Sustainable finger food: maggots

Speaking of slow food, larvae are a truly sustainable source of protein, especially in parts of Africa. As E Magazine reports, lines form around the block for maggot ice cream, crunchy salad, and cocktails at one German restaurant. Stop gagging. Are maggots any more disgusting to eat than mammal meat from factory farms? Insects are hiding in our processed food anyway. The FDA says that 20 maggots per half can or so of mushrooms  won't hurt you. You're already eating insect larvae, so go ahead and use them for bite-size hors d'ouevres.

With organic food at Wal-Mart and local and slow food so chic these days, bugs are the final frontier for green-minded eaters. All it would take is for some eco-conscious stars to fawn over maggots from the red carpet. Maybe I'm dreaming, since there's no larvae lobby willing to sponsor Naomi Watts and her pals. Back to the original thought, E describes how Swiss nonprofit CABI Bioscience and the World Agroforestry Center are working to "promote edible insect larvae as an answer both to food scarcity and the destruction of African forests." Even maggots must be harvested sustainably. Maybe that Dresden, Germany restaurant could cut down on pollluting air travel  involved in importing their maggots from Mexico, and find a closer source?

Comments

[Buy Cialis]

well let me see...OK this is the situation, a zombie plague has stroke the human society, and the only way to survive is run and hide in the moutains, this is the only way that I eat maggots.

[Puma Clyde]

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[Ed from dryer lint brush]

Great stuff man. I`ve been searching for this for a long time. I was lucky with google

[mig]

I remember seeing street vendors in bangkok selling roasted roaches like they were popcorn. This one girl told me she was real drunk one night and ate one. She said it had a strange subtle sweet taste once you got past the crunch of the body legs and all that.. yuck.. a maggot??? well if iran nuked us and we lived in mad max world that is the only way I would ever consider having to eat maggots (no roaches though.. ill take maggots over those).. but for sustainable reasons?? no way...too much, Im going to ralph now.. later.