so, how come not alot of people eat insects?

Question

theyre actually healthier than meat for the human (alot of meat is actually pretty bad for you), and theyre really tasty, theyre arthropods like lobster, shrimp and such, so how come theyre not eaten that much in modern society's? theyre eaten in alot of countries, but usually not by people in the cities

yes I know where they've been, in cleaner places than shrimp...and the ones you would be served in a restaurant are raised for that, not collected from the wild

yes I know where they've been, in cleaner places than shrimp...and the ones you would be served in a restaurant are raised for that, not collected from the wild

Answer 1

Personally, because I can't find a reliable and affordable source of them. I'm leery of the ones in my backyard because my neighbor sprays pesticides around his property (same reason I don't eat my dandelions).

My sister hasn't been able to eat lobsters or crabs since I called them sea-spiders. And I do eat shrimp despite they're being them cockroaches of the ocean.

If I could find an affordable source of clean crickets (no - I don't want to raise them myself and no - I'm not eating them from the bait shop) or mealworms, I'd eat them. I love Hush Grubbies and Chocolate Chirp cookies.

Answer 2

I think people only for survival reasons would eat certains kinds of insects. While there are so many delicious foods to eat and while no one in is dire need, insects will be far, far away from the menu.

Answer 3

Here is one reason why..

Poisoning

Pesticide use can make insects unsuitable for human consumption. Herbicides can accumulate in insects through bio-accumulation. For example when government sprays locust outbreaks people can no longer eat them, this may pose a problem since edible plants have been consumed by the locusts themselves. [1]

Cases of lead poisoning after consumption of chapulines have also been reported by the California Department of Health Services in November 2003[2]

Adverse allergic reactions to insect are also a possible hazard.


And also you most likely have eaten insects before!
Here is why.



Unintentional entomophagy

Since it is impossible to entirely eliminate pest insects from the human food chain, insects already are present in many foods, especially grains. Most people do not realize that food laws in many countries do not prohibit insect parts in food, but rather limit the quantity.

Here are examples of food products and their average insect content:
Product Type of insect contamination Quantity
Canned sweet corn Insect larvae (corn ear worms or corn borers) 2 or more 3 mm or longer larvae, cast skins, larval or cast skin fragments, the aggregate length of insects or insect parts exceeds 12 mm in 24 pounds
Canned citrus fruit juices Insects and insect eggs 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml
Canned apricots Insect filth Average of 2% or more by count has been damaged or infected by insects
Chocolate and chocolate liquor Insect filth Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams (when 6 100 g subsamples are examined)
Peanut butter Insect filth Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams
Wheat flour Insect filth Average of 150 or more insect fragments per 100 grams
Frozen broccoli Insects and mites Average of 60 or more aphids and/or thrips and/or mites per 100 grams
Hops Insects Average of more than 2,500 aphids per 10 grams
Ground thyme Insect filth Average of 925 or more insect fragments per 10 grams
Ground nutmeg Insect filth Average of 100 or more insect fragments per 10 grams
Ground cinnamon Insect filth Average of 80 or more insect fragments per 10 gram

Answer 4

I think you need some serious help. If you want to eat insects then you should live like they do in a bile of **** because most of them eat that. How yummy does that sound.

Answer 5

In the American diet, we eat more processed foods and we are not that open minded. I see it on the Food channel all the time but I can not bring myself to eat a grasshopper or a roach. I think it's gross personally.

Answer 6

I not in any respect knew everybody who had to get rid of them earlier, I lived in Hawaii also on a protection rigidity base and they were continually in my homestead, my cat killed countless them, and in Hawaii they kill cockroaches that are the size of small mice, so i somewhat did not favor my cat to kill them. Sorry , i have no recommendations except get a cat.

Answer 7

Thats just nasty....but if you think they taste good eat all the insects you want.

Answer 8

maybe if they started selling them pre-packaged i would try them. honestly, do you know what bugs eat and where they have been?

Answer 9

I KNOW!! HAVE YOU TRIED EATING IT WITH FUDGE AND SPRINKLES I'M SERIOUS!!