Nikia
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Sat Jan-28-06 02:34 PM
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Why don't more people eat bugs? |
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I haven't really researched this, but it seems to me that eating insects would be a good moral and ecologically friendly alternative to eating birds and mammals as a source of animal protein. Insects reproduce in large numbers in a short period of time. They pretty much evolved to be eaten. Raising them commericially would take up much less space and food than raising slower growing mammals. I don't think that people could really say that it is cruel to confine or eat them. Am I totally off base here?
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Deja Q
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Sat Jan-28-06 02:36 PM
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1. We will be. After the crash. |
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Unless Patriot II makes eating bugs not previously approved by the FDA illegal...
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Sat Jan-28-06 02:53 PM
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humans (mostly) don't eat meat to survive. They do so because it's pleasurable. Eating bugs probably strikes most people as being repugnant, and therefore have little interest in it.
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Sat Jan-28-06 03:51 PM
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3. They do--just not in this culture |
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Many, many people in cultures around the world eat insects and arachnids. My co-worker says tarantula legs taste just like french fries.
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Sat Jan-28-06 05:30 PM
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5. They do -- even in this culture. |
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The FDA allows a certain amount of bug parts per food unit. People eat pounds of bugs each year without knowing it.
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Sat Jan-28-06 05:12 PM
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4. No thanks. I think I'll stay a vegetarian. |
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It has the same ecological advantages you speak of. And I don't have to worry about having cockroach legs stuck between my teeth.
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Sat Jan-28-06 05:36 PM
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6. Why don't more bugs eat people? |
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