[ExI] bug eating again, was: RE: tabby's star dimming again

[BillK]

On 25 May 2017 at 18:15, spike  wrote:
>
> Billw, it was a teaching/learning moment for your friend.
>
> Food and our perceptions of the enjoyment of eating are mostly all in the
> mind.  Your friend never suffered one bit of health problems from devouring
> shrimp, ja?  They taste great, deveined or otherwise.  The human digestive
> system doesn’t seem to care what we throw down there; it does its thing.
>

The black 'vein' that is the shrimp digestive tract doesn't contain
anything like human poo. :)
It will be grit or sand grains. If the 'vein' is translucent or
invisible, that means it has been cleaned out, usually by keeping the
shrimps overnight in fresh water.

>
> The notion of eating bugs really warms on a prole once she really starts to
> think hard about how efficient they are at converting inedible stuff into
> questionably edible stuff.  If nothing else, perhaps we can feed the bugs to
> the hogs then devour the hogs.
>

Indeed insects are eaten in many parts of the world. Fried and dipped
in chocolate, mashed up to make paste then fried into cakes, etc.

BillK