Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs?

Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by djackson on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @11:17AM (#2868607)

Don't you end up eating the digestive system of the bug along with the rest of it? The sticking point for me is not that the animal is a bug, but that I am eating its waste. Never having eaten bugs, I'm not sure how exactly this works out.

When eating shrimp and lobster, you are typically eating the processed muscle mass (and shell, if you are into that), rather than the whole animal in one bite.

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Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by icyhandofcrap on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @02:00PM (#2869389)

Typically wild insects meant for food are allowed to eat flour or corn meal for a couple of days in order to flush their digestive systems of whatever they may have been eating before. This isn't as big of an issue for farmed insects.

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Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by djackson on Thursday August 11, 2011 @03:13PM (#2874308)

It's not about what they eat, it's about what it becomes in the digestive system.

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