People Eating Insects and Bugs - Wild Food School / FORAGING Times

EATING BUGS! Eating Insects! Shock Horror!

Bugs and insects are eaten as part of the regular diet by around 2.5 billion people across the world. Many, many, more eat insects on an occasional basis.

Although reviled in the west - mostly because of their appearance - and connections (some) with disease, plus destruction of crops, many insects are highly nutritious and SOME even taste really good when prepared properly. Others, to be perfectly honest, don't make it into the yummy books, and you are truthfully better orff not bothering with them. However, the BEST ones are really good.

Because many insects are high in nutrition, and have a small production footprint (compared to conventional sources of meat such as beef) it makes some sense to consider insects as a potential source of 'farmed' human food in the future, or possibly as replacement to expensive feed grain as animal feed.

Entomophagy is the technical term of eating insects and bugs, and with the impending increase in world population the United Nations FAO has begun to focus in on insects as a potentially valuable source of edible protein, fat and minerals for the future.

Wild Food School runs short courses dealing with all sorts of aspects of eating edible insects. For more information check out the website: http://www.wildfoodschool.co.uk

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[wildfoodschool]

Once you can get your head around that notion that creepy crawlies (many are admittedly ugly) are disgusting and simply regard them as food the fear factor goes away. Some aren't particularly tasty I have to admit. When I first started out with ed. bugs I remember thinking 'Who am I to be sqeamish when billions of people in other parts of the world happily mucnh on them?' and popped the first one in my mouth.

[wildfoodschool]

Pleased you liked. I'd agree, some bugs are fiddly, but I've found some are really tasty. Escamoles are brilliant, while I also have a soft spot for deep-fried crickets and bamboo worms. The red Pygoplatys bugs at the start of the video is one of the worst things I've tried... even having removed legs, wings etc. the whole thing takes like a mouthful of exoskelton without any meat. Small mealworms are a bit too small to be bothering with I think too.

[NatHypocracyService]

I think I'll just stick to chicken, beef and other 'normal' things.

MY choice.

However there is an agenda underway to get everyone in the west eating this stuff , which this video is part of.

No thanks. Don't want it. MY choice.

[nya5517]

ugh this video is kinda weird in a way i didnt expect this at all

[S0XF0X]

I really wish there were bug markets here in the US. I've had the usual meal worms, crickets, and scorpions (yum!), but I'd like to have more choices. Thanks for posting!

[HumanBugfood]

Very good video, I shared it on my facebookpage. Is the western world ready for this, time will tell.

[TheLonelyImmortal]

I've never had any "ick factor". I want to try them :) But I'm from the USA and I don't know of any place to buy these for any good price (being a novelty seems to increase their price, where I've found them online in candy).

[ABetterT0M0RR0W]

very informative, thanks for the upload about this western culture taboo.

[rnr5682]

The Hell's Angels consume a tremendous amount of bugs

[noonoobaggins]

Very interesting video,

I find some to fiddly, like removing the wings and the spine on it's belly of some beetles I had last year. Mind you much better than a "Christmas Brussel Sprout"!.

Thanks for posting Marcus.