Tastes like chicken? Think again–edible ants have distinctive flavor profiles
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Unless, of course, they force it via policies and "incentives", and market-brain-wash people to death, and force it down our throats combined. Which they most likely will. Why live the money from yet another crappier product but with huge margins, on the table?
why? I think it might if mentalities change... We are already happily eating bug secretions as coatings on top of our candies (like on jellybeans, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEkKwOWZS_E)... Also don't forget about honey.
You probably could make fake hamburger meat out of bug powder to get them started.
True. Some fish and crabs are also poisonous unless you know how to eat them. (I've been told some parts of the puff fish and blue crabs are poisonous)
I ate a worm from a Monte Alban mezcal bottle last week.
What I found was wholesale protein prices hit a floor and don't get really cheap, including amino acid combinations. Which makes sense really, farmed cockroaches make chicken feed after all. I was looking at dry prices/100kg, which excludes anything 'premium' be that fresh or much up the food chain. But the price floor wasn't as low as I expected.