Some cultures eat insects & there are very likely many insects that get processed in our food that we are not even aware of. So you see a bug in your muffin & you go all nuts - what is that all about? Isn't it just another form of meat? We eat cows/beef & some cultures think that cows are sacred & would not eat the flesh of bovines. Shouldn't we just change our paradigm - sorry about that reference I guess I've been reading too many 90's management books!
2006-07-03 08:22:49 · 11 answers · asked by kathymc7719 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
You raise a very good point. It's our culture, that's all it is. How we are raised, our belief systems, what our parents did and what they 'trained' us to do. If we lived in another time, like say we were in a concentration camp we would be very happy for the protein that we would get from eating the bug. But we generally are not starving and have been told all our lives that bugs are gross. However we love lobster and crab and they technically are bugs. It's just all in your thinking. I freak out if there is a bug in my food. But I love me some lobster!
2006-07-03 08:29:27 · answer #1 · answered by sunnydayzd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like anything our subconscious tells us are gross, bugs, gross or not, are disgusting to most of us because of our mental programming. Some people have actually formed websites and magazines advocating eating bugs in the US (do a search) and there are, as you said, many tribal people (like a tribe some friends of mine are missionaries to) that eat bugs as a staple of their regular diets. I think though that additionally, bugs to us symbolize filth, dirt, disease and germs because most of the typically eaten bugs crawl amongst such stuff. Just because something's good for a tribal person doesn't mean that those of us who have full access to a wide range of clean food should be inclined to like it. We have choices wider than theirs - why willingly eat what might get us sick? Just a thought.
2006-07-03 15:30:32 · answer #2 · answered by SandyTmpa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in North American culture eating bugs is not okay. It is a sign of a dirty kitchen to us. There is no need to "change our paradigm". There is nothing wrong with not wanting to eat bugs just as much as there is nothing wrong with not wanting to eat cows.
2006-07-03 15:28:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Each culture has its own standard of what is good to eat and what is not. The pilgrims weren't too keen on lobster at first - looks kind of disgusting. Now it's quite an expensive delicacy.
2006-07-03 15:30:42 · answer #4 · answered by Jason 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True we eat insects every day. Just check out the FDA's list of allowed parts in tomato sauce and oj. (Kinds with pulp are allowed a lot more). But no one wants to eat anything looking at them, and its just gross anyway.
2006-07-03 15:27:45 · answer #5 · answered by hipichick777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's considered unsanitary, the insects that are usually edible are usually prepared in a way to make them such. They don't know where the particular bug has been!
2006-07-03 15:27:28 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ jojo ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ITS IN THERE HEAD AND THEY THINK OR MICROORGINISMS THATS THE WAY AMERICAns were brought up
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if you go to somalia they wouldnt get this question they can eat shitttt
2006-07-03 15:28:04 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tHE FACTORY COULD BE PRODUCING FOOD WITH FLIES FLYING AROUND OR SOMETHIN LIKE THAT
pLUS BUGS CARRY DISEASE AND HAVEN'T YOU EVER SEEN INSECTS AROUND BOWEL B4?
tHAT'S THE BEST ANSWER I GOT
2006-07-03 15:33:17 · answer #8 · answered by abadrichgirl3322 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bugs are gross and I'm american we like hamburgers and hot dogs not snails and grasshopers!
2006-07-03 15:26:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
different cultures.
2006-07-03 15:37:06 · answer #10 · answered by thehundreds 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋