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When potato chips and cheese doodles lose their luster, celery and carrots don't pack enough punch, and nostalgia for SERE School grips you:
Welcome to the exciting world of entomophagy! Below you will find a list of North American companies producing edible insects in various forms - from snack bites to protein powder to roasted whole. Start wherever you're comfortable.
Are you ready to eat some insects? The facts are out and it's hard to argue with them – insects are the perfect answer to people's desire for protein without the environmental costs that go along with animal agriculture. Raising insects for human consumption uses far less water, land, and food than livestock, and insects emit almost no greenhouse gases.
From the Entomo Farms website: "These insects contain 70% protein, more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach, and almost 20 times the amount of B12 as beef."
Also, overcoming antipathy toward eating insects is a useful post-SHTF (S* Hits The Fan) skill...
(Score: 3, Informative) by dyingtolive on Sunday September 11 2016, @11:50PM
Way back in high school, our biology teacher had a extra credit day for eating strange bug meals he brought in. There was some ants, crickets, and grasshoppers, and I think there might have been someone more exotic like spider or something. None of it was bad, though it had more going on for it than just straight up live crickets in a jar (which is what I think most people picture).
Not much flavor to the bugs themselves, and a little bit of crunch. Could've been worse.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!