Well, they can have my share.
WRKO: A new study says insects are good for you, when you eat them. About two-billion people around the world already know that and bugs are a regular part of their diet. But eating insects is a tough sell in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Now, researchers at Rutgers University have found there are about 1,900 insect species that are edible and highly nutritious. The scientists say insects contain healthy fats, protein, fiber, vitamins, and essential minerals.
The study was published in a recent edition of the journal “Molecular Biology and Evolution.” see video
It’s a cultural thing. If you grew up surrounded by people who thought the idea of eating insects was yucky, you’re pretty much guaranteed never to think otherwise.
I’ve eaten a number of different insects prepared a variety of ways. My favorite is earthworms sautéed in butter and garlic and used in lieu of croûtons in a nice blue (moldy) cheese salad. Yummmmm!
Expect to see a lot more stories like this.
First, they are shocking in their headlines, and so are perfect clickbait.
But most important they are conditioning you into being amicable to eating bugs.
They will coach this as some kind of health benefit, or saving the planet, or just because it’s “fair” because a few billion people do it already, and besides your gluttonous appetite for animal protein and a warm bed somehow caused a few billion to be poor, so you deserve to eat bugs, you white male cis-racist, you!
If and when The SHTF, I may have to acquire some protein in this fashion, once all the local squirrels and woodchucks are extirpated. As it is now, I’ll eat my insects in FDA approved doses in processed foodstuffs.
Attention people already living in a shithole. I’ll stick with Kobe beef
@But that’s me:
So will Barky. Shithole that HE is.
Its hard enough eating mammals, fish and birds. Not moving to bugs.
Conditioning us for the liberal’s shit-hole America that they have planned. Screw them. I’ll take Trump’s America.
@flip,
If the SHTF really hard, to the point of mass starvation, then those squirrels, woodchucks, and various “game” animals will be gone in a week.
Even the birds will be gone in a short time.
Nope, your best bet is to get comfortable with the concept of cannibalism.
Official staple of north korea
kimmy say bark very good for you, too.
Large Grasshopper legs roasted under a match flame is one childhood memory.
Haven’t eaten them for 58 years, they were easy to catch and quite tasty.
Cuisine left over from the depression as I recall being told.
I occasionally eat insects, but it’s certainly not because of any “save the planet” crap or multi-culti/SJW bilge. I eat insects because they’re tasty.
Hmmm. Come to think of it, wouldn’t eating grub worms and the like be African cultural appropriation?
I have two apple trees in my yard and I get a few bushels off them each year. I never spray, so most have spots.
When I prepare the apples I always cut the spots out.
When I serve them in pies or apple butter or applesauce I always brag how they are “100% organic, fortified with random protein supplements….”
Leviticus 11 New Century Version (NCV)
20 “‘Don’t eat insects that have wings and walk on all four feet; they also are to be hated.
21 “‘But you may eat certain insects that have wings and walk on four feet. You may eat those that have legs with joints above their feet so they can jump. 22 These are the insects you may eat: all kinds of locusts, winged locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers. 23 But all other insects that have wings and walk on four feet you are to hate. 24 Those insects will make you unclean, and anyone who touches the dead body of one of these insects will become unclean until evening. 25 Anyone who picks up one of these dead insects must wash his clothes and be unclean until evening.
Of course in my early days of “motorcycle enthusiasm”, before I went with a puss-shield…..I had a steady diet of flying critters. A trip across Nebraska is what broke my machismo. Biggest flies EVER.
We ate shit for 8 years. I can eat bugs no problem.
@Bongo, every 200 miles (in suburbia) or 30 miles (in the farm), pulling over to lick the visor clean is a necessity!
The reason for most of the sanitary laws and dietary laws in Leviticus were because the Egyptians ate certain foods at banquet to honor their gods.
When Moses descended the mountain with the commandments, they were already eating at banquet to honor Appas, the Golden Calf and they were eating pork or what not in his honor.
to understand the ritual laws you had to have been there.
Lazlo does not eat bugs. That includes big ocean spiders and relatives of the bed louse dipped in butter.
Dirt has a higher nutritional value, and ranks lower on the vomitoric scale.
Just be sure to roast the “locusts” or grasshopper really well to kill the infectious parasites within.
Oh you’ll eat them. You’ll eat ratshit and straw and your mother’s liver when you get hungry enough.
Bugs are ok to eat. God set up a new standard of edibles after The Lord’s Ascension. It happened when Peter visited Cornelius.
Bible > KJV > Acts 10
◄ Acts 10 ►
King James Bible
Cornelius Sends for Peter
1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. 3 He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
4 And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
5 And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: 6He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
7 And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
8 And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
Peter’s Vision
(Leviticus 11:1-47; Deuteronomy 14:1-21)
9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
16 This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
I hate to break it to you like this, but we ALL eat insects (or parts thereof) in our food. Also rat hairs and poop, fly eggs, and much, much more. Every day.
http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/29/how_many_insect_parts_and_rodent_hairs_are_allowed_in_your_food.htm
Bon appetit.
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Third worlders eat bugs all the time. They have no choice, but First world people have food choices because of capitalism.
We’ll be fine as long as we don’t let sh*thole loving progressives get control of the economy.
@Ow My Balls: You left out dead Uruguayan rugby players:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3455568/Die-break-ultimate-taboo-Survivor-s-moving-account-Andes-plane-crash-victims-forced-eat-friends-bodies-story-haunts-world-40-years-on.html
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And the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu…
Native Americans here in Utah like to point out that the Mormon crickets the seagulls saved them from were really manna from heaven (historically, native inhabitants around the shores of the Great Salt Lake would watch for this behavior by the gulls then watch for windrows of disgorged crickets, nicely salted and ready to roast). Perhaps, but you have to keep it down in order to get any nutritive value from it.
Fremont tells the story of some trappers who stumbled upon an empty Paiute encampment on the shores of Mono Lake. After days wandering without food, they gorged on the stores they found. One of them took a closer look at their meal and discovered it was comprised of grubs (brine fly pupae and larvae) that had been mashed then dried and pounded into powder. They all emptied their stomachs.
The Goshute call shrimp sea grasshoppers. To each their own.
I don’t purposefully eat insects, but I do enjoy eating things that eat insects (though poultry fed too much grasshoppers, locust or crickets tend to taste a bit fishy).
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a King, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”
— Hamlet – Act 4, Scene 3
“they were eating pork or what not in his honor.”
Chapter and verse on that bit?
What’s really behind all this is that they don’t want you eating cow and sandwiches.