Utah kids told to eat bugs to save the earth and get class credit

[Ban Hammer 13,098]

it's all fun and games until someone finds a horsehair worm.........

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

On 3/17/2023 at 12:12 AM, Lemonslice said:

Serious question, what is the difference between eating a cricket and a shrimp? A veal steak and a dog steak?  

As long as the ingredients of what you are eating are disclosed, why is it a problem? 

 

(for reference, I am an omnivore - I eat some weird things [to Americans], but I am still picky)

I agree.  My personal red line is left of the one below.  WAY left.  Too far left to fit the "family friendly" requirements of VJ, let's say.

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

On 3/17/2023 at 9:26 AM, Mike E said:

I can remove the indigestible outer chitin layer of a shrimp before eating it. And as shrimp mostly swim in saltwater the chitin is less likely to carry toxic microbes.

 

Never heard of sushi restaurants serving up raw crickets. Of course if you google for it, you will find that sure enough there are chefs serving insect sushi. But being a thing doesn't make it a main stream thing.
 

It is a puzzle to me why I am expected to embrace food I consider to be trash, while billions  are not expected to embrace my food preferences: pork, beef, crustaceans, shell fish, booze. I am really getting tired of forced accommodation. 

 

Insects = poison. Not happening:. WEF, UN, EU, Ds, public schools, and whomever else are shoving this agenda can all go pound sand while I grill a steak on my gas grill. 

To be clear, sushi is rice with vinegar, and has nothing to do with either shrimp or crickets.

Insects are not (for the most part) poison.  While not my preferred dish, I have eaten them more than once and experienced no ill effects.  And many people who live in poverty conditions (the likes of which most of us cannot even imagine) have survived by eating insects.  

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

On 3/17/2023 at 10:24 AM, yuna628 said:

 

 

Cicadas are a local delicacy around these parts, beloved by humans and pets. They are extremely similar to shrimp, in both taste and genetics to the point it is unadvisable to eat them if you are allergic to seafood. People eat frogs, snails, crabs and lots of bottom feeding creatures. Crab 'mustard' which many people still consume is essentially 'waste product'. I don't really see the issue, if people willingly want to eat something and it won't hurt them. Our ancestors ate them, sometimes out of necessity.

Interesting, grew up living among cicadas, and never heard of anyone eating them.  Might hafta give them a try.

But if it's clean protein, it's likely nutritious.  Chicken gizzards, hearts, intestines, feet, beef tripe,  balut, insects (minus silkworm larvae, never could bring myself to try that stinky delicacy).... I have eaten all of those and survived.  People who turn their noses up at those foods have simply never been hungry enough in their life.

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

21 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

They are going after the kids because they are the ones that can be easily manipulated. They have done this in more then a few classes. Making chips out of crickets and other junk food. Telling kids its healthier 🙄

 

Why do you think they built that huge cricket plant in Ontario. It sure isn't for the pet industry. 

 

And yes when you are sitting there telling kids if you eat this you will get extra credit. That just shows the amount of manipulation they are going to use on them. 

Really lends credence to home schooling one's children, eh?

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

7 hours ago, LIBrty4all said:

Really lends credence to home schooling one's children, eh?

What, exactly, are you confused about, @Mike E???

[Neonred 3,514]

I did swallow a bug one time.  It was by accident.

 

And then there was that time I started eating a cookie I left sitting out.  Discovered a little late that the ants beat me to it.

 

 

Edited March 20, 2023 by Neonred

[TBoneTX 44,613]

Waiting for the Insect Rights crowd to weigh in.

[yuna628 9,646]

On 3/18/2023 at 8:46 PM, LIBrty4all said:

Interesting, grew up living among cicadas, and never heard of anyone eating them.  Might hafta give them a try.

But if it's clean protein, it's likely nutritious.  Chicken gizzards, hearts, intestines, feet, beef tripe,  balut, insects (minus silkworm larvae, never could bring myself to try that stinky delicacy).... I have eaten all of those and survived.  People who turn their noses up at those foods have simply never been hungry enough in their life.

https://today.umd.edu/cicada-licous-cooking-e031e1f4-ee49-4a27-a377-72607b8ed189  

Have you tried chapulines? Apparently they are popular in Washington state now as snacks at the baseball games. 

It's always crazy when we get brood emergence in Maryland, because the dogs will gorge on them like it's candy and then they get a bad tummy from eating too much. Our ancestors certainly weren't opposed to eating insects, we've just forgotten about it. I'm not an organ meat person, but I'm pretty sure my grandparents ate that sort of thing during war time.

 

10 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Waiting for the Insect Rights crowd to weigh in.

Well like any creature on this planet, insects deserve some amount of care and respect. Our ancestors understood they were good food sources too. If we don't solve the bee problem we're going to be in trouble...  and we have outbreaks and many non-native harmful insects that we're struggling to get rid of. Lanternflies are the big new ones. Beautiful and clever insects, but terribly bad. Unfortunately I don't think they are safe to eat either. 

[Mike E 11,732]

3 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Have you tried chapulines? Apparently they are popular in Washington state now as snacks at the baseball games. 

That makes sense.

 

4 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Our ancestors certainly weren't opposed to eating insects

Nor were they opposed to blood letting, burning witches, geo centric models of the universe, etc

 

8 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

insects deserve some amount of care and respect

That reminds me, time to hang the electric zapper. There is nothing more pleasing to my ears when I hear a swarm of insects succumbing to electric fire. We can end west nile disease in our time.

[yuna628 9,646]

2 minutes ago, Mike E said:

That makes sense.

 

Nor were they opposed to blood letting, burning witches, geo centric models of the universe, etc

 

That reminds me, time to hang the electric zapper. There is nothing more pleasing to my ears when I hear a swarm of insects succumbing to electric fire. We can end west nile disease in our time.

Hey, based on what I'm seeing these days, some of these methods are regaining popularity! 😉

 

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

19 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

https://today.umd.edu/cicada-licous-cooking-e031e1f4-ee49-4a27-a377-72607b8ed189  

Have you tried chapulines? Apparently they are popular in Washington state now as snacks at the baseball games. 

It's always crazy when we get brood emergence in Maryland, because the dogs will gorge on them like it's candy and then they get a bad tummy from eating too much. Our ancestors certainly weren't opposed to eating insects, we've just forgotten about it. I'm not an organ meat person, but I'm pretty sure my grandparents ate that sort of thing during war time.

 

Well like any creature on this planet, insects deserve some amount of care and respect. Our ancestors understood they were good food sources too. If we don't solve the bee problem we're going to be in trouble...  and we have outbreaks and many non-native harmful insects that we're struggling to get rid of. Lanternflies are the big new ones. Beautiful and clever insects, but terribly bad. Unfortunately I don't think they are safe to eat either. 

Nope, never eaten fried grasshoppers, only live ones.  I'm sure they are good though, they sound delicious.

[Mike E 11,732]

Just now, yuna628 said:

Hey, based on what I'm seeing these days, some of these methods are regaining popularity! 😉

 

Precisely. 

[Dashinka 24,088]

4 hours ago, Mike E said:

That makes sense.

 

Nor were they opposed to blood letting, burning witches, geo centric models of the universe, etc

 

That reminds me, time to hang the electric zapper. There is nothing more pleasing to my ears when I hear a swarm of insects succumbing to electric fire. We can end west nile disease in our time.

I did a good old fashioned blood letting yesterday at the American Red Cross.

[Mike E 11,732]

44 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

I did a good old fashioned blood letting yesterday at the American Red Cross.

Do you feel better?