Eat bugs, save the world
I've never willingly eaten a bug. I'm not opposed to it and if you threw of bunch of large insects into a pot of heavily seasoned boiling water, it wouldn't be much different than eating crawfish ... but I still get the willies thinking about it. David Gracer wants Americans to get over those adverse reactions and embrace bugs just as they have the hamburger.
It's no secret that raising livestock like cattle and pigs cause an extreme burdon to the environment. 18% of global greenhouse-gas emissions are due to our appetite for mammal meat. Even emissions from transportation worldwide are not this high.
Bugs on the other hand require very little water to raise and have plenty of nutritional benefits. Water bugs, for example, are a great source of iron.
Though there is very little commercial bug farming done around the world, David Gracer is trying to change that by encouraging people to seek out more sustainable and earth friendly foods. I figure if there are ways of making tofu taste good, it has to be an easier task to make a tasty hot dog from caterpillars.
[via: mirabilis]
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