<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:37 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Nearly all bugs are edible: our stomachs know what to do. But to make them palatable requires a great deal of skill, some of which is yet to be discovered, skills which will eventually be distributed via the internet.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"></p></font></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I think you're overstating the case. A lot of insects require minimal preparation, e.g., light roasting or a little seasoning. And the skills and knowledge are already readily available on the 'net. Google entomophagy. And check out <a href="http://girlmeetsbug.com/">http://girlmeetsbug.com/</a> . Also, the practice is already common in many parts of the world. It's just not common in the "first world".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Obviously some people will have a hard time getting over their lifelong insect-revulsion conditioning, but I don't think it's necessary to get everyone on board.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div>
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