Why don't more people eat bugs?

[Nikia]

I haven't really researched this, but it seems to me that eating insects would be a good moral and ecologically friendly alternative to eating birds and mammals as a source of animal protein. Insects reproduce in large numbers in a short period of time. They pretty much evolved to be eaten. Raising them commericially would take up much less space and food than raising slower growing mammals. I don't think that people could really say that it is cruel to confine or eat them.
Am I totally off base here?

[Deja Q]

1. We will be. After the crash.

Unless Patriot II makes eating bugs not previously approved by the FDA illegal...

[flvegan]

2. Logical thinking, but

humans (mostly) don't eat meat to survive. They do so because it's pleasurable. Eating bugs probably strikes most people as being repugnant, and therefore have little interest in it.

[AlienGirl]

3. They do--just not in this culture

Many, many people in cultures around the world eat insects and arachnids. My co-worker says tarantula legs taste just like french fries.

Tucker

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. They do -- even in this culture.

The FDA allows a certain amount of bug parts per food unit. People eat pounds of bugs each year without knowing it.

:)

[DeaconBlues]

4. No thanks. I think I'll stay a vegetarian.

It has the same ecological advantages you speak of. And I don't have to worry about having cockroach legs stuck between my teeth.

[begin_within]

6. Why don't more bugs eat people?