#entomophagy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #entomophagy, aggregated by home.social.
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Acceptance of entomophagy among Canadians at an insectarium
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35288-w
#HackerNews #Acceptance #of #entomophagy #among #Canadians #at #an #insectarium #insectarium #entomophagy #Canada #insects #foodinnovation
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“Every few years when Udonga montana, a bamboo-feeding stink bug, erupts in massive swarms, the people of the Mizo community in northern India don’t reach for pesticides. Instead, they look for baskets.
Locally, this small brown stink bug is called thangnang. Outsiders see them as an infestation but in the bamboo forests of Mizoram state this small brown bug has long been woven into the food culture.”
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Casu marsu, the cheese with worms in the Sardinian tradition
– insects at the table have jumped to the news, thanks to new regulation on novel food. (1) But precisely in Italy – where the Ministry of Health has hired a prudential position towards ‘new foods’ – …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiandiet #entomophagy #Insects #Italia #Italian #ItalianDiet #italiano #italy #larvae #novelfood #Pat
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2379166/casu-marsu-the-cheese-with-worms-in-the-sardinian-tradition/ -
Casu marsu, the cheese with worms in the Sardinian tradition https://www.diningandcooking.com/2379166/casu-marsu-the-cheese-with-worms-in-the-sardinian-tradition/ #entomophagy #Insects #Italia #Italian #ItalianDiet #italiano #italy #larvae #NovelFood #Pat
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Adding to my #entomology library - "Edible Insects - A roadmap for the strategic growth
of an emerging Australian industry", from CSIRO (AUS national science agency)...lots of interesting info, including costs-of-production for various sources of protein and the history of #entomophagy among indigenous peoples. -
Speaking of eating insects, I recently found this fascinating article about eating flying ants - chicatanas - in Mexico.
A long practised tradition, and something people really look forward to!
https://latinamericanpost.com/life/mexicos-gourmet-ant-trend-sparks-global-culinary-fascination/
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"Recent efforts to encourage people to eat insects are doomed to fail because of widespread public disgust at the idea, making it unlikely insects will help people switch from the environmentally ruinous habit of meat consumption, a new study has found."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/25/eating-insects-meat-planet
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"Opposing insect-eating has become a symbolic way to protest EU environmental policies, express scepticism of and hostility toward Brussels, and villainize political opponents. Closer inspection reveals that the conspiracy theory underlying such opposition has much older and more sinister resonances."
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Why Eating Insects Is an American Tradition
Both #NativeAmericans and colonists enjoyed fried cicadas, grasshopper flour, and insect fruitcakes.
by Mark Hay April 2, 2018
"In just over five years, the apostles of insect eating have moved #entomophagy in the Unites States and Europe from a Fear Factor sideshow to a regular fixture in food industry trend lists. These entopreneurs, dozens of newly minted bug farmers and cricket-laced protein bar hawkers, built their culinary foothold through compelling arguments about nutrition and sustainability. #Crickets, for example, provide leaner protein than animal meats, require minimal feed and water to rear, and produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions per pound. These claims may be overblown, but they’re effective.
"Common wisdom holds, however, that the industry still faces one major headwind: culture. While the vast majority of the world has some history or current practice of insect eating, Europe and America, many insect eating enthusiasts and experts claim, do not. In the absence of precedent, we’re primed to see eating creepy crawlies as loathsome.
"There’s a little problem with this common wisdom, though. America does have a history of insect eating. Native communities across the modern United States developed culinary traditions around dozens of insect species, from crickets to caterpillars, #ants to aphids.
"White settlers and other newcomers ultimately denigrated these traditions. But well into the 19th century, they occasionally participated in them, or formed limited insect-eating cultures of their own. In some communities, insect eating remained relatively common well into the mid-20th century; a few continue today.
"The origins of these foodways are not as well documented as the development of, say, cakes or bagels. But we do know that by the time Europeans and other newcomers encountered American Indians, many had highly developed insect harvesting practices. In the 19th century, the Shoshone and other Native communities in the Great Basin region formed massive circles and beat the brush to drive thousands of grasshoppers into pits, blankets, or bodies of water for mass collection; they then roasted them on coals or ground them into flour. The Paiute and other groups out West dug trenches with precise, vertical walls around trees, then smoked out caterpillars for regularized, large-scale harvests. Some Paiute communities around Mono Lake in California reportedly organized their calendar around the life cycles of certain larvae, as well as other types of small game such as rabbits or lizards.
"Some of this insect eating just made practical sense. Grasshoppers were thick on the plains during average seasons, and in heavy swarm years, a plague of hoppers-turned-locusts could blot out the sky. Into the 20th century, lumberjacks in Oregon claimed that caterpillars were so plentiful that, during their month-long feeding season, the sound of their crap falling from the trees was like an unending sleet storm. Harvesting this bounty was a time- and energy-efficient way of gathering protein.
"But in many communities, insect eating was not merely a matter of survival or convenience. American Indians with plenty of other options for hunting or harvesting collected insects as a delicacy. A mid-20th century account of the Cherokee in North Carolina notes that they dug up young cicadas, removed their legs, and fried them in hog fat as a treat. Sometimes they baked them into pies or salted and pickled them for later. They also apparently loved roasted #cornworms and yellowjacket #grubs, which were hardly as convenient to harvest as a locust swarm."
Read more:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-eating-bugs-america#TraditionalDiets #EatingInsects #CatalpaWorms #CatawbaWorms
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CW: insects
"Schizodactylus monstrosus or the maize cricket, is a species of large, robust cricket found in Asia."
"These crickets are a favourite food for many tribes in Arunachal Pradesh."
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Latest episode: Crunch Time — Insects Are Not Going to Save Us
Even the people farming insects have little interest in eating them.
"If you go to industry events or you go to to big academic conferences like Insecta in Germany, ... there are companies that have booths set up where they ... Oh, you can sample a cricket cookie or whatever. But then at the meals, the food is just, you know, beef and a plant-based vegan option."
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Latest episode: Crunch Time—Insects Are Not Going to Save Us
Fear not: you probably won't have to eat the bugs.
Dustin Crummett , executive director of The Insect Institute, reckons all the puffery behind edible insects to save the planet is just blowing up a bubble. For a start, very few farmed insects are eating actual waste food.
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Articles like this make me warm to a plant based diet.
Can You Eat Cicadas? | TIME
https://time.com/6968973/cicadas-food-how-to-catch-clean-cook-eat/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
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First-ever permanent bug based restaurant launching in London
#edibleinsects #entomophagy #alternativeprotein #food #sustainability #crickets
https://londonlovesbusiness.com/first-ever-permanent-bug-based-restaurant-launching-in-london/
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Alginate-spirulina bubble tea, green chocolate with Grasshoppers, spicy cashews with crickets and spring rolls with mealworms. It takes some prep, but we had great fun teaching kids about sustainable protein sources for a tasty afternoon at the MAS museum in Antwerp.
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Consider me VERY intrigued! https://www.crunchycritters.com/product-category/buy-edible-insects/ #bugs #entomophagy
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"Insects find their way onto Italian plates despite resistance"
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Singapore to approve 16 species of insects to be sold as food.
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Looking forward to some insect based meals. 🙂
"SINGAPORE – Foodies here may soon get to chomp on insects in eateries, or as fried snacks and protein bars. Also on the menu: silkworm cocoons.
Sixteen species of insects, such as crickets, silkworms and grasshoppers, will receive the green light from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) for human consumption in the second half of 2023."
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The Singapore Food Agency is working to allow insect based foods to be sold in Singapore.
"Most of us squirm at the idea of eating critters but, as a food-crazed nation that has tried and loved many strange things, is this really a bridge too far to cross?"
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/i-ate-a-tarantula-for-dinner-once-it-wasn-t-so-bad
