Because 10-11% of the climate change carbon issue is agriculture. Since it is the easiest to manipulate to affect on the climate change issue they are pushing alternative protein sources that do not affect the carbon cycle. So less meat and dairy (read none) and industrial fertilizer intensive crops, and little people eating bugs and organic (lower fertilizer) crops to save the planet.


49 posted on 04/15/2024 5:49:58 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: DallasBiff

I might start believing all this when the White House serves insects as the main course at state dinners served to foreign dignitaries.

“And here, President Macron, we have our finest dish: Soup a la Cicada. For dessert, it will be Maggot Mousse. Bon appetite!”


50 posted on 04/15/2024 5:51:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: DallasBiff
Jabeen Begum Begolly MD wants you to eat bugs! Go for it! They're FREE! Life is a free "All You Can Eat" buffet! I love this country!
51 posted on 04/15/2024 5:56:48 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gun show sales aren't the problem, public school zombie walkers are the problem.)
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To: KC_Conspirator
They are pushing eating bugs, living in pods, fat acceptance, slut acceptance, anti fitness, anti dieting, and a whole bunch of other things to make you weak, stupid, and easy controlled. And they call themselves “progressives”….
52 posted on 04/15/2024 6:07:02 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: rllngrk33

He says it in that damn Nazi accent, wearing that idiotic uniform he likes to appear in, making him look like an alien.


53 posted on 04/15/2024 6:09:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: DallasBiff
Bugs also need to eat and defecate so what is really gained compared to other livestock?

54 posted on 04/15/2024 6:22:23 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: DallasBiff

Illegals will eat grasshoppers they like them


55 posted on 04/15/2024 6:24:24 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: DallasBiff

Chapulines


56 posted on 04/15/2024 6:26:02 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Yardstick

Lobster became popular in the late 1800’s, so I guess it depends on what “not long ago” means.


I recall reading somewhere that, in the colonies, feeding prisoners lobster was considered cruel and unusual.


57 posted on 04/15/2024 6:29:29 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: GenXPolymath

I am an accomplished world traveler and have eaten virtually every form of protein that won’t kill a human and some that can if not prepared right. I am not scared to push boundaries it’s part of what makes life an adventure.


Including “Long-Pig?”


58 posted on 04/15/2024 6:32:17 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

No thanks...


59 posted on 04/15/2024 7:28:44 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Clutch Martin

The Bible says that John the Baptist ate ‘locusts and wild honey’; but I’ve seen one interpretation indicating that the locusts were the pod of the carob tree, which is actually a legume...


60 posted on 04/15/2024 11:54:15 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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