Everything you Need to Know About Eating Insects

With a growing world population and diminishing resources, we explore the sustainable option of edible insects.
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[@WayneStakem]

I started off looking up watching videos on breeding roaches to feed to my tarantula because it's so expensive to buy live-food from the pet store. Now I'm here considering breeding and eating some myself.

[@cassiecollie-yote8218]

Omg same here! I want to start breeding feeder bugs for my tarantula and I!

[@kybeastmode]

are magots considered food source for humans?

[@colleen7537]

HUMANS have a natural avoidance to eating insects. Are you people even human? If so, you're out of your FRIKIN MINDs.

[@stikkykeyys1059]

@@colleen7537 Almost 1/3 humans eat insects lmao, thats more people than use youtube.

[@catenjoyer2114]

Good for you!

[@ChrisSmith-bb1dq]

People eat shrimp, crab, and lobster all the time. Thats just a water bug. C'mon people.

[@kol628]

+Chris Smith lol

[@astralacuity]

+Chris Smith Exactly!

[@SpiritOrb-tm8gf]

+Chris Smith And taste very similar

[@kol628]

See, someone understands!

[@enragedseaurchin8629]

Yea I went to one of them bug museum

[@sahrayasmin8534]

finally the hakuna mattata is becoming reality 😂😂

[@idontcare-sf1vb]

Sahra Yasmin omg😂😂💀💀

[@facundoquevedo3686]

Im fucking dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@malcolmxraw1342]

Aint gonna lie, timon n pumba made that shit look good

[@manyartofficial]

haha...lol

[@manyartofficial]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aV7Vi3mKpK2Nrbs try watching this

[@lajh100]

I tried grasshoppers before and they're actually pretty good but the cockroaches and worms are a hell no for me

[@notmyworld44]

During the warm months, a tray of bird seed dampened and placed under a porch light will soon be full of meal worms. You have to keep the seeds wet.

[@marshallsprofile2489]

Why is everyone offended by the idea of eating insects? It offers more culinary variety and takes some weight off of factory farm meat production. Why can't we use insects, nuts and mushrooms for protein and leave large animal meats out as a special treat like we already do with lobster and shrimp? I feel like the main problem people here are complaining about here is that this doesn't solve population problems, which is retarded because it helps in so many other ways, why should not curing the world of its population issues be a big enough reason to just give up on bugs? Just adopt, bring no more than one child into the world, or abstain from having kids all together ON TOP of eating alternative sources of protein. God damn.

[@anwarsuffih6914]

+Marshall Vail Actually, people are very scared about the unknown.

[@marshallsprofile2489]

Bob Marley Eh, yeah.

[@colleen7537]

Marshall Vail um, because humans have a healthy and NATURAL AVERSION to eating FRIKIN INSECTS!! Wow, how easily brainwashed are you all??!! Enjoy your sub human new order diets and agenda, stay away from us regular sane humans.

[@leeannalbritton8478]

I am American where we don't eat bugs but I tried these before and it was not nasty at all I ate some Silk Worms before and it was good and I am the type that would try to eat anything

[@mikemichaels4500]

@@colleen7537 Hell yeah! Factory farmed meat is the most natural and healthy food choice. It is what our early ancestors ate.

[@doodelli]

Guy in video: The word that describes bug consumption is- My brain: *h a k u n a m a t a t a*

[@onev2455]

I am extremely optimistic about this. I'd have nothing against grilled locusts for dinner.

[@ancientegyptian1841]

Onev I

[@tablefor2.online351]

Locusts are kosher!

[@andresterrazas855]

They are pretty good in tacos

[@colleen7537]

Onev enjoy your new world order programming and diet, you've fallen in line and they greatly appreciate the loss of your mind to their agenda.

[@bobsonbobbybobson6888]

@@colleen7537 wth

[@emy1975]

My mom said they eat frogs when they were little. They get them from rice fields and when cooked they taste like chicken. I guess if you grew up eating them you get used to them. So children should try different foods.

[@leeannalbritton8478]

I ate frog meat and turtles before and it was very good the frogs is just like chicken and turtles taste like fish and I tried deer lamb goat squirrel before also he right about frogs is normal to eat here in USA I remember my dad friends would catch them and cook them and plus I also ate Cow tounge before from Mexico

[@cjchillax1771]

Yo frogs are banging trust and rabbits my cousin cuaght a rabbit one day in nc taste like chicken as well

[@tobykd2022]

Not bugs. Bad for humans

[@TheTubeTempest]

it will be cool when we have food printers where we shovel in worms and it prints out delecious filet mignon

[@Rawsawn]

+TheTubeTempest YES ! finaly someone thinks outside the box ;D If you cant replicate bacon you aint doing it right ! Same goes for Cola you need a healthy replicant that tastes the same, but good luck on either anyhow =(

[@TheTubeTempest]

Rawsawn im going to try eating mealworms today. Hopefuly they have a nice taste of their own.

[@Rawsawn]

TheTubeTempest And?

[@TheTubeTempest]

Rawsawn I have only tried them dried. They are good they kind of taste like pork rinds. My dogs likes to eat them but they have to be blended or they cant digest them fast enough and come out whole.

[@karenangala7231]

I like the way you think, sir

[@wangtie9602]

OVERPOPULATION IS A CURSE, MUST DO SOMETHING BEFORE IT BECOME TOO DIFFICULT TO CONTROL.

[@ThisGuy8964]

Ez solution, bomb countries

[@FrancisR420]

So we had to do something a few hundred years ago? You know before it was out of control

[@solenopsis1]

We need someone to save us Someone to save us all At a cost? What Cost?

[@solenopsis1]

THANOS

[@colleen7537]

Overpopulation is a lie. Gimme a break with that globalist rhetoric.

[@suliallen]

slimy.. yet satisfying !

[@minervacuervo4662]

I'm from Mexico. Just to clarify, we eat beef and chicken like everybody else but in some small communities and mostly not urban ones is normal to eat insects, when well cooked with a good sauce and in a tortilla they’re delicious. I’ve tried crickets myself and as long as you don’t look at the little legs they taste great. So fellow Americans please give it a try,

[@colleen7537]

Minerva Cuervo UM, NO, I WON'T. I still have my critical thinking intact. You've appeared to have lost yours to this sick agenda.

[@RaDiUx44]

colleen reneé Critical thinking? Lol you’re brain dead and need to read a book about nutrition.

[@floralsnake2504]

Nop

[@leeannalbritton8478]

I am American and gave it a try I got crickets comeing in the mail I did try Silk Worms and it was good was not nasty and I ate Cow tounge before also and it was good and I also love Mexican food also

[@BadgerGirl777]

NO!

[@dandcc9192]

the problem is these people are selling insects at like 5 dollars for 20g or something to line their own pockets. They only think short term. Either that, or farming insects IS that difficult. Either way, the problem is not really the consumer acceptance that we think insects are disgusting. If someone succeeds in making it commercially viable to sell grasshoppers for $4 per 2kg, hell anyone with an open mind and shortage on cash will adopt grasshoppers to their regular diet one way or the other. When there are enough people eating it regularly, their acquaintances and friends will soon follow. As it is now, it is way too expensive, not too repulsive, to become mainstream.

[@nautilus2612]

They are expensive because all the burden of farming them is on a few people, and the market is still small. If people accepted and welcomed insect consumption they would be the cheapest type of meat.

[@aaronheinz7200]

Entomophagy is amazing. I love salty toasted mealworms. People population is growing and recourses are decreasing. This is the way to go

[@colleen7537]

Aaron Heinz you've lost your mind.

[@bobsonbobbybobson6888]

@@colleen7537 how

[@nobodynothingberg4886]

Bobson Bobby only Africa and India are having a massive population growth, leave eating bugs to them while the west advances farming and enjoys steak and vegetables

[@bobsonbobbybobson6888]

@@nobodynothingberg4886 I never said anything about population growth. Plus, eating bugs is more nutrient dense than meats and poultry. Us westerners eat garbage compared to them.

[@nobodynothingberg4886]

Bobson Bobby no proof eating bugs like a primitive tribesman is better than meat. The most dominant groups in the world did not catch dang flies all day

[@PaulLeach123]

In order to transition this to society, we’ll have to do what we do with other meat...remove any association we have of it with the animal it came from. Steak doesn’t look like a cow, chicken breast doesn’t look like a chicken and so on. It’s just something we call “meat” which is completely disassociated with from where it came. Insects looks exactly like insects. Most people are off put by eating a whole fish for the same reason. To transition to insect protein acceptance, the first step is to do what we do with all meat, prepare it in a way that it doesn’t look like the animal it came from

[@vuk8550]

Valid point

[@Hexsyn]

Everything I need to know besides which insects I can eat and how to prepare them.

[@tatebarnum731]

at my grocery store they were sampling ground up insects and they werent bad they mix with oatmeal which sounds like a great idea for athletes. im having trouble finding it tho

[@leeannalbritton8478]

I order insects off EBay to try and it was good

[@evanmiller2570]

sure dude have parasites be stupid

[@rabsaque]

I want to eat insects so bad but i don't know wich are the safe ones to eat besides wood worms, my girfriend says is not safe to eat them because they ccarry parasites and things, i find one worm on a potato the other day, i was alone in my house so i fried the little guy and eat him, crunchy and slimy bus amazingly gooooood!!!

[@PrecociousSloth]

I was reading something about how humans are so distant to arthropods/insects, (in comparison cows, pigs, chickens, etc.) that a lot of the parasites and viruses that affect them, would not affect us. It’s the same idea where humans get extremely sick from E. coli but cows and pigs are just carriers and unaffected. It would be interesting to research that further! (But I don’t mean that you should be the guinea pig for that research lol)

[@colleen7537]

isaac gomez don't be an idiot, it's UNHEALTHY... THAT'S the reason normal humans are very opposed to EATING FRIKIN INSECTS!! Insect diets for humans is pure, disgust propaganda!!!

[@jimmydyurko]

Just cooking them properly will kill parasites. Its not complicated.

[@platinumchillheart3044]

@@jimmydyurko true

[@cosmicjungle1264]

Actually, what we really need to do is do regenerative farming as well as insect farming, then make feeds for our animals from insect proteins. Then we can have extremely high-quality meats while improving the environment and increasing topsoil/water retention and nutrient density.

[@camoblamo365]

I seriously can't wait to try this stuff

[@pragmatic7green]

cleanly-raised freeze-dried ground up into powder which is then mixed with : spices, whole grains, brown rice, skin-on-potatoes, avacodo-oil, beans, 100% whole-grain gluten-free-flours- ground-up-cassava, turned into healthy tasty affordable foods for all

[@evanmiller2570]

bot

[@sawdust6148]

This video truly shifted my perspective

[@GraemeMarkNI]

Good camera work: made them look tasty :)

[@ege1993]

1:04 I tried not to die..

[@Vinny339]

Me too

[@spacemanmike9]

Same

[@DarkAgeDan]

Agreed. I like chocolate covered crickets.

[@colleen7537]

DarkAgeDan are you pen pals with your sanity, since it abandoned you?

[@PeppermintSwirl]

As a last resort, if the human population climbs up to its maximum, and insects and bugs become rare, will societies begin to look to cannibalism as a last resort?

[@TheTubeTempest]

TheWilliamMaster eventually we will be able to make food from non organic material. the same elements in food are in rocks we just can't rearrange them the right way yet.

[@Troacoli]

+TheWilliamMaster Well, I don't think the human population will grow indefinitely. It will level off and or drop eventually.

[@juliusmaehlich3138]

Peppermint Swirl . I think that will happen. No more funeral parlours, corpse immediately to the butchery.

[@maurorivasferreiro5584]

just noticed that they putted worms as insects... they're not

[@menilakataraseefluppenimia6970]

+Mauro Rivas Ferreiro Those are mealworms.

[@MeiMei-ht9oe]

Agree

[@pigjinbrute9399]

Yes

[@catenjoyer2114]

They are mealworms tho they are insects

[@Proutprutproutprout]

Hum I wonder if it would be possible to grind them into type of flour and make gnocchi or pasta out of them...

[@atlantastark9470]

+Elodie Coquillat thinking about it... I would think so. Worth giving a try.

[@hatemkhrouf8955]

+Elodie Coquillat Already done , search for "insect flour"

[@RattieRae]

+Elodie Coquillat Check out a book called Man Eating Bugs. Pretty sure there's some info in there. It's got lots of info about eating bugs as well as a lot of recipes. :)

[@astralacuity]

+Elodie Coquillat That sounds like it could be a good idea. Though I'm not sure. I think there are some issues with losing the nutritional value of proteins when processed in such a way.

[@hatemkhrouf8955]

James Hansen James it's already sold , just search for "insect flour"

[@mattsanimations6751]

One problem with some insects(like mealworms) is that over time, you can develop allergies to them, it happens all the time to people who breed them.

[@veen88]

Have any research done on this...? Any article link?

[@burner887]

am I the only one who was mind blown when she just, out of nowhere, made a tortilla out of crickets? I don't know, I just wasn't expecting that haha

[@aye3678]

Here I am trying to order some insect snacks to try, lol!

[@vereinfacht8967]

It’s been 6 years, and the PR department for bugs as food is still floundering.

[@DROIDFARM]

Now over 8 years and the story has not changed.

[@cn19707yxz]

I would kill myself if all the food was insects

[@colleen7537]

Adre Pat yours is the first sane comment ive seen on this disgusting video!

[@oBseSsIoNPC]

Shobhita Soor is such a beautiful genius.

[@caterpillar9300]

captions😂👌👊love this i watched it at school

[@holyfnshet]

When I was a kid I would go to this Chinese restaurants all the time. 1 time I saw on the news that the ceiling caved and cats in cages fell out of the ceiling. I'm not gonna lie that was some damn good Chinese food id try the hell out of some bugs here.

[@juliashenandoah3965]

Shrimps are in fact nothing more than underwater bugs, and most people say cockroaches and mealworms and other insects taste like shrimps. Could be a cheap and more interesting and exotic Shrimps alternative to spice up Instantnoodles and Asian food and fish plates and other highly exotic food :D mmmh! Nothing tastes as good as Ramen - the more exotic the better. Maybe I can get some mealworms sold as tarantula food in a pet store to give it a try! Imagine Thai-Coconutsauce-Rice chicken or fish with shrimps and mealworms spiced with Teriyaki sauce, or Nissin Soba ramen with fine salty shrimps and mealworms, now that`s something new and exciting and delicious to eat. I am sure that`s more exotic and delicious food than everything Ignis has to offer in Final Fantasy XV!

[@bahramaghakhan1024]

I live in TO , but unfortunately there’s no such places to at least give us a chance to give it a try !

[@BrandonAmaro]

where can i site some of these sources. I'm writing a persuasive essay on insects as viable food source. If anyone has any recommendation please share.

[@colleen7537]

brandon amaro enjoy your globalist programming. They will love you for spreading their disgusting propaganda!

[@applescript8976]

just had some bugs yesterday crickets are the best. mogo worms are ok....mine are boild. I agree they would taste like chips if they had some nice seasoning. however, natrually they taste fine.

[@minecraftclan6327]

The more insects eaten, the more we all would die.

[@dragunovbushcraft152]

Been roasting, and eating bugs since I was a kid

[@STARDRIVE]

10:54 Glad to see someone grouding them down. As a hamburger patty, they´d sell like hot cakes.

[@MarionetteKazuko]

@sawadikin And what's your rant then about the ones that actually like to eat insects over beef or other animals?

[@ShadowBlack54]

I'm starting to breed a Superworm and hoping It to be successful so that I can add it to my diet and nutrition, Yeah Protein FTW!

[@christiangonzolaz5797]

Question?: Can you get bugs "worms" from eating bugs "worms"?

[@eddieleong6490]

It is waste conversion to useful substances. Food wastes, plastic wastes, glass, wood, metals, paper, etc. Most of our waste need not go to landfills. I am planning with others in Africa on recycling plastic, food and organic waste to useful substances...construction bricks, tiles, compost, insects. Extending that to feeding farm livestock (poultry, pigs, fish, goats, etc). Eating edible insects is yet another avenue. Insects eat food and plant waste. Great recyclers and imposing a much lighter imprint on our world. For Africa, my motive is to help the Poor and Hungry. Making profits is essential for business survival and sustainability. However, the focus is to Feed the Poor. House the Poor.

[@peterlyons2000]

what type of cricket did was this chef using? Any experts out there that could identity the species or country of origin?

[@rossbob4215]

Eh, I wouldn’t mind. There’s some I kinda wanna try lol

[@Mercenarys]

Every person talking about eating bugs starting to have yellow faces, I'm sorry but I can't lol

[@singerfromhell666]

51% gas is from cows! But still a lot of good info! thanks

[@skylahenry8552]

as a vegetarian who has had trouble getting enough protein, im considering this

[@evanmiller2570]

why not eat meat? you want parasites?

[@evanmiller2570]

you buy into this kill yourself for the climate mess?

[@kirstinetermansen3426]

In Scandinavian I think before 2 ww the industry farming poised and the add market of Right food, trends foods. Before I think insect as small snakes, frogs as in France, gecko or spiders was often Children snack or collected food if no farm, snail or frogs still famous in France 🇫🇷

[@benbrown8258]

I don't think I have a problem with eating properly prepared insects. I am curious though how do they clean fecal matter out of insects? Or do they just cook them with it in the digestive tract of the insect and let us eat the whole product. That I don't think I'd like

[@lamichealporter3986]

And some crickets too please

[@rockstarbop]

I hope this becomes mainstream before 2050

[@roseswitzberg2002]

I would try them

[@peterlyons2000]

embracing this now would be big a move as buying 100 shares of Microsoft common stock, right around the dawn of DOS 3.3 to 5.0 upgrade. We live close to a valley full of fine restaurants and international students. Market is already there. Gonna start with mealworms and move up.

[@cjchillax1771]

How aboutplant based diets ?

[@streamdungeon5166]

I've tried some insect cooking and loved the mealworm pasta I had. On the other end of this whole matter, only penalizing human overbreeding will ever seriously change anything.

[@tomreviews9668]

I believe in everything said in this film, and would love to start an insect farming business. However, my hesitation would be how do I find regular customers to support my business?

[@catenjoyer2114]

A website

[@catenjoyer2114]

I’m excited for you remember to have fun aswell!!

[@veen88]

In Local Gym.

[@KSATica]

I'll go............. straight vegan before eating insects as my last resort. I guess the geniues who made this video didn't think about vegan food,fruits salad etc..... Beans and rice is all i need full of fiber and carbsI will survive.

[@dovstruzer3610]

YOU NEED VITAMIN B12,THAT'S FOUND IN EGGS,FISH AND MEET

[@edwinearlowens1630]

I like this out side the box

[@kathrineprescott]

I really don’t think I could. It physically makes me sick and lightheaded to think about eating insects…

[@evanmiller2570]

it should we are not insectivores. Parasite city among heavy metals and actual anti-nutrients are in bugs this is for the coming dystopia. Nothing actually healthy is pushed anymore.

[@juansotelov2868]

Biblically the wise John the Baptist lived of insects and wild 🍯 Good information to know what insects to eat when denying the I'd chip by force thinking it wisely our Lord Jesus was baptized by greatest prophet

[@aye3678]

I am 100% behind this.

[@jgr7487]

according to the UN, we'll never get to 10 billion ppl

[@goldendreams8577]

Yes, Corona Virus depopulation!

[@amariah922]

THEY KNEW IT💀

[@gon9684]

I hope not. Resources and pollution is already what it is, I hope we can get it down to 2 or 3 billion, never more... Still, would love to eat insects like that...

[@cteckinz]

Hello, Can anyone suggest a certain type of insects for farming and health? :) I just wanna try it over here and make it work :) THANKS! :)

[@RosyBibliophile]

Tomáš Stec - Mealworm seem to be the easiest. :)

[@mattsanimations6751]

RosyBibliophile Yeah, I breed them for my gecko, they are super easy to keep.

[@colleen7537]

Tomáš Stec don't be ridiculous, this is propaganda. Humans have a normal aversion to eating insects because it's UNHEALTHY AND DISGUSTING AND DEMEANING!!

[@catenjoyer2114]

Mealworms are super easy when you make the website can you send me the link my phone number is 15169965212

[@joshuamoore6818]

Like in the animal kingdom, animals will eat bugs as supplement when game is short. Those nations that eat bugs have no choice

[@FizzBricks]

I am 10 years old and love to eat insects. Went to Bugsgiving with my dad. They were good.

[@catenjoyer2114]

I’m ten as well bugs are truly amazing

[@baaldiablo8459]

I'm also 10 and think bugs are fantastic! So tasty sweet!

[@damird2240]

I don't like what i am saying but the more i'm here the more i see that most people don't understand just how much are their values influenced by culture.

[@jasonhenn7345]

So I'm seeing prices from 50 to 150 per kg, I can buy tons of prime beef for that, what am I missing

[@ZakM9]

Try mole crickets. They are delicious.

[@thoughtjournal4947]

This is bad math guys. It's still more efficient to eat plants directly than to feed food to insects and eat it. You have to feed crickets 2x the amount that you get out of them. So 200 grams of plants creates 100 grams of crickets. Chickpeas, as an example, are far more calorie dense, which is better for meeting food needs. 100 grams of chickpeas has 364 calories and 19 grams of protein. 100 grams of crickets have 121 calories and 12.9 grams of protein.

[@hellinahalo]

I tried the ranch flavored crickets in the boxes they sell at Disneyland & then the Crick-ettes brand online. They have a better texture than chips & feel like a real protein source. Started buying them for a few months. Dude I would so pay for some fried crickets or bacon wrapped cicadas right now. I can imagine crickets n salsa definitely being a thing in the future for me. Yum 😋. It's natural. Now that I've tried it. The taboo of the whole situation is freakin hilarious. We can all be eating pretty damn well.

[@nativoplantas2003]

Amen

[@thaadimattayya3369]

Im a Vegan. So my transiton cycle is Scared-> Not scared->Accept->Feel->Try->Eat->Delicacy

[@pragmatic7green]

but what about "Impossible Burgers"

[@rajvardhandesai7730]

Tree plantation is really hard as much eating insects🤔

[@cbryce9243]

I want to see more videos like this! :)

[@anonymousmonkey9491]

,maybe i'm just being racist, but i feel like it's mostly european countries and the NA countries that are generally more adverse to insect munching.

[@SlayerHewkii123]

There's actually some pretty interesting history to food culture in the west. Basically, you can blame the old royalty for shifting food culture so much. They only ate the expensive shit, and so the commoners followed suit because it was 'trendy'. Entomophagy used to be waaay more common, but basically rich people messed it up. It's not racist to notice the smaller amount of Western cultures that eat bugs, that's just statistics and stuff.South America, Asia, Australia, Africa, all those continents eat bugs all the time.

[@anonymousmonkey9491]

@@SlayerHewkii123 I blame my caution on this world becoming too PC, and thanks for sharing that info.

[@privatename3447]

The bugs here in the States are expensive

[@PrecociousSloth]

private name I think if it were to become more commonplace in the states, the price would drop drastically. I wouldn’t mind trying those insects shown at that Thai marketplace!

[@johnbrown2163]

I would eat insects to live off the grid. Chef Ramsay approved!!

[@jacobeksor6088]

Montagnard indigenous we eat insects too we collected from our field or in jungle so delicacy children love it, not factory.

[@anders7050]

They keep saying the same thing over and over again..

[@hairywitch4063]

I bet none of these people eat bugs on a regular basis.

[@pragmatic7green]

put/use freeze-dried ground-up cleanly-raised bugs into animal-feed

[@thegametroll6264]

If I were to start eating insects I would try worms first. Grubs, meal worms ETC.

[@markf2720]

great info. can you grow worms in your apartment?

[@catenjoyer2114]

Probably with the right gear :)

[@detaildevil6544]

I hope this trend comes to Europe too

[@pacsoulpavon9649]

When i went to mexico i ate from bugs to rabits, armadillos, snake and iguanas!

[@snack-insects7903]

SUPER BERICHT!

[@Adeel808s]

I have only eaten Woodlice which isn't an insect it's crustacean. Tastes like popcorn.

[@avrielll._]

I wonder now how asmr meat and all become asmr insects :3

[@RattieRae]

I find it hard to believe that they don't feel pain when you kill them. I'm going to read into that.

[@menilakataraseefluppenimia6970]

+SweatPrince Well, you have to electrocute pigs after pumping their coelom with water for pork so...

[@powerballpythons]

Anything with a brain feels pain. So insects, fish, dogs, etc. Bivalves are also animals but don't have brains, but they do have nerves and a nerve cluster. Do they feel pain? I don't know. Plants getting munched on will chemically react to defend themselves and to scar off the damaged parts. Whether plants feel pain or pain in the way animals understand it is unknown. I'm open to the idea of eating insects if it's safe and tastes good, but the way they present facts is bad. For example, the video stated 1 lb. of cricket/1 gal water = 1 cow/2000 gal water. It's more like 1000 lb. crickets/1000 gal water = 1000 lb. cow/2000 gal water. There was no need for them to exaggerate.. That's still a huge difference in water consumption. Also, look into farming cattle on grass with pasture rotation, while stacking other food production onto the same space. Building soil and less greenhouse gasses produced than CAFO'S. Also happier and healthier animals. Meat cows can be good for the environment if you do it right.

[@powerballpythons]

Okay, one more thing. Ranching out West should be done away with. It's horrible for the environment. But replace those meat cattle with American bison. You get an equivalent meat that helps restore historical prairieland instead of cows eroding soil on public National Parks while ranchers get permission to shoot wolves... It's all about what's appropriate in what situation and environment. Heck, ranchers could switch to goats, which would less of an impact out West.

[@Mrshikamaru32]

actually anything with pain receptors feels pain ... cut the leg of someone with Paraplegia and i doubt he will feel a thing except the wierd blood loss.

[@bobsonbobbybobson6888]

@Alex Delashmit not necessarily true

[@venom286__worldoftanks3]

If it taste good I would not be against this at all but I wonder if it has the same muscle building properties as meat. I know its protein and they say its actually better but I would be interested to see how a athlete performs with a bug diet.

[@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574]

how are they killed?

[@pragmatic7green]

and if all humans were governed by logic, science, freedom, fairness, never rewarding bad behavior, never punishing good behavior, ,;,;,;,;,;,;, Respectfully, Freedom-Seeker Pragmatist

[@CarrieGerenScogginsOfficial]

I think that the west will not eat bugs such as these, however, might entertain eating/ farming the land sail that is used in escargot. These snails are farmed in the EU nations, take up a very small space, and are much more palatable.