It's Time to Eat Some Bugs!

It's the right thing to do!

I mean, the United Nations has figured out that raising and butchering cows, pigs and sheep takes up most of the world's farmland. And it also makes 20% of the gases that create global warming. (Plus, it’s pretty cold-blooded to kill intelligent animals just because they taste good.)

As for insects and other bugs, they are great nutrition. Raising them creates hardly any greenhouse gas and takes hardly any space. Plus, bugs can grow to colossal sizes in the tropics…and they eat almost anything! (I’m talking about meal worms, grasshoppers, and locusts mostly...but even scorpions are pretty good!)

So why aren’t we already eating bugs? Because people in western countries get grossed out by it! This, despite the fact that 1,000 different kinds of bugs are eaten in 80% of all nations.

Dutch bug expert Arnold van Huis is an expert on this stuff, and he admits that for some people, “psychologically we have a problem with [eating bugs]. I don't know why, as we eat shrimps, which are very comparable.” Totally; shrimp are just big sea bugs!

Top photo by William Neuheisel,

scorpions by Claro Cortes.