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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Polyvore on July 02, 2012, 11:31:52 am
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I am looking around for more tribal food and I came across insects. They look sustainable and cheap to make, so I was going to start a superworm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superworms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superworms) farm!
Does anyone here eat bugs? Anyone with any ideas on how to breed them successfully enough to feed a human?
I am thinking of having a small handful each day, if it's sustainable. Cut their heads off so they stop wriggling, and think of them like green beans.
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I can't face eating bugs. I sort of tried eating raw dead maggots but since they had fed on wood-shavings, judging from the tin, they were tasteless plus, on a psychological level, I associate insects with cowpats and similiar things they congregate near, so it was difficult for me to eat them.
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I am trying to find ANYTHING that is relatively high fat, easy to breed, but it is actually quite hard. Superworms seem to be the highest fat insects out there, and the rest with similar profiles have breeding difficulties.
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Insects are an interesting topic. I was watching something on discovery channel the other day. They were saying how 80% of the worlds population has historically consumed insects as a regular part of the diet. I think a lot of us (especially in America) forget that this was a big part of our prehistoric diet. It's very hard these days i would imagine with all the pesticides, fertilizers, etc everywhere. I suppose wild foraging in somewhat unpopulated areas wouldn't be bad. I have no idea what kind of insects people eat though =) I know people eat ants, worms, caterpillars, etc.
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I remember watching a video of a guy who eats loads of insects... I think he farmed his own crickets? That is something I'm interested in... I don't know how FatRich they'd be but..