Poll: Would you be willing to eat insects as part of your regular diet?

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  1. I think I’d rather just become a vegetarian, but who knows. Maybe I’ll unknowingly eat something and think it’s okay.

  2. I eat shrimp, lobster, crawfish and other unsavory water bugs, so it could work if prepared properly or as a supplement / ingredient.

    Hell, the French will drown it a heavy garlic cream sauce and charge $79 for a plate of bugs. You know they will too.

  3. Definitely not surprised by Italy. I wouldn’t say I’m a picky eater, definitely more willing to try new things than most people I know here, and I’d never eat insects.

  4. So they didn’t bother to tell people about carmine dye? Red dye used in lipstick and food (sausages, marinades, bakery goods, toppings, juices, sweets, etc).

    It’s crushed cochineal insects and their eggs. Don’t worry it’s not an artificial food colouring but a natural one.

  5. As ingredients who cares, we eat all sorts of weird ingredients. I don’t think I could bear the texture of exoskeleton insects but I would probably eat larvae or worms without problems.

  6. If it gets the same amount of rules and checks in place as other food products I wouldn’t mind at all eating even whole insects. It has to taste good enough to give it a spot in our diet though.

  7. If you wanna know why Mexicans say yes it’s because we already eat insects as ants or grasshopper in some regiona, so nothing new

  8. Mexico, sautéed grasshoppers. Not awful. Tasted kinda like if grass could sweat and a lot of crunch. I mean have you seen how lipstick is made? Loads of cosmetics use what’s called “cochineal” which is basically mashed bug paste for added color.

    Regular diet? Nah. Id go vegetarian though if I had to change protein source. If it was a matter of survival though then I don’t have much choice. Hope I stubble across from preferred native dishes with the local bugs I guess lol

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