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Chasing Amy:
http://news.yahoo.com/un-eat-more-insects-good-good-world-145950434.html

ROME (AP) — The latest weapon in the U.N.'s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right now.

Edible insects are being promoted as a low-fat, high-protein food for people, pets and livestock. According to the U.N., they come with appetizing side benefits: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and livestock pollution, creating jobs in developing countries and feeding the millions of hungry people in the world.

Some edible insect information in bite-sized form:

WHO EATS INSECTS NOW?

Two billion people do, largely in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday as it issued a report exploring edible insect potential.

Some insects may already be in your food (and this is no fly-in-my-soup joke). Demand for natural food coloring as opposed to artificial dyes is increasing, the agency's experts say. A red coloring produced from the cochineal, a scaled insect often exported from Peru, already puts the hue in a trendy Italian aperitif and an internationally popular brand of strawberry yogurt. Many pharmaceutical companies also use colorings from insects in their pills.

Dig in! (You'll probably want to shell him first)

witchypoo:
i suspect - if bug protein were mashed and formed like a lot of other mass produced proteins - neither you nor i would be any the wiser.

as long as it doesn't still look like a [hideous, revolting, awful] slug when it sits on my plate, i'm fine with the idea.

bug burger, anyone?

radial:

mango:
meh, this is no more revolting unusual than eating any other animals.

onawhim:

--- Quote from: mango on May 13, 2013, 02:37:04 PM ---meh, this is no more revolting unusual than eating any other animals.



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1.  And I agree with witchy.  If it did not look like bugs people would be fine with it.  People were fine with it at SB until they found out it was bug dye. 

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