I'll never forget eating locusts back in scouts. They were excellent, if a little crunchy- just like chicken.
I think I'll go vegan before eating bugs.
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Oh i figured you were talking about basilisks. They are delicious when broiled.
As for insects, the revulsion to them in the USA and Europe is mostly a cultural thing, combined with our ready supply of cheap beef, pork and chicken. In Asia and Africa, where meat is much more expensive, insects and other arthropods comprise a large part of people's diets. Its a cheap and readily available source of protein.
Sorry, I only like sea bugs.
Crab, lobster, yum.
The Six-Legged Meat of the Future
It's a conspiracy. You're only trying to spare you and your kind.
Resistance is futile. You will be consumed.
Oh i figured you were talking about basilisks. They are delicious when broiled.
Last game, my party ran into Thistlelip, Duke Chupo and Raspit of "The Devil Box" fame. After the party helped them out, the friendly kobolds treated them to basilisk stew. It was yummy!
My dog really loved cicadas - we were in one of the 17 year swarms in the Washington DC area, and every walk he went on was like being in a free buffet, over every square inch of the ground the entire way. He was very happy. :)
Yum-yum!
As long as my food is completly and irrevocably dead (but not dead long enough to start rotting), isn't poisonous/diseased and isn't cat I am mostly ok with it.
The meat of the future is us two legs...
The meat of the future is us two legs...
Soylent Green is people! Soon they'll be raising us like cattle!
Other than the inherent "Eww, yuck! Bugs!" I've really never heard any cogent arguments against using insects as a food source for humans.
Well, that's all you really need.
It might be less a burden to nature, but if she doesn't want to be burdened, nature shouldn't have made proper food sources so burdensome.
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My dog really loved cicadas - we were in one of the 17 year swarms in the Washington DC area, and every walk he went on was like being in a free buffet, over every square inch of the ground the entire way. He was very happy. :)
Good golly, I remember that. I must have smacked quite a few of them on my windshield on the beltway.
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As to people's aversion to bugs, c'mon, it's not like y'all haven't eaten them in your life. You're just not aware of it. Either in inevitable ingestion from the food supply (insect contamination, you're just not aware of it but it's in there) to food coloring (red). So eat up and enjoy! ;-)
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