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Cricket's a l'orange - 6/8/2008 10:06:26 AM

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/2008/06/03/pass-the-land-shrimp.aspx?GT1=38001

i know it's a cultural imposition that i look at bugs in a way that would never allow me to see them as scrumptious morsels of food but to make an argument for them to become the main course for economic and health reasons? It is never going to happen in the land of beef and chicken

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RE: Cricket's a l'orange - 6/8/2008 10:14:06 AM

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Interesting.

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RE: Cricket's a l'orange - 6/8/2008 12:12:03 PM

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Interesting.

Before I go on, I'll have to admit to being one of the pickiest eaters you will run across.

I have a few gray areas, but I saw a documentary about African Natives eating a certain kind of insect. It had to be cooked in leaves because it had sharp hairs all over it's body that would tear you up. The leaf would heat up and the pointy hairs would be pulled into it when you unwrapped it. Looked like corn husks but not sure they had corn there.

Little kids will eat bugs, and their own shit if you let them. This is a learned reaction. In fact my Dad won't eat shrimp because it is a bottom feeder. But I like shrimp. I used to eat the tails as well. Just like I used to eat peanuts, shell and all.

Insects though ? I couldn't even begin to think about it. However, there is such a thing known as a hotdog.

How is this relevant ? If you knew what was in hotdogs you would never eat another one. But let me fix that. I found out what was in them and I refused to eat them or balogna for years. I have changed my position on that.

When you have a hotdog you are eatring eyeballs, eardrums, testicles, gross internal organs, and who knows. Whatever is not yet sold goes in there, possibly even some bonemeal. Sounds gross right ? But when you eat ground up eyeballs from an animal that could see, you are getting nutrients for your own eyeballs. the list goes on, all the supposedly nasty crap they put in there is actually good for you.

If they did a comphehensive study on the mineral content of foods, I think hotdogs would do quite well. But they don't. I started looking for that many years ago, the only thing with any information at all I found was the USDA website, and it only gives the content of a few minerals, while 24 are recognized as essential for life.

So I have a solution, freeze dry them, grind them up and form them into pills. Not really much different than what they do with hotdogs.

Freeze dried chicken cartilage has been proven to be so effective against arthritis that it has been hushed up, and tight. If I have knee problems in the future the first thing I will do is to buy or build an apparatus for freeze drying. Then I'll have me some chicken, then I go to work on the bones.

All that is needed is to make the bugs into a palattable form for people.

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