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Plus once in a while I get some pang of guilt about factory farming. Not gonna happen with cockroaches; I'm pretty sure there is no possible world where I develop sympathy for an insect.
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>For some reason shrimp which are essentially bugs are no problem because (I think) they come from the ocean, so there's an obvious mental line that can dissassociate them from other bugs. Generally, we eat the innards, not the exoskeleton.
I (and many others) eat school prawns shell/head/tail and all. It's common in Greece. Here's an example recipe: http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/recipes/recipe-search/fea... When a prawn tail has been shelled (but tail left on for presentation) and in tempura, I will eat the tail also.
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A lot of what we eat (steaks, chicken nuggetts, hamburger, bacon) is dissasociated with the source form of the meat. This should probably be the inroad. If people get used to the idea that they're ingesting insects anyhow, then maybe the rest gets easier? I dunno..
What is the point of eating insects, though? Why not just eat lentils?
http://www.rainbowmealworms.net/blog/why-we-need-to-eat-bugs...
I used to have some other references that were a bit more scientific, but I can't seem to track those down.
I talked to my kids about eating insects the other day with the expected results in the form of 'ew' and such. We've spent so much time in modern society associating insects with disease it's hard to dissassociate. For some reason shrimp which are essentially bugs are no problem because (I think) they come from the ocean, so there's an obvious mental line that can dissassociate them from other bugs. This is a great i…
> "Maybe processing the grubs/flies into something less recognizable would help, but at some point you read the ingredients and you're back at square one." How many of the ingredients do you currently understand? Just use the latin name of the insect and no-one would notice. Given the yield, I can imagine that we'll be eating a lot of insects in the future and in many parts of the world larvae/insects are not a probl…
Lots of potential naming zaniness here. Pretty sure food scientists and marketers have this down to a...science?
At an earlier point in our evolutionary history we no doubt ate plenty of insects. Grubs, grasshoppers, crickets, ants, termites... pretty much whatever we could get our hands on. This practice was generally discarded by humanity except for niche pockets here and there. Why? I mean... there must be a reason humans (for the most part) stopped eating insects.
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They're cost efficient, not "resource efficient".
how is there a difference? less cost = less capital = less resources.
Anyone doing anything with cricket-based foods in the US is likely supplied by World Ento (which recently merged with Aspire International). They're building a massive cricket farm in ATX to try to keep up with the demand.
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Lobsters are, once you get inside them, just chunks of very uniform "meat" that has very little trace of where it originated. If we could find two-pound spiders, boil them, and serve their cracked-open legs on a plate, people would probably be just fine with eating those.
Calling Phnom Penh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_spider
I talked to my kids about eating insects the other day with the expected results in the form of 'ew' and such. We've spent so much time in modern society associating insects with disease it's hard to dissassociate. For some reason shrimp which are essentially bugs are no problem because (I think) they come from the ocean, so there's an obvious mental line that can dissassociate them from other bugs. This is a great i…