If there weren’t already enough reasons to avoid eating grasshoppers and other insects, a story on the San Francisco Chronicle presents another: lead poisoning. California residents from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have been found to have high levels of lead in their blood, and one of the likely exposure pathways is consumption of grasshoppers […]
Waiter, You Forgot the Fly Garnish for My Soup! – Insects as Food
At the office lunch table a long while ago, the subject of eating insects came up. One of my colleagues became nauseous just thinking about eating an insect, and I didn’t feel too good either. Although I am a vegetarian, I have no ethical problem eating insects—they are below my “line” (i.e., “you gotta draw […]