The Backstory on Bug Eating It’s midday and you’re hungry for a snack Should you grab an apple Crackers Or a crispy fried cricket According to some experts the cricket might be the best option It contains vitamins protein and the healthiest kind of fat 4
Many scientists dietitians and environmentalists agree that using insects such as crickets beetles caterpillars and cicadas to replace protein from cows pigs and poultry is the right thing to do Eating insects is good for the environment economical and healthy It may be the way we all dine in the future Silk moth pupae spin cocoons then are boiled to retrieve and use the silk But the pupae are wasted so why not eat them They are 60 percent protein 5
Entomophagy or eating insects isn’t new Hunters and gatherers ate bugs to survive They learned the best bugs to collect by observing what animals ate Romans and Greeks enjoyed eating beetle larvae that fed on flour and wine The Bible features stories about staying alive on locusts beetles and grasshoppers beetle larvae 6
May bug Early explorers noted that Native Americans made flour out of crickets Paiute Indians would drive hordes of crickets into straw-covered trenches and then cook them by burning the straw Europeans long considered soup made from the May bug a delicacy Some say it tastes like lobster soup 7
