Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Dec 1, 2010
http://www.ted.com Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.
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@angelyne2204 What about the fossil fuels burned to transport all that grain to livestock?
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If you've every eating a piece of bread or a bowl a cereal.. Well.. [^_^] muahahahahahaha!
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Soon the choice will be... eat your neighbor or eat some insects. When you are hungry...which one will seem more disgusting?
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i was happy about my peanut butter :(
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eat some japanesse shit burgers
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what magnifikant talk!
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If some insects really taste similar to shrimp from what I heard, I wouldn't mind eating insects!
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Better drink my own piss as well.
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tell Bear Grylls!
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@rollingklouds You eat insects a Lot more often than you would suspect .
NWforager 1 year ago 22
Screw you locusts! You eat my crops, I eat you!
LudicrousTachyon 1 year ago 4