WILD NEW JERSEY: Jill's Pick from Around the World: Eat the Beetles (With Special Bug Recipes!)

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WILD NEW JERSEY: Jill's Pick from Around the World: Eat the Beetles (With Special Bug Recipes!)

Jill's Pick from Around the World: Eat the Beetles (With Special Bug Recipes!)

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From National Geographic: Bugs are things we normally try to keep OUT of our soups and salads. Maybe that’s the wrong attitude. In many parts of the world, insects and worms have long been a cheap source of protein. North American and European cultures are really the only ones that have abstained. ”Insects are a vast and varied food resource,” says professor emeritus Gene DeFoliart of the University of Wisconsin, who for years kept up a website on entomophagy –the art of insect eating. With our planet packed with people, and limited land space for agriculture, he says, “we in the West should stop laughing at the idea of consuming termites and mealworms and crickets.”