If we were to use insects as a food source they're high in protein low in fat and there's an estimated 300,000,000 insects for every human they would literally feed the global population and there's no way they could ever run out insects have a very short lifespan and are low on the food chain so they're sustainable
but there is a taco bell right down the street... a lot of people do eat bugs, why not I agree. I'll just go live in the woods and eat bugs and shit and not have a job why not. eating bugs isnt gross, just another thing on this planet. they probably have some crazy vitamins and shit. ants can ccarry many times their own strength so thats why if you eat ants you gain super strength!
barbeque flavored grubs weren't so bad, i tried them on some field trip back in school. basically though, don't eat bugs if you have other food sources. however, as a last resort, eat whatever crawls your way to survive. unless it's poisonous, and i don't know how to distinguish that, sorry..
The only reason we think bugs are gross is because society tells us they are in other country's they eat bugs without a second glance
Ive eaten giant ants in gold dust, bamboo grubs, scorpions, hornets...even deer penis alcohol....yes china is a fucked up place lol .. But still none of it was disgusting taste wise
You're missing out, fried grasshopper is amazing. I might actually catch a few bird grasshoppers, those get big enough to be worth my time.
Actually, many of the things we eat and drink today contain dyes made from crushed beetles. This includes yellow #5, red #, etc. It's in koolaid, M&Ms, and starbucks just recently took a strawberry drink off their menu because the public found out it contained crushed beetles for the coloring. It's not bad, it all passes through the FDA.....then again a lot of things pass through the FDA.......
I'll usually eat the bugs that fly into my house Nothing like fresh fruit fly that's been sitting in dog crap Omega369
I always run into those totally wonderously beautifully creepy lollipops with like, cicadas or some shit, grasshoppers in them and whatever. tequila flavored and whatnot. in random cool places, never buy any though. or like, chocolate covered worms and ants and shit. Dunno about all that but in animal mode I would be metal gear solid vibing that entire jungle and eating bomb-ass animal meats
Yeah a lot of candy shops in my area carry those lollipops. I can only imagine eating the candy and finding an unfamiliar crunch in your mouth when you reach the center. How many licks does it take?
Actually it's crushed scale insects. cochineal is a dye the scale insects produce. It's not too common any more, being replaced with various plant-based dyes. That's a real shame, too. The red you get from the cochineal scale is nice and vivid.
i have had chocolate ants before but if i had to go out into nature to find my own food supply i would definitely hunt deer or rabbit, or go fishing, before i ate bugs.
Scale insects are of the family "Hemiptera", the insect secretes a chemical that hardens to form a protective shell over them.