Insects could rescue humankind from food crisis

By Osamu Deguchi

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Nessie at 02:50 AM JST - 20th October

I have patented the world's smallest rotisserie in anticipation of this trend.
Triple888 at 10:44 AM JST - 20th October

God knows what us humans have been eating before "civilization".
timorborder at 02:12 PM JST - 20th October

Brings back memories of survival training. Being given a chicken and an axe (kill the chicken). Me and my hippy mate liberated the chicken and ate grass instead. During continuation training in Brunei many years ago, we "feasted" on the biggest stick insects I have seen. One of my friends tried to due the "I can eat it raw" act and ended up being evacuated with a chronic case of the sssss.. If insects are really the answer to the world's food needs, we must be in a really bad state.
okapake at 05:59 PM JST - 20th October

Scorpions in China!
Nessie at 06:33 PM JST - 20th October

One of my friends tried to due the "I can eat it raw" act and ended up being evacuated with a chronic case of the sssss..

Timor, tell me more.
rajakumar at 06:44 PM JST - 20th October

Only agriculture grains higher outputs revolutions and distribution systems is necessary to feed world.

The food chain starts from grains first then goes on to feed all other species.
timorborder at 08:57 PM JST - 20th October

Nessie - my friend (who is currently running around Afghanistan looking for OBL, Elvis Presley, Harold Holt, and every other missing person) was dumb during continuation training many years ago to eat an insect that the locals called the "crxp bettle." Apparently if you were feeling backed up, you could eat this little beetle and it acted like a laxative. My friend, a great fan of the Dead Kennedies scoffed down 3 or 4 of the bettles before cooking them on a dare (guilty your honor), after about 6 hours, the world started falling out of a certain part of his anatomy. He dropped about 6kg of weight in 3 days and was evacuated with severe dehydration, he ended with the knick name "Jello the Biafran" which has stuck until this day.

To cut a long story short, experiences like that have put me off eating bugs for life.
HonestDictator at 01:14 AM JST - 21st October

I've had insects for food before. I dunno about boiling them, but if you stir fry 'em I can chug it. I've always wanted to try the African mopane worms they sell in cans. Good protein them bugs, if you're still squeemish, just try to think of them as itty bitty pieces of crab/lobster meat.

Can't make everyone enjoy them, but anything is tasty if the recipe is good. Escargo comes to mind as well.
Smythe at 05:55 AM JST - 21st October

Agree with you Triplee88 for go back a few thousand years & it is amazing that we are alive & produced by parents that made it through life, but when one reads timorborder's post ONE has to wonder even more.
zidane_head at 11:42 AM JST - 21st October

entomophagy can save the earth

just think if people ate locusts instead of beef. ill eat anything as long as its not moving
tclh at 12:55 PM JST - 21st October

Insect is not bottom of the food chain,grass is .Mao soldiers during the long march to escape from Chiang kai Shek ,had to eat grass ,tree barks...insects were a luxury.
Zolt at 02:55 PM JST - 21st October

I think I'd rather starve, thank you very much...
silverwind20 at 05:09 AM JST - 23rd October

Hmmm. . . I'd eat a bug if it was put before me, yep. . .
anonymouswoman at 05:18 PM JST - 23rd October

HonestDictator, yest stir fry them and really yummy.in our country when i was young, we eat insects and some bugs, frogs too that grow or stay in the rice fields are clean, my grandmother and mother stir fry them. it is really good. nowadays, it's hard to find those edible bugs and insects. but in some restaurants, they still serve those kind of food....try and you would want more, just don't look at what you are eating....hehehe
telecasterplayer at 11:25 AM JST - 27th October

Locusts are honest. They gather in fields where tasty rice is produced..

Yeah.. unlike those lying, no-good, grifting, lazy, shiftless grasshoppers.