Someday, when 25 billion of us are packed on this rock floating in space, the seas have been denuded of fish, and all the arable land is being used to grow corn and sugarcane to make ethanol fuel for our vehicles, we may have to live on insects.
The Seattle Weekly just did an article on bug cuisine, and interestingly, there’s a guy in Lake City who wrote an insect cookbook in 1998. You can read the article here http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/955089-129/the-rise-of-the-edible-insect and order the cookbook (if you’re so inclined) here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Eat—Bug-Cookbook-Revised/dp/1607744368/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414625720&sr=8-1&keywords=david+george+gordon
Yuck.
Actually, the idea may be useful someday, despite how offputting it sounds. Obviously we can’t avoid overpopulation, given that Republicans won’t let us have birth control or abortions, so with or without drastic population reduction we’ll have to eat bugs because there won’t be anything else to chew on.
Suppose, for example, our species eventually uses its stockpiled nuclear weapons — and I don’t see how we won’t again, notwithstanding the current 59-year hiatus — in that case, scientists tell us, there won’t be much left alive except bugs; so it follows that if some humans are unlucky enough to survive bugs will necessarily be their food supply.
Blecch. I hope I’m not around for that. But maybe you should order the book just to be prepared. Plus, you’ll be supporting a local author. And, if enough copies sell, they might turn it into a movie.