I read in the DutchNews.nl that a Dutch supermarket group Jumbo is to start selling edible insects from next Friday in Groningen and Haren. I was wandering how many of you would eat these grub? Me ... now I am grossified at the thought of eating them ... yucks!!!
You'd never catch me snacking on those!! There's more than enough food out there for our consumption without resorting to this type of thing.
I don't know....maybe if I was starving. I think we would all be grossed out if we knew just how much there was "allowed" in a commercial operation of any kind that processes out food...now that is gross. Bugs and rodents!
You are totally correct Carolyn. The FDA actually has guide lines on things like 'length of hair' and 'foreign parts' allowed in our processed food. About 35 years ago I met several college students and got to visiting with them. They were just heading back to college after working in various canneries for the summer. I was just getting into gardening then and after hearing what went on in those canneries and, in the food, I was really glad I grew and canned or froze almost all of our food. Our FDA cannot be 'on the job' 24/7 and what idiots can do when the boss is not looking is bad. 35 years ago our son was diagnosed with ADHD. He was on the boarder line for medication. We opted out of meds and the Dr. told me to limit food coloring and, if possible, avoid anything with pesticides and growth hormones. Our 7 acre farm became 'Old MacDonald's farm'. After 6 LONG years he was no longer ADHD. Sorry this post is so long but safe food is so important to me.
That's what started me to grow and save my own food in the 70's. I didn't want my child eating bugs and their poops and chemicals. I have learned since we can't protect our children from that stuff. But I am not willing to be conscious of it. I would rather stick my head in the hole in the ground and not know it. Yuk....
Hmm ... I remembered seeing insects sold in Bangkok as a street food snack a long time ago and my Thai friend commented how can people eat that. My brother-in-law said that it is delicious and he enjoyed eating them.I understand insects as a snack is still easily available there so I guess there must be a some demand for it, like my brother-in-law. If I were to go to Bangkok again, maybe I'll go have a look at it ... eat it? Nooooo... maybe ... I don't know right now! Would anyone of you reconsider after doing more research on it? How about our members in Netherlands, any opinion?
Actually, bugs are a great source of protein.... but, we are not "conditioned" to utilizing them as such. We were served shrimp at someones house not long ago, but I couldn't eat it after seeing the legs still attached.. all I could think was that it looked like and insect... eeeewww!
I can understand what you mean Carolyn, just looking at the pictures of the grub dishes in the internet just turn me off!!!
This is all actually the first sign of our shrinking resources, due to an uncontrollable population explosion (globally speaking). Peak production of oil and gas in many oil rich areas of the world has already been crossed now - So why not food too? I mean, I myself was also wondering, exactly how far will they really be able to stretch it? Therefore we'll in our lifetimes for sure now get to see insects regularly being served on the table - Sugarcoated with lies, that is's all actually better for our consumption. In exactly the same way as they started using sugars derived from corn in the USA - Leading to the massive obesity outbreak in the last 25 years... Meat and milk production also is not properly regulated anywhere in the world (except for maybe in Australia and New Zealand). The sad result of which is that now everybody who consumes meat or drinks milk or milk products - Also gets a load of hormones. Some of which are given to chickens to speed up maturity, and some other stuff given to cows to constantly keeping them in a lactating state. Resulting in some girls starting menstruation at the age of 8 or 9! And some becoming very tell. While boys are (in the last 12 years) become more skinny, weak, and of short stature (and sometimes with a feminine voice and very bad eyesight, with crooked teeth too, a result of an underdeveloped jawbone)... I am not making any of this up, it is all happening around us right now, just wake up and look around people! Do a simple Google search and judge it for yourselves! However many people will not see this. Firstly because this change in our food didn't happen overnight, it took decades. So if a change is brought on slowly, most will not notice it - Exactly like they say that if you toss a frog in a pot of boiling water, he will jump out. But put it in a pot of normal temperature water, and slowly bring it up to a boil, the frog will not notice the change until he is cooked from the inside... So just like that, I now see this as yet another global conspiracy, in which we are all slowly trained into excepting insects as food! Reminds me of the movie Soylent Green: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVpN312hYgU
