Comments on: More entomophagy in the news

By: Kaimialana

Kaimialana — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:48:22 +0000

This is tasty news!

By: phantommidge

phantommidge — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:13:10 +0000

You know, I want to do a teen program on bugs as food since the summer reading them is bugs (yay, me!!)….but I am trying to figure out what the legal ramifications would be if a teen ate something that caused (or that they CLAIMED caused) an allergic reaction…

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:16:10 +0000

Not much helpful content in the above. Clearly, anytime we eat we run the risk of contracting something unwelcome, but the writer did not advocate deliberate starvation. Then, “insects can have something that we don’t even know of yet” doesn’t have much point. Shall we reject a whole category of food because of what it MIGHT contain? Maybe that’s how Koalas roll, but we humans can expect higher standards for ourselves.

By: valown

valown — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:42:19 +0000

Great, lets cut down all the trees, collapse fish stocks, cause a myriad of other ecological problems and then go after the bugs. It’s a wonder we’re all still here.

By: Paul Mohr

Paul Mohr — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:36:01 +0000

Interesting, however the introduction of a new food source includes all the problems that other sources have. Veggies can have odd e. coli . Meats can have BSE. Birds can have H5N1. And insects can have something that we don’t even know of yet that can be a complementary molecule or Plasmid or Phage or chemical compound or mixture which is even worse. I will continue to crawl around in the tree and eat my eucalyptus leaves until they start serving cockroaches at the drive through. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala
The balance of nature finds it center, if it moves from it’s center it will likely just move back there anyway.