Insects as food ?

MikeTV

I wouldn't have any particular problem eating insects, as long as they were prepared in an appetising dish. Just eating cooked locusts, say, with nothing else, might be a bit tedious. But I'd be quite happy if most of our protein came from processed insects, instead of ruminants. It would probably be far more ecological.

I've eaten a few odd things in my time. Snakes, brains, horses (probably), etc. In Cambodia they eat tarantulas. On a trip I arrived at a rest stop where they had buckets of the live things and were frying them in woks. The passengers would eat them from bags like they were crisps.

It's just silly cultural practices. I remember watching a nature programme where a bear ate a salmon - he ate the head and skin only, and discarded all the flesh. He instinctively knew that the head and skin contained the most nutrition. Unlike us stupid humans who do the opposite.

I grew up in a household where you were expected to eat whatever was on your plate and be grateful. I'm rather pleased about that.

jay mc

Its already being done very well in the uk and across the world with the main use being live foods for the reptile/exotic pet markets and so on. 3 spieces of cricket, locust, meal worms, wax worms, earth worms, maggots are all pretty common and many are also working with silk worm, varius cockroach spieces (not pest type) snails and more still.
I used to keep a large number of lizards so started breeding my own food and was pretty easy to do so. but would i want to eat them myself, hell no! ive tryed meal worm, locust and wax worm once and never ever again..

kav

Think of the poor penguins and whales.

Ed Selley

Sod the locusts, it's time for Soylent Green. Nothing that a little Sriracha can't fix.

fluxo

I'm not surprised you object. Nobody likes cannibalism.

MikeTV

Ha, ha, ha, yes, it's funny because Aussies like to drink a lot like cattle, and they eat cattle, and so they are like cannibals.

IronGiant

No, despite Mike explaining it I still don't get it...

MikeTV

tapzilla2k

Which is a lazy excuse for doing nothing about anything "I need to fix the roof, but a comet might hit us tomorrow".

Losing bees entirely will have serious economic repercussions, unlike China we do not have the manpower to pollinate plants ourselves, that are dependent on bees and other pollinating insects. You also seem woefully ignorant of how biodiversity works and how everything is interconnected. And how even a minor loss can have a big impact all the way up the chain.

The biological calculation (which has been applied to other species), puts it that we will only be able to keep current living standards for around 1 billion people while the rest will have to fight it out. We are not immune from extinction through our own actions. We've seen it before with the collapse of civilisations down the ages due to lack of resources and so on.

pragmatic

Nature adores a vacuum, other insects might get a look in where they don't currently.

Wonderful thing nature, its not a garden of eden perfectly balanced and harmonious, rather a constant battle to the death to survive and strive, when an edge is found it is exploited, well if you believe in 'Darwin' anyway.