Catching and Eating Insects with Entomophagy Expert David Gracer (VIDEO)

Before you call this video gross, or trendy, or sensationalist... watch it. David Gracer, an entomophagy (bug eating) expert gives a pretty good case for making wider use of bugs. From the environmental factors to our own psychological hangups, his ideas are not to be disregarded. In a world of factory farms and GMOs, catching your own eight legged friends could just be the sensible way to go. And chances are you have eaten many bugs before...maybe even every day. And of course I eat like 12 varieties in the video... enjoy.

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Comments

[coffee tea]

05:31 PM on 11/12/2011

Trying to remain open minded. Simply because it isn't a common practice in our culture doesn't necessarily mean we should disregard it as a means of food. Doesn't seem possible to get a full tummy without consuming plate fulls, though. That's about all I could handle for a day. More power to ya Mr. Gracer. That was just plain disgusting..

[Lady Saera]

03:05 PM on 11/11/2011

Maybe its a possibility, but even so, that wont go far before Mon santo will probably change their DNA so they can patent it, rework how large bugs grow so they have more product to sell, make more money, and then when the bugs are large enough, they will eat all of us instead.;)

[amanimal]

11:28 AM on 11/10/2011

Entomophagy may well be in our future. 80% of the world is already there.

http://www.ted.com/talks/marcel_dicke_why_not_eat_insects.html

[straight skinny]

05:30 AM on 11/09/2011

Only for survival during war time-unless it's a chocolate covered ant. That's a
"delicacy" -with a nice snail dinner beforehand of L'Escargot (Snails but of course) :)

"Catching and Eating Insects with Entomophagy Expert David Gracer"

[Alexis Elizabeth Drob]

04:43 AM on 11/09/2011

I will NOT eat bugs....knowingly, that is just a disgusting thing to do. Bugs carry virus' and other deadly diseases...no thank you.

[Kelly Jade]

12:07 PM on 11/15/2011

Do you eat meat or dairy or eggs?

[Kevin Chung Lin]

12:29 AM on 11/09/2011

I would actually like to try them, but definitely not uncooked

[Eggsackley]

12:06 AM on 11/09/2011

We could get to the point of eating bugs very quickly if Yellowstone erupts. It is due to do so rather soon in geological time, that could be five years from now or a couple thousand. The Magma is building up, lakes are tilting. The last time a super volcano that size went off geneticists say the human population dwindled to about 25,000. The real problem would not be freezing temperatures like in the disaster movie, although global warming would suffer a severe setback. It would be world wide crop failures of about two years duration. The ash cloud would subside in about two years. The dust from a regional nuclear war would be lighter and last longer. Growing bugs might come in very handy, but you need fat to digest the protein. And, of course, carbs. Volcanists are monitoring Yellowstone closely, and we would probably have more warning than when the volcano in Washington went off. How quickly can we start bug farms if we really have to?

[JoeDoorman]

08:00 PM on 11/08/2011

Yeah... I want to eat bugs... they've been eating me for decades!

[lp2rao]

05:56 PM on 11/08/2011

I just love the CHOCOLATE covered Ants......... yummmmmmmmmy! :) They are High in Nutrition and they clean out your insides. When you get lost in the jungle, you Will EAT Them or they will Eat you!

[coblstone]

04:43 PM on 11/08/2011

bugs have six legs

[Pennsanic]

04:30 PM on 11/08/2011

Apparently the average person eats like a pound of of insects each year, by accident. Yuck.
Things like chocolate, tomato sauce, and peanut butter can have quite a few "insect fragments" in them w/o getting in trouble from the FDA.

[cvbnm67]

04:14 PM on 11/08/2011

America will have to turn to eating insects. Welcome to the race to the bottom.

[Pennsanic]

04:25 PM on 11/08/2011

C'mon now. A BUTTERfly might be good on toast.

[badger2196]

03:41 PM on 11/08/2011

I was served deep fired scorpion in Beijing once - I just couldn't bring myself to eat it

[orbo]

03:31 PM on 11/08/2011

Oh what a beautiful plate!

[Leefeller]

03:27 PM on 11/08/2011

I remember Yuell Gibbons advertised for graspnuts he used to eat twigs, then he suddenly passed away. As for eating insects, I will leave that to my chickens and go from there!