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The story is about a club selling insects as phood, but I think the real story is suggested at the end (bolded):

Scorpions, worms and ants on the menu at club (http://reuters.iwon.com/article/20060706/2006-07-06T113348Z_01_N28409647_RTRIDST_0_ODD-LIFE-SCORPIONS-DC.html)
Jul 6, 7:33 AM (ET)

North American Cricket served with pear cactus jelly are displayed on a plate at the Explorers'...
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By Claudia Parsons

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A discerning guest at a Manhattan cocktail party removed a scorpion from its bed of cheese on an endive leaf and popped it in his mouth, determined to savour the taste unadulterated.

"Nutty, sweet," was the verdict of Gourmet magazine food editor Ian Knauer at the recent soiree.

... snippage ...

Rurka said he tries to overcome people's aversion to creepy-crawlies by serving them with something appetizing -- for example a cactus jelly with the cricket, or cheese and sun-dried tomato with the scorpion. He admits he would not normally feast on such creatures by choice.

"This is for sustenance, this is not an every day meal," he said. "The chances are you're not going to be looking for this unless you're in dire straits, and if you're in dire straits, I would suggest you go out and survive."

But he said attitudes to food changed over time and between countries, and with environmental problems and a growing population, the food industry could eventually be looking for new sources of protein, such as maggots or worms.

"I would say in the future our protein source will be different," he said, comparing raising insects to farming battery chickens. "I would say we could raise insects faster, get a better source of protein, control the fat content and have a higher nutritional value."

"I think you're going to see bio-foods," he said. "It's getting over that hurdle; it's hard to put that worm in your mouth."

For the record, a worm pretzel, or worm-zel, is a little chewy but doesn't taste too bad smothered with mustard.

Are we headed into a future of edible insect farms and militant P.E.T.I. groups infiltrating said farms?

A future of scorpion cassaroles and tarantula stews?

Will we need to give up farming large animals because they cost too much to produce?

You'll take my steak from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Well, you can't force people to eat stuff they don't want to eat. But what they're saying is sorta true...insects are high in protein, and there is plenty of them around. At least when people are in danger of starving, food made from insects could save a few lives.

I beleive that we should eat ants and other insects and the like. Don't call me an animal rights activist or some fucktarded vegetarian. I beleive that meat is meat, and meat is yummy, and there is currently a large ammount of meat resources that we could be tapping, but aren't, such as insects (and humans) Yep, to me, protein = protein. therefore, bugs = protein, cows = protein, peopl = protein.:) just my 2 cents.

There must be something to this
Yoko Ono has been living off of 1 dead beatle for decades

You'll take my steak from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.


you keep your tube steak to yourself there buddy. still, not a bad way to die.

Well, you can't force people to eat stuff they don't want to eat. But what they're saying is sorta true...insects are high in protein, and there is plenty of them around. At least when people are in danger of starving, food made from insects could save a few lives.


yeah, I am not sure I find the prospect very appetizing, but if energy and water became very scarce I could see some crazy drastic measures taken if there was no choice but to farm insects.

I beleive that we should eat ants and other insects and the like. Don't call me an animal rights activist or some fucktarded vegetarian. I beleive that meat is meat, and meat is yummy, and there is currently a large ammount of meat resources that we could be tapping, but aren't, such as insects (and humans) Yep, to me, protein = protein. therefore, bugs = protein, cows = protein, peopl = protein.:) just my 2 cents.


lol - fucktarded vegetarian at your service. at it's nice to be labeled so harshly for my choice of diet. don't worry, i get it from everyone all the time... i don't expect tact or anything from friends, family, coworkers or waiters, so why would I expect it from some enlightened individual on teh interweb?

also, don't worry I am not trying to change your diet*




*it seems I have to make this statement preemptively to practically anyone I tell I am a vegetarian too, even though omnivores are more likely to admonish vegetarians for their diet than vice-verse.

There must be something to this
Yoko Ono has been living off of 1 dead beatle for decades


:D lmao!:D

PETI. God, SB, you're brilliant.

lol - fucktarded vegetarian at your service. at it's nice to be labeled so harshly for my choice of diet. don't worry, i get it from everyone all the time... i don't expect tact or anything from friends, family, coworkers or waiters, so why would I expect it from some enlightened individual on teh interweb?

also, don't worry I am not trying to change your diet*




*it seems I have to make this statement preemptively to practically anyone I tell I am a vegetarian too, even though omnivores are more likely to admonish vegetarians for their diet than vice-verse.


My mother and sis are vegetarians. (I call em farters but you'd better not) Im an omnivore. Ive seen the crap they go through trying to get fed anywhere away from their homes these past 30 years. Its much better now than it used to be for them.

You are right of course about us omnivores generally being more likely to admonish youse guys than we are likely to get admonished.
Except for 1 thing.
PETA representatives and a few others have been through already stirring shit up and calling people who eat meat or who even drink milk murderers. If you wonder why you might catch shit for eating only plants remember that somebody has already been through hear clanging bells and shouting through bullhorns that meat eaters are murderers.

Im not saying that painting you with the same brush as militant vegans is right or fair. It is not right or fair. Im saying that I can understand how it can come to pass that a kid could the idea that vegatarians are fucktards if the only ones he's ever really seen have were calling him and everyone he knows murderers.

I like dead animal. I'm not quite so partial to dead insect.

I'm what we call a pollopescatarian. I eat chicken and fish.

I like to tell people I eat animals that are assholes. Chickens are douchebags and fish are too. Pigs and cows, however, are cute :3.

I eat them. If I see one walking down my arm, or something, and I feel particularly peckish, I'll eat it. I also don't mind drinking them with my water when they fall in and drown.

can you imagine how many insects you'd have to eat to get your daily protien requirement?

There's protien AND sucrose in seamen (that spelling looks wrong, but I know what I mean), that doesnt mean I want to drink a glass of it daily (not that a man could manage a full glass)

Insects for breakfast.... honestly

Although they are a delicacy in some cultures.

can you imagine how many insects you'd have to eat to get your daily protien requirement?

There's protien AND sucrose in seamen (that spelling looks wrong, but I know what I mean), that doesnt mean I want to drink a glass of it daily (not that a man could manage a full glass)

Insects for breakfast.... honestly

Although they are a delicacy in some cultures.

Thanks to genetic engineering we can now have grasshoppers the size of weasels. Shetland pony sized crickets are right around the corner if the need arises.;)

Thanks to genetic engineering we can now have grasshoppers the size of weasels. Shetland pony sized crickets are right around the corner if the need arises.;)

pmsl

.... urgh

The story is about a club selling insects as phood, but I think the real story is suggested at the end (bolded):


Are we headed into a future of edible insect farms and militant P.E.T.I. groups infiltrating said farms?

A future of scorpion cassaroles and tarantula stews?

Will we need to give up farming large animals because they cost too much to produce?
I'd rather us move on to a diet consisting of pills. But, I would prefer the genetically modify bacon untill it contains all the nutrients one needs to live.

Thanks to genetic engineering we can now have grasshoppers the size of weasels. Shetland pony sized crickets are right around the corner if the need arises.;)
Yes, but the buggers would be leaping tall buildings in a single bound. Superman woul be made to look like a poser.

Yes, but the buggers would be leaping tall buildings in a single bound. Superman woul be made to look like a poser.

wow... now that's a world I'd PAY to live in - animals in lycra saving old dears and babies from tall buildings?

I'd like to see a cow climb a ladder

Well I ate insects raw when I was younger... don't suppose cokked would be much different!