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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => Hot Topics => Topic started by: TylerDurden on March 07, 2014, 05:10:10 am
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2574622/Anyone-locust-pizza-worm-taco-Meet-student-eats-INSECTS-stay-healthy.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2574622/Anyone-locust-pizza-worm-taco-Meet-student-eats-INSECTS-stay-healthy.html)
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Is there a source of human-grade, organic insects in the US? It's something I've thought about trying. I'd probably freeze them first though or at least refrigerate them so they don't squirm.
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Is there a source of human-grade, organic insects in the US?
I'm one step ahead of you: http://edibug.wordpress.com/where-to-get-bugs/ (http://edibug.wordpress.com/where-to-get-bugs/).
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I'm one step ahead of you: http://edibug.wordpress.com/where-to-get-bugs/ (http://edibug.wordpress.com/where-to-get-bugs/).
Thanks! Have you tried them? I've heard they have a nutty flavor.
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Thanks! Have you tried them? I've heard they have a nutty flavor.
Never tried any insect. I'm drooling over rhinoceros beetle larvae right now! I **apparently** have a low level of "cultural aversion" to eating insects! LOL
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Our ironing lady hails from Ilocos province and they have beetle season where she goes home to eat beetles.
They also sell ants eggs on a regular basis in their markets in Ilocos Norte.
Maybe I should get those ants eggs sent to me on a more regular basis to get insect meat.
Tummy bug: Mr Bickerton said: 'Heart disease is caused by high cholesterol and the only source of cholesterol is saturated fats. Studies show that insects have significantly less saturated fats than other animal meat'
The author of this article hates saturated fat.
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Just make sure that you know what the insects have been fed on. The notion of eating of eating flies which routinely visit cowpats and the like does not appeal, for example.
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If the cows have been exclusively grass fed during their whole life and born from grass fed mothers as well, then the flies eating these cowpats, would be fine... :)
The main problem I see is flies are fond of dog shit, and dogs are fed all kinds of junk. No wonder dog shit dreadfully stinks!
By the way, I had my first batch of bee brood yesterday. I had eaten it only once before and it was coming out from a fridge, nicely conditioned in a neat plastic box.
This time the beekeeper had just left it for me in the open on an old wooden box in front of his gate. :o It looked like scrap and when I saw it I thought: “Whoah, all those larvae, it’s so disgusting… anyway I finally got it after all these enquiries and driving, I’ve got to proceed, here, right now! Close my eyes and crunch into it!” It was not bad, and I ate the wax along. I was in a village’s street, front of houses and perhaps that’s partly why I dared not to spit the wax. Maybe I also dared not to eat the larvae without the wax and realized too late that this wax didn’t taste good. It took me some time to understand that the thing should be chewed like a chewing gum to extract all the crunched larvae, which have a juicy and sweet taste, after which the wax should be spat. That’s what I finally did.
So, if you happen to get some bee brood, you’ll know directly that the tasty stuff is the larvae and not the wax! When I came home and put the stuff in my fridge, two larvae had fallen off in the cardboard box that I used to transport it in my car. I wasn’t disgusted anymore, so I ate them. Sweet! Hopefully I’ll be able now to eat other kinds of larvae without being repulsed by an irrational disgust… ;)
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I've not had the opportunity to eat bee brood, but have eaten maggots off wild deer carcasses and eaten beetle larvae I've found while gardening or poking through rotten logs out in the woods.
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I'm sorry but I am not eating any animal that feeds on other animals' shit. Call me a prude but there are certain limits I won't cross in life such as coprophilia, bestiality and paedophilia.
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Locust is actually kosher if anyone cares.
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If the cows have been exclusively grass fed during their whole life and born from grass fed mothers as well, then the flies eating these cowpats, would be fine... :)
The main problem I see is flies are fond of dog shit, and dogs are fed all kinds of junk. No wonder dog shit dreadfully stinks!
By the way, I had my first batch of bee brood yesterday. I had eaten it only once before and it was coming out from a fridge, nicely conditioned in a neat plastic box.
This time the beekeeper had just left it for me in the open on an old wooden box in front of his gate. :o It looked like scrap and when I saw it I thought: “Whoah, all those larvae, it’s so disgusting… anyway I finally got it after all these enquiries and driving, I’ve got to proceed, here, right now! Close my eyes and crunch into it!” It was not bad, and I ate the wax along. I was in a village’s street, front of houses and perhaps that’s partly why I dared not to spit the wax. Maybe I also dared not to eat the larvae without the wax and realized too late that this wax didn’t taste good. It took me some time to understand that the thing should be chewed like a chewing gum to extract all the crunched larvae, which have a juicy and sweet taste, after which the wax should be spat. That’s what I finally did.
So, if you happen to get some bee brood, you’ll know directly that the tasty stuff is the larvae and not the wax! When I came home and put the stuff in my fridge, two larvae had fallen off in the cardboard box that I used to transport it in my car. I wasn’t disgusted anymore, so I ate them. Sweet! Hopefully I’ll be able now to eat other kinds of larvae without being repulsed by an irrational disgust… ;)
When I ate mine, I would scrape the comb with a large spoon, and the brood would be scooped up. Wax often reused over and over again, hence the darker colors of some old waxes, and is often then not really that tasty as compared to virgin waxes created by the bees. Here, often the foundation layer is plastic, and the bees build up the walls of the comb from that,, which makes it easy to scape against,, thus returning the frame intact back to the bee keeper to replace in the hive for the bees to clean up and start again.
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I'm sorry but I am not eating any animal that feeds on other animals' shit. Call me a prude but there are certain limits I won't cross in life such as coprophilia, bestiality and paedophilia.
Yeah I don't think there is any such animal. Perhaps horses and camels? I know that goats and cows get very interested in dried bird shit at times. Good source of phosphorous and protein. Poultry can live off of cow shit and this makes for the best damn birds and eggs you will ever eat. Ultra colorful eggs. Ultra vibrant colored flesh and fat.
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Poultry can live off of cow shit and this makes for the best damn birds and eggs you will ever eat. Ultra colorful eggs. Ultra vibrant colored flesh and fat.
Aren't the birds actually eating the bugs in the cow shit, though?
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Those are the cherries on top and the main thing they are usually going for, but they are still getting plenty big mouthfuls of shit along with the bugs. they are also certainly not by any means above eating manure in the insect free times of year either. I have read that pigs prefer fresh pies that also have not yet had time to grow bugs.
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I have read that pigs prefer fresh pies that also have not yet had time to grow bugs.
Pigs are not as picky as birds, though.