Maybe if they started serving them in the place of chicken nuggets at McDonalds?

More seriously, for me personally, I'd want to taste them in a tasty dish that someone else had made, sort of the way I got turned on to mushrooms and other things. Do you eat insects? What do you eat them in?

(Which is not to say I don't eat insects. Those cabbage worms on the broccoli sometimes make it into our diet... )

Clearly we need to put together an insect recipe book.

Or maybe talk local Chinese restaurants into adding insects to their buffets?

Count me out!

Wat de boer niet kent dat vreet ie niet.

I keep hoping that I'll be able to find the article I read sometime in the last few months about the vegan Buddhist monks who suddenly started getting sick when they stopped growing and started buying their vegetables. It turned out they were unwittingly consuming enough insects when growing their own food that they got some essential nutrients now missing from their diets.

Which is all to say --- if you don't know you're eating it, why yech? Think of it as a value-added product.

Because there's a difference between unwittingly eating a bug in your greens and eating fried-scorpion-on-a-stick.

Of course when you go down to bacteria &c, everyone is probably eating millions or billions of them a day on every kind of food. But since they're to small to see, nobody minds.

I don't eat insects intentionally. I understand that they are the most efficient method of producing the nutritional value in terms of resource input.

I would think that it would be difficult to overcome the discomfort that people in general have with the concept of eating insects. I am keen on the idea in theory but am not sure myself if I could actually follow through.

Perhaps if we started with using them as nutritional supplements in current products?

Hi,

I can say that I am addicted to insects here in HCM City Viet Nam and have to eat them at least once a month in a well hidden but very popular restaurant. At first, I was just looking for something different to try, then after the first time, I keep coming back.

I agree that probably the best way to go is to feed the bugs to animals and then harvest the animals, but I have just seen a couple of firms in the USA selling cricket flour and mealworm flour for human consumption. This is being said to be better protein than beef protein. I don't know how true this is, but I would like to find out more about breeding bugs for food, but can't seem to find much, especially not here in the UK. Gray