Locusts for Lunch

[zapatos]

On 5/29/2020 at 2:57 PM, Airbrush said:

However, the idea of eating any insect creeps me out totally.😲

Hate to break it to you but...

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Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 110.110 allows the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to establish maximum levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods for human use that present no health hazard. These "Food Defect Action Levels" listed in this booklet are set on this premise--that they pose no inherent hazard to health.

https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook

For example:

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Nobody wants to find insect parts, rat hairs, mouse poop or maggots in their food. But the Food and Drug Administration does allows low levels of these nasty things along with a bunch of other icky stuff to be present in food, or the ingredients that go into it.

https://www.livescience.com/51123-gross-things-food-insects-mold-poop.html

[CharonY]

On 5/29/2020 at 1:59 PM, iNow said:

So, make them taste like whiskey?

Well shrimps are arthropods that are widely consumed.

[iNow]

I’d have no problem eating them. They’d be one of the less weird teams I’ve ingested