Can we eat insects?

insects are a great source of protein. i've gone ahead and ate insects myself like a june bug or june beetle (locally known as 'salagubang'). can't recall what the other insects are but based from what i've read, when faced with an emergency situation in the outdoors like in the forest or in the mountains, it si safer to eat insects over wild plants. anyway, can't comment about what you wrote about hotdogs being made from cultured worms. it is the first time i've read about it but honestly, i don't mind eating cultured worms as long as i know and i'm sure that these are indeed clean. cheers and happy mylotting!!!

i could say yes,because i already ate an insect before in my province and its one of the exotic food in my province,actually that is the big ants that we usually see in the mango trees,people get their houses that hang in the trees and they get those ant's eggs and those babies ants.they fried it and its really delicious.

There is no reason at all that there are not certain insects that we can eat. Now this is not to say that I've ever eaten an insect (and knew about it) because I personally don't find that idea to be something that is palatable. However, if I was to ever visit a place where it was common practice to eat insects, it would be something that I would be willing to try because I like to experience the culture when I have the opportunity to travel.

Some insects can be eaten. Some of them contain lots of protein like grasshopper. But still, in my opinion we better not to. What will the earth be if we eat everything? It'll be vanished sooner. And cockroaches? Nah... I don't think that's healthy.

I've seen with my own eyes people eat fried grasshopers. If you're looking to try eating insects, start with this; grasshoppers are the cleanest, healthiest insects in my opinion. I don't eat them myself,though, lol! To answer your question though, yes, many types of insects can be eaten. People who eat them says that insects are a good source of protein.

I wont be eating them!

I think hotdogs are made from the leftovers of commonly eaten meats. But your point is well taken because the USDA allows so many bug parts and other such contaminants to be present in the food it approves for consumption. But who really knows what we are eating when we buy stuff other people have prepared and handled? Unless we grow it and prepare it ourselves we really can't know. I try not to think about it too much.

I don't believe that hotdogs came from worms. I think that's just a famous myth. I don't also know if I would be able to eat an insect probably because I haven't been in a situation where I am faced to eat an insect. If I were in an exotic restaurant and all my friends would eat it, I would probably eat too.

I haven't eaten insects really. But if I weren't told I was presented insects and I was blindfolded and all I had to depend was the food smell I would probably eat it.

Of course they can be eaten. I choose not too, but it's not particularly strange for people to eat them. As long as the food is properly prepared and is clean (and the bugs aren't actually poisonous), they're valid sources of protein. And I'm pretty sure hot dogs aren't made from bugs. (Honey comes from bees' butts. Just so you know. That's a lot weirder than eating whole bugs.)

no for sure,we cant its like hurting and making cruelty to other insects at its best,its not correct and i strongly oppose it no matter what for sure

The way that they can process food go fetch what they can put in it. But I'm not from a culture that eat insects, I do know that grasshopper are clean to eat but the rest no. I myself even if a bug is clean to eat, like I said i wouldn't eat it I have not been brought up in such a way, to eat everything that moves on the ground when you are hungry, unless you are the starvation point anyway!

In europe,they make candy and treats with things like bees and grasshoppers,and have done so for a long time.A little off subject--I was at a Vietnamese buffet and they had chicken feet there.I imagine if I came on the right day they might have something insect-related at the buffet.As for taste,I have read cockroaches and crickets taste spicy.

Yes. In some countries, most of the people eat several types of insects for a treatment. But i never really seen or heard that cockroaches is cultured to become a meal. No, not cockroach. It's just grasshoppers, sago worms, and crickets.

hot dogs are parts of animals that aren't normally eaten, but they aren't worms... Yes, some people eat insects, even consider them delicacies... I've never done it - at least not knowingly... Crickets, cicadas, ants!!! Midge flies are caught in nets and then fried - considered a great treat in East Africa.

Here there are some dishes about insects available. However, I almost don't eat these dishes. As to the cultured cockroaches, I am so afraid to eat it. But perhaps I would like to have a try if I travel there. I like to try the local food

I can't eat insects.. but maybe I will if there is nothing left to eat... and I hope that thins never happened

at hot dogs being from cultured worms. It reminds me of a dream I had when I was really young. I was walking around our farm near a water source, and then I saw a lot of earthworms. I started picking the earthworms, and then when I picked them up, they would turn into, guess what - hotdogs!!! I guess, like me, you're one of the kids whose parents said that hotdogs are made of earthworms (maybe so we would stop obsessing in them. ) But, I know that is not the case. Most of them are made with beef, I think.

May be people are being too much scientific. And science always looks for fat, protein and other nutrients etc into what ever it comes across. They make farms to culture insects commercially as well. May be the whole earth will be scientific minded tomorrow enough to be omnivorous. There will no obstructions like food culture or food habits in eating food.

i agree with it,so curious,are there some people do it?i can't believe?is it not bad for our health?i am not sure,i don't like it,good luck!