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Your aversion to insects is highly cultural. Plenty of cultures, especially in Asia and Africa, treat insects as common foods and even delicacies. You don't h
by harshreality 13y ago
Your aversion to insects is highly cultural. Plenty of cultures, especially in Asia and Africa, treat insects as common foods and even delicacies.
You don't have a problem eating insects if you eat any sort of processed grains. The USDA (or equivalent agency) has distinctly non-zero limits for insect parts and rodent feces in cereal, because it's impossible to economically keep all insects and rodents out of grains.
- __david__ 13y agoI understand that, but by making a Kickstarter in English, they are targeting exactly my culture, which isn't keen on eating insects. And yes, everyone knows they slip into our food supply and there's a non-zero chance that we've all eaten them unintentionally, but that doesn't logically mean I'm going to think, "well, I may as well just start going whole hog now!" This is a novelty and will never make it big in our market because the "ick factor" is just too high (for our cultural norms).
- codereflection 13y agoWe have to start somewhere, right?
- coldarchon 13y ago>which isn't keen on eating insects. which is actually very wrong, because this only counts for the last 100 years. Before that many dishes contained insects or their like. May beetle soup was very famous for example, and dont forget that lobster and shrimps are very similar. Oh and when you brush your teeth, huge part of the paste is made of Chitosan, which is part of almost any care cosmetics. And the word "worm" is very similar in all European languages, which makes us believe they were eaten regularly in ancient times ..