No one's forcing you

There is a literal global organization trying to do just this.

There is a literal global organization trying to force us to eat bugs?

Could we please not discuss ridiculous conspiracy theories on hn? Reddit is already infected with qanon an the like, we don't need that rubbish here. Thank you.

Ya know, red food due for most of the 20th century was ground up bugs...

The only reason we don't do it now was that it's kinda expensive compared to lab made dyes.

RIP Ocean Spray Mauna Lai juice drink. the ingredients list on that opened my eyes to the red bug food coloring conspiracy

Also some people are quiet allergic to cochineal, like life threatening anaphylactic shock allergic.

You already eat crabs, crayfish, shrimp, and honey. Asian peoples also consume many other insects as food, which reduces the demand and price for Western food.

There’s a world of difference between eating an insect and eating honey though.

Not much between a cockroach and a lobster though

drown it in butter and whos gonna know the difference?

Has the shell, legs, head, intestine and organs been removed from the cockroach so that only the meat is left? I would like to see the machinery needed to replicate the edible part of a lobster abdomen (or tail as it is called) in a cockroach.

The part that people generally eat on a lobster is the muscles of the claws and the muscles of the abdomen. The rest is generally discarded. It similar to how most people don't tend to eat the hair of cows, but rather the meat from cow muscles.

I would claim that it is actually a large difference between eating a cockroach and a lobster.