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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: 2) by deimtee on Monday September 12 2016, @03:03AM
Humans have been eating insects for a very long time. You have enzymes to digest chitin. That shell is part of the "70% protein".
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @06:45AM
US folk have probably been eating tiny amounts of insects in peanut butter and similar, along with other arthropods (esp mites).
FWIW I actually do _like_ Thai style fried silkworm pupae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXTJaAplhTQ [youtube.com]
A friend and I have agreed that we miss eating it sometimes (we can't get it easily and cheaply around here). Good as snack food, and probably healthier than much junk food.
I haven't tried the fried/roasted Chinese style ones, they might be OK but see: http://foodtube.livejournal.com/2390.html [livejournal.com]
But I don't think I'd eat the Korean style stewed ones...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 12 2016, @06:50AM
The first video isn't the sort I ate, but I can't find better videos (it looks similar but the video one appears to boiled). The one I had was deep fried, then had seasoning sprayed on it and mixed with some green leaf (curry leaf?).