Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Why not eat Insects

  

The Idea of eating a bug is kinda creepy to me or was would be a more correct phrase, but after viewing this video it started to make more sense to me that we do eat insects, and they are a source of different nutrion. People who are lost in the woods often may eat bugs to stay alive. It might be because how our soceity views bugs that incourages our disgust and fear of eating insects intentionally. It could also be the way they look to us, almost sinister in appearance, how their near otherworldly appearal could bring our "creeped out meter" to a apex.
   I never personally intentionally eaten Insects but I always imagined it to be foul tasting. But after learning in French class about Escargo and how they act like Sponges by absorbing the flavor of whatever they were cooked in, I begun to think maybe other insects may have similar effects. I also look at how Bugs eat plants as mostly a primary source of food (While some eat the waste or leftovers of Humans) that may make them nutritious sources of food if you think about the saying "You are what you eat". Another example of a person using insects to survive is the man above in the picture who survived in the wilderness of insects only. So personally I may never try to eat insects unless coaxed into it enough.