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- r4NGe, on 10/10/2007, -4/+67grow up, insects are harmless and good for you.
- obliviousfool, on 10/10/2007, -1/+49If you've been eating insects in your food your whole life, why stop now?
- riverrunner, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37and this proves its not possible to be a vegetarian in the strict sense of the word. there are bound to be aphid parts somewhere in that salad.
- LotusWolf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25you mean...theres salad in my aphids? eww eww eww eww...
- waterdrop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21I could careless about the insect filth. It's the rodent filth that bothers me.
- Matrix_Prime, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20"Do you like eating insects?"
No, but I like eating mouse ***** apparently. - mtrip, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14I have no intention of reading this article, ever. Ignorance is bliss.
- CletusJones, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15I ate roasted ants at a movie theatre in Cartagena, Colombia once. They are good, a bit nutty, and are a good replacement for popcorn. Bugs aint bad.
- Krinkov, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14I can assure you theres much MUCH worse things in processed foods than an occasional insect :(
- Heggy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13They pose no health risk, and as r4NGe says are good for you, Albeit you can't eat all insects but various insects are nutritious, full of protein and such.
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/facehugger/insect.html - Four20, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11angelfire, lol
- carbonetc, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11If people didn't think insects were "gross", we might actually have a healthier country right now. Can you imagine the savings if we reared fewer cattle and more bugs? And how much less fat we'd be putting into ourselves as a result? We throw all that away over a taboo.
It's not like we have to eat them raw out of a bowl. There must be plenty of recipes out there where you can barely tell it's insect-based.
Or you can just think of them as "land shrimp". - selrahc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6My dad always calls them the inspectors. The best foods always have bugs or worms all over them(this is on freshly grown food though). I have to admit, that even though you have to pick little green inch worms off of it, the broccoli he grows is the best I've ever had.
- cyclox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Easy solution.... Fry all of your foods. EVERYTHING tastes good fried.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6the beer wouldn't be so good without fermented aphids!
- cyclox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6What is even worse than that is all of that insect sex that was going on in your oatmeal.
- Twister47, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Most of the insect ones are in the 10-50 'insect fragments', until you get to Thyme. It is considered bad only after an average of 325 insect fragments or more per 10 grams.
Damn those Thyme lobbyists. - Azur3us, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Note that these are the ACCEPTABLE levels allowed, just because you buy broccoli doesnt mean there are 60 aphids per 100 grams. It varies based on the manufacturer.
- iamsamsamiam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Bugs are a good source of protein, i don't see what's wrong with eating insects.
- MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7And to those diggers who are Jewish, its not an excuse. Preventing all bugs is impossible even under the most strict conditions, and because of this, you are not held liable. I am Jewish myself, and I know my facts.
- Royal0rleans, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Lobsters are the insects of the sea, and tons of people enjoy lobster.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Insects made up for a huge portion of our diet prior to the bronze age. Fruit and vegetables were seasonal and rare, meat was hard to come by. Scientists studying the coprolite samples left from stone age man have found a large portion of the diet was beetles and other insects.
- Mommy2Lots, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Word about eating local and homemade.
- nubi78, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I just opened a container of rolled oats that I bought a few weeks ago and found little bugs crawling all over the oats. I was grossed out at first but then mad because I wanted to make oatmeal. What is even worse is those bug eggs were there the whole time which means I probably ate some of them already.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Don't worry. The USFDA knows much more about the healthfulness of food than we do, and it's always looking out for us. Otherwise, the USA wouldn't have such a high life expectancy compared to other countries, now would it?
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I agree, there's always these announcements of 'did you know there's X in your common household Y!!!' It's something different if you show strong correlation, or causality between the presence of X and an incidence of some illness. But if it being 'gross' doesn't actually make me sicker or contribute greatly to any serious health risks, then it doesn't really matter at all.
On that note I always wanted to see statistics for the rate of illness contracted by germ-a-phobes to the general population, or even better those people the put down the paper seats on toilet paper, if water can get through it, chances are bacteria can too. - theghoul, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3HOPS Insects
(AOAC 967.23) Average of more than 2,500 aphids per 10 grams
DEFECT SOURCE: Pre-harvest infestation
SIGNIFICANCE: Aesthetic
WHY?!!?!? *cries* - WilliamDavis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Someone suggested "land shrimp" for bugs earlier in the thread. I'll suggest "land jelly" for the mold.
- Xill, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3The entire food industry is being taken over by NATO and their lame guidelines. Eat local, home made.
- Shenanigans, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2"Average of 30 or more..."
Then it's not really an average then. - mlostracco, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'd rather have aphids in my salad than centipedes in my...
- po43292, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I wonder where this falls on the list:
https://www.thailandunique.com/store/images/silkworm_bbq.jpg - mojibyrd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Not a problem as long as they are organic insects...besides with all the chemical additives anymore, are you really going to taste the insect anyhow
- blitzer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3all this talk is making me hungry
- Chordinator, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Sorry sir, but that was proven to be a myth. And for that, I am thankful.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Go read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. Then tell me what is so unacceptable.
- 0crabby0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I love the taste of crickets - But not cave crickets because they're too squishy...
- tcdk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Possible add bacon. Everything's good with bacon.
- WilliamDavis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Wouldn't 325 insect fragments weigh about 10 grams? Is thyme just another word for insect fragment sprinkles?
- o0joshua0o, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Trust me. You do NOT want to get on the Thyme lobbyists' bad side.
- WilliamDavis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1It is if you're working for the government. Wait, it isn't. Nevermind.
- cyclox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1agreed... yellow #6 or aphids? Not a very hard choice to make.
- WilliamDavis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Actually, hotlix sells these long round things with cream in them. Not sure what they are... it's like a submarine wearing a helmet.
- mrwiggles123, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Hah... cornmeal is allowed 1 rodent/25 grams?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1How do they taste?
- Royal0rleans, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3Go ahead, care less, I dare you.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1This information is pretty old: "May 1995; Revised March 1997 and May 1998"
I wonder what the FDA allows now, 10 years later? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1 I saw a nature program where a naturalist was in South America...The people he was studying were eating large spiders (roasted)...He ate one and said it tasted like shrimp.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1MMMMM...Cook it in coconut and pineapple!
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