Will you eat bugs?

I have a feeling you're going to eating at McDonalds the rest of the week.

 

Meal moths are a bitch. You have to throw away your dry food to get rid of them.

 

Anyone that likes crustaceans shouldn't have a problem with bugs as a concept.

 

bug parts are in most of our food and most vegans have no issue using insecticides to kill off bugs, so I do not think they care about the life of a bug

we hear animal rights people complain about solar and wind energy killing animals, but I have never heard one say cars kill bugs, the proof is in the windshield

 

You get hungry enough, and you will eat anything.

 

This picture is legit apparently. Supposedly this person was riddled with parasites from eating sushi. I didn't eat real sushi before seeing this, definitely won't afterwards. Medium rare beef is as far as I'm willing to push my luck.

 

....and 'waterwheels' (bit like a smaller, aquatic version of the VFT); and 'bladderworts' (which trap tiny animals by sucking them into a vacuum), and 'trigger plants'. Probably a few more I missed there.

 

I have eaten stir fried ants, crickets, locusts, large cockroaches and moth larvae (or maybe pupae, not sure).

The ants, done with lemongrass and chilli, were nice. Same with the moth larvae. Yummy. I also liked the crickets, though you need to take the legs off. I would happily eat any of those again, though I might get an allergy check first. No reaction then, but just to be sure.

The shell on the locusts was too hard. Same with the cockroach. I popped that one and got out what meat I could. Neither were worth the effort.

I was going to try deep fried giant tarantula in Cambodia, but there was only one lady at the market selling them (for tourists I suspect) and the day I went to buy one she wasn't there. I have since discovered that the spiders are now endangered, so I won't repeat that if I return.

Eating insects makes as much sense as eating anything else. Provided people work out any potential health issues and cook them properly I am on board. They are a 'no' for strict vegetarians, but there are people who limit the types of meat they eat for various reasons who might be fine with them.

 

It would make no sense for bugs to be considered vegetarian, much less vegan.

That said, I've eaten ants and crickets (at the Audobon zoo Insectorium in NOLA). Couldn't get myself to try the meal worms. I liked the crickets though. They were cajun fried crickets, and were tasty.

 

The difference is size and amount of usable meat. Most bugs are eaten whole, shell and all and are fairly small. Most crustaceans we eat have more usable meat. Shrimp, crawdads and certain types of lobster--we just eat the tail. Others we get the meat out of the shell/legs/claws--crabs and Maine lobster. If there were terrestrial insects that had as much meat that we could eat without also having to eat the shells, I could see the popularity go up.

 

Yep. Honestly if you got rid of the head/stinger, you could probably market scorpions as land lobsters.

 

No I won't eat bugs.

 

Ya, uh, I hope you don't eat chocolate or peanut butter...