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Eating Bugs: Hard to Argue With?

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The case for eating insects:

Generally speaking, insects are high in protein and essential fatty acids and low in cholesterol.... A 2004 U.N. report promoted insects as an environmentally friendly food source: low impact, consuming very little in the way of feed, easy to harvest, with no special measures required for their husbandry. ... Insects are arthropods, like lobster, crab and shrimp. They are plentiful, and account for over half of the known species on the planet. We spend billions of pounds trying to control or eradicate them, when we could just be eating them. So why don't we?

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