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Are Bugs the Food of the Future? VIDEO,How to Cook a Bug Included.

Green Lifestyle (tags: The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook, Bug appétit, Water bugs have four times as much iron )

Eleanora
- 132 days ago - time.com

In the U.S., we're more accustomed to exterminating insects than to eating them, but in scores of countries around the world--including Thailand, where food markets are stocked with commercially-raised water beetles and bamboo worms--bugs have long been a

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Stephanie Colson (245)

Sunday June 1, 2008, 11:28 am
Eleanora...lol..eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww.

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Linda B. (47)

Tuesday June 3, 2008, 6:35 pm
I've tried to look at this objectively, but I still don't see the appeal - unless it's a matter of eating bugs, or starving. Maybe.

Kendra L. (0)

Wednesday June 4, 2008, 10:01 pm
That would be awesome! When I was little, I read an article on eating bugs and have been interested in trying them out ever since. Especially since they remind me of shellfish, one of my favorite foods! I saw bug-pizza, chocolate covered bugs (no, seriously), frozen bug treats, fried crickets...

Once people get over the eww factor, we would start to see bugs (land-dwelling arthropods) as we do shellfish, octopus, and squid -- which are all from the same family as bugs. It's just that we're used to eating their water-dwelling relatives. :)