“There’s no reason we shouldn’t be eating bugs,” says Daniella Martin, author of Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet. “They’re incredibly nutritious, they have far higher levels of vitamins like zinc, B-12, and calcium than most animal meat. The slaughtering and processing process are very humane and they can be raised and slaughtered much closer to urban areas than other meat can."
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eating insects
Started by
blood
, Sep 12 2014 09:00 AM
insects protein crickets worms meat alternatives
9 replies to this topic
#1
Posted 12 September 2014 - 09:00 AM
Discuss:
#2
Posted 12 September 2014 - 01:40 PM
Hrr, eh eh - sounds good. But i'd be thinking, do they contain any unwanted microbes first!?
#3
Posted 21 September 2014 - 06:05 PM
You won't find me eating insects outside of a survival situation, haha. And hopefully I never find myself in one.
I would also be tempted to quickly boil any insects that I caught to both, hopefully, decontaminate them and hopefully improve palatability
#4
Posted 24 September 2014 - 01:01 AM
I would also be tempted to quickly boil any insects that I caught to both, hopefully, decontaminate them and hopefully improve palatability
Oddly enough, most people feel the same way about meat and fish. Also vegetables and grains, now that I think about it... Cooking is popular.
#5
Posted 22 October 2014 - 07:41 AM
There should be more businesses selling dried cricket flour. Eating insects whole or cooked is aesthetically distasteful, but as a protein powder it doesn't have the estrogenic effects of soy or the unvegan aspects of whey. (i'm not talking about cricket shakes here, more for baking with chickpea/coconut/almond flour, or mixed in oatmeal) There is a protein bar called exo or something similar that contains cricket flour. This trend will grow, especially with the small costs and space efficiency of cricket farming. You can feed crickets flax seed to produce omega-3 laden "livestock" as well.
Edited by Simon Silver, 22 October 2014 - 07:48 AM.
#6
Posted 17 January 2016 - 12:58 AM
this one just recent article; http://www.scienceda...60111122520.htm
#7
Posted 17 January 2016 - 06:59 PM
Not sure why anyone needs to eat insects to save the planet. There are plenty of fruits and vegetables to eat.
#8
Posted 17 January 2016 - 10:22 PM
yeah but, do fruits and vegetables contain omega 3s? I THINK NOT!
#9
Posted 17 January 2016 - 10:51 PM
Fruits and vegetables don't contain high value proteins or any useful B12 too, for that matter.
In many cultures eating insects is common practice, even alive delicacies like stinkbugs (Mexico) or cheeseworms (Sardinia-Italy).
I don't agree insects look aesthetically distasteful, we are just not used to it, does really a roasted grasshopper look distasteful compared to a grilled prawn?
To me some of the canned "food" on supermarkets' shelves looks far more distasteful.
#10
Posted 18 January 2016 - 06:35 PM
well, funny thing is those canned fruits and vegetables already contain bits of insects as several reports i have read in the past, a lot of insect parts end up in canned goods. so, vegetarians might actually be getting their insect healthy oils, proteins and vitamins already without knowing heh :D
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