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Farmed insects like silkworm should be safe to eat, I often stir fry them as a snack with beer. Quite tasty!
Are farmed tapeworms safe to eat?
Nematode aren't insect though :)
Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
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Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#52let the chickens eat the bugs you weirdos. next you're going to recommend drinking human milk.
Milk is for infants anyway, whichever species.
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#53I think there are recommendations on the maximum amount of bugs that can fall into a can of green beans or a bag of potato chips. So per year I've eaten a certain amount of bugs without knowing. Ignorance is probably biss.
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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 modern factory farming that is true, but older subsistence style farming is different. Cows eat grass and weeds, I however can't eat those. Chickens can be fed scraps and inedible seeds and bugs, I can eat some of that but not all of it and chickens will actively look for their own food if possible requiring little work on my part. Pigs will eat literal shit and rotten food like it was a jelly doughnut.
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#55I've heard that I'm unknowingly "eating" bugs everyday by drinking ground coffee I don't know if it's a fact or a myth
There are almost no crops that are totally free from bugs, coffee has extra stages of sitting and drying too which would do it no favors either. It's just not enough to worry about, just like the shit you inhale when you smell a fart.
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#56let the chickens eat the bugs you weirdos. next you're going to recommend drinking human milk.
Milk is for infants anyway, whichever species.
My milk adapted genes disagree. If I wasn't suppose to eat it my ancestors wouldn't have adapted/evolved the ability to eat an unlimited amount of dairy without a problem.
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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.
In Western Civ., was whale eaten, or was whale used primarily for it's whale oil?
In places where it is/was eaten does that happen sustainably? (Japan excluded...)
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#58One thing about some insects - I used to have fish in an aquarium that were large enough to eat crickets in one bite, and every single insect I caught in our home and put in the water also had parasitic worms that tried to escape the host insect immediately when it realized the insect was in water - these parasitic worms seem to take up most of the insects abdomen. This might not be a problem in non tropical parts of…
Jesus Christ. I've eaten crickets for the novelty, but now I won't until I'm absolutely sure they're not holding those huge parasitic worms.
Re: Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
#59We don't eat bugs because nobody has yet developed a machine that can affordably extract the meat.
We don't eat cattle whole. When we make burgers, we leave out the skin and poop and horns and teeth. Bugs aren't any different.
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#60I was eating out with an "ideologically motivated" vegetarian friend of mine, who doesn't eat meat because it's "ethically wrong", and he ordered crabs. I challenged him (jokingly, but ready to argue my point on aesthetic grounds): "Crabs are just giant bugs, and you're a vegetarian, so why do you eat bugs?" He replied "I eat bugs because they're the enemy!"
> vegetarian friend of mine ... he ordered crabs
Not a vegetarian.