Why We Should Be Eating Insects
Dutch entomology professor Arnold van Huis wants you to eat bugs. From an interview with Ode magazine:
Why should we eat insects? While the world population is growing and our global wealth is advancing, meat consumption is rising dramatically. Currently, 70 percent of farmland is being used for meat production. If this trend continues, it will prove unsustainable. Moreover, livestock is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, including methane and nitrous oxide. Insects have a much lower environmental burden, while their nutritional value measures up to chicken or beef.
Van Huis concedes that bugs can take some getting used to but that they can be processed in ways that make them less recognizable, "just as a filet doesn't resemble any particular animal."
And hey: The interview comes complete with recipes. Banana Worm Bread, Mealworm Fried Rice, Rootworm Beetle Dip, and, my favorite, Ant Brood Tacos.
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Another way to preserve the environment without resorting to icky bug eating is to turn our appetites toward our friends and neighbors, as described in the groundbreaking new memoir "My Year of Cannibalism".
beagle72 at 2:41PM on 03/14/08
I don't know... with some insects it could work; for example, I really don't imagine that the texture of certain grubs would be significantly different from that of shrimp, if they were prepared in the same way.
mongoose at 3:42PM on 03/14/08
But do they taste like pork? If not, FAIL. :)
Rich at 3:53PM on 03/14/08