Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
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Why Don’t More Humans Eat Bugs? (2018)
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#2It’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.
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#4I'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
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#5I was very apprehensive when i first tried roasted crickets. By the time i was on my second spoonful, i was wondering the same. Why haven't i had more of them?
It's the mental block that we've been conditioned with. That bugs are "disgusting" things.
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#6Because they’re gross looking and honestly don’t taste that great (speaking from experience). It’s not rocket science.
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#7I've had deep fried crickets and deep fried mealy worms. I think its was the preparation that put me off them.
The crickets tasted/felt like semi crunchy shells. Not very enjoyable to eat and the after effect was lumps of ground up shell in my teeth.. meh
The mealy worms were not quite as bad as the crickets but waaaay overpowered by the herbs and stuff mixed in with them.
I'm also very much anti deep fried anything so I'd really like to try them prepped another way.
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#8A comment was deleted, which said,
> For the same reason we don’t eat grass. We get them preprocessed by other animals and then eat them instead because they are tastier.
The reason we don’t eat grass is because our digestive system can’t really absorb much energy from it. Eating grass requires a very specialized digestive system, and we just don’t have those specializations.
The reason grass isn’t tasty is because our taste has coevolved with our digestive system so things we can digest are tasty.
Bugs are tasty. We can get nutrients from bugs. Do you like breadcrumbs on your macaroni and cheese? Try ants instead. They give the same crunch and a similar texture, but a bit of a different flavor. I think it’s a nice contrast to the load of soft carbs and fat in macaroni and cheese.
That said, I’m still going to use breadcrumbs. I’m just not that adventurous. Bugs are treated as novelties, not food, in mainstream US culture. If they’re not part of your tradition, you end up making a big deal out of them.
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#9I'd like to eat insects, but they're a lot more expensive than chicken.
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#10One 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 the world, but it's like a horror movie in miniature.
http://theconversation.com/the-parasite-a-crickets-nightmare...