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It takes a lot of land and resources to raise the livestock that a vast majority of us eat for dinner -- methane-belching cows most of all. And personally, I've come across enough passionate appeals from animal rights groups to go vegetarian to last a lifetime, but at least I already eat vegetables on a regular basis. Isn't it taking things a little too far to advocate that we should start eating insects to supplement our protein intake?

We've heard the bug suggestion before, but this time it's coming from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization. Their latest and greatest idea: enhance the presentation factor a little. According to the UN's Patrick Durst, all we need to do is "get the food into a form where someone doesn't have to look the bug in the eye when they eat it." Yeah, that'd be a start. The argument is that other cultures eat bugs and like it, so why can't Westerners?

The short answer -- because they're bugs. Whoever figures out how to make them appealing to people in Europe and North America should win like 10 Nobel Peace Prizes.