Another Option

I really love reading the blog Eating Liberally. Last week they had a spectacular recipe for orange vegan cupcakes. It was my first exploration into vegan baking and I was definitely impressed with the results. Other than that, this blog just offers some interesting, well written pieces. Here's a quote from today's entry:

David Gracer, a connoisseur of bug-based cuisine, told Najame, “Insects can feed the world. Cows and pigs are the S.U.V.’s; bugs are the bicycles.” Way to get us eco-weenies to board the bug-eating bandwagon; who doesn’t love bicycles?

I like bicycles. The entry is about eating bugs, the unjust prejudice that Americans have against it, and the ways in which this new diet can solve the world's problems. I haven't been eating a whole lot of meat recently because of everything I've learned about the current state of the meat industry so I did give some serious thought to the bug idea. My serious thought involved imagining myself wandering around the mesas in back of my adobe, trying to find 2 cups of grasshoppers in order to make quesadillas. Interesting... I'm just not sure if I could bring myself to put one of those grasshoppers in my mouth. It would take a while to get used to the texture I imagine...

Are bugs even clean? If I were to pick up a beetle or a worm of some sort and snack on it, would I get some sort of disease? And if they are generally clean on the inside, how do you clean the outside? And do you eat them whole? These are all things that should be answered if anyone wants us to seriously consider eating bugs.

Check out the article. Eating Bugs?