Eating insects and bugs? Oh gosh, another wave of brainlessness is arriving.
Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
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#42If access to meat is the problem, why not just go vegan?
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can eat potatoes raw too. The human digestive system evolved in the Paleolithic to easily digest starchy roots like the potato. Besides meat, starchy roots were a favorite. Wheat btw is a Neolithic phenomenon. And there is some proof that grains are toxic and that some of those toxins aren’t annihilated with cooking. Grains being toxic is an evolutionary trait meant to discourage mammals and insects from eating t…
Somehow i don't think a restaurant selling raw potatoes will suceed much though :)
I meant that you can eat potatoes raw and it won’t make you sick and it won’t give you nausea.
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#44No idea why people don't eat more but I like eating deep fried insects e.g. rice grasshopper, silkworm etc. the taste is just as awesome as mainstream the deep fried chicken or french fried sort of things that we have been eating since we was child :) also, where I live they even sell insects as snack packaged food (Exactly like potato chips packaging) in supermarket and minimart these days. I don't mean I eat them as my primary source of protein but rather just eating it as a snack during watching movie at home instead of popcorn.
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#45Fried spiced bugs are tasty. Raw bugs not so much. I liked fried scorpio. Raw cricket, taste like crap. I guess if you take grass, deep fry it and put cummin on it, it tastes ok too. You can eat a cucumber, a carrot, an apple or a steak raw. Even things you need to cook, such as wheet or potatoes, taste alrigh by just being boiled in water.
> Fried spiced bugs are tasty. Raw bugs not so much. I liked fried scorpio. Raw cricket, taste like crap.
Depends on the bug. Different bugs have different flavors. It depends on their diet, too, like many animals. There are lots of ways to prepare them. Some of them are bland, others are very flavorful. I don’t see how this is any different from other foods. As a category, bugs are flavorful and interesting, but again, it depends on the bug and its diet.
> I guess if you take grass, deep fry it and put cummin on it, it tastes ok too.
No. You’re just tasting the fry oil and the spices.
> Even things you need to cook, such as wheet or potatoes, taste alrigh by just being boiled in water.
I think bugs taste better than potatoes or wheat boiled in water.
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#46It’s not so strange to eat bugs. Aren’t crustaceans, particularly crawfish and the like, the bugs of the sea? They certainly look and behave like insects, scavenging the ocean floor.
How many crustaceans can you think of that have wings and fly? How many bugs do you know that live in the ocean? I'd say they're fairly different, unless you want to also support the claim that we should all eat whale, since they're related to deer.
we should all eat whale, since they're related to deer.
The main reason we don't eat whale is that they're going extinct in the wild and are impossible to farm (neither which are true about insects). Before we realized that large scale whaling was a bad idea we ate a lot more whale.
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#47so you're the weird kid that eats bugs
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#48let the chickens eat the bugs you weirdos. next you're going to recommend drinking human milk.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, insect are hard to find in the winter, and much harder to raise at a reasonable quantity than cows and chickens. And if your 1000 sheeps escape in the wild, you have a chance to get some back, and you will be able to protect you fields against them. It's practical. Plusyou don't have to care about venom when cookinh lamb.
> and much harder to raise at a reasonable quantity than cows and chickens. Doubt that. Livestock eats up much more energy than its meat gives back (i.e. you would have to feed 7kg of soy protein to get 1kg of meat protein). With insects such as Mealworms that's much easier. They basically eat anything and they turn it almost 1:1 into valuable protein. Also you can raise them pretty much everywhere, even in crammed i…
> With insects such as Mealworms that's much easier. They basically eat anything and they turn it almost 1:1 into valuable protein.
I looked up the feed conversion ratio for mealworms, I found values around 5:1. This is comparable to beef. Chickens are much better, somewhere around 1.5:1. Some other insects are better or worse in terms of FCR.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, insect are hard to find in the winter, and much harder to raise at a reasonable quantity than cows and chickens. And if your 1000 sheeps escape in the wild, you have a chance to get some back, and you will be able to protect you fields against them. It's practical. Plusyou don't have to care about venom when cookinh lamb.
> and much harder to raise at a reasonable quantity than cows and chickens. Doubt that. Livestock eats up much more energy than its meat gives back (i.e. you would have to feed 7kg of soy protein to get 1kg of meat protein). With insects such as Mealworms that's much easier. They basically eat anything and they turn it almost 1:1 into valuable protein. Also you can raise them pretty much everywhere, even in crammed i…
The ratio is more like 5:1, beside, once you fried them, there is not much of it left because they are so small. But nobody wants to eat them raw.