EU approves eating ze bugs - bans US bread additives

[Zeus 6504]

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-insects-climate-change/a-64503440

https://www.retaildetail.eu/news/food/europeans-now-also-allowed-to-eat-cricket-powder-and-small-mealworms/

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The European Commission declares new insect products safe for consumption. So from Tuesday, powdered house crickets and the small mealworm will also be allowed in food.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/

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It's not just potassium bromate. A range of other chemicals and substances banned in Europe over health concerns are also permitted in the U.S., including Titanium dioxide (also known as E171); Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) (E443); Potassium bromate (E924); Azodicarbonamide (E927a) and Propylparaben (E217).

 

While I agree all these chemicals in US food should probably be banned, I don't think eating ze bugs is the answer.

Also bugz aren't kosher so I definitely won't partake.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680136/

I don't think ze bugs are very good for human consumption in the long run.

 

[DoobieWah 1477]

Ze username checks out. 

[Chopper 17380]

2 hours ago, Zeus said:

While I agree all these chemicals in US food should probably be banned, I don't think eating ze bugs is the answer.

Also bugz aren't kosher so I definitely won't partake.

Is it an either/or proposition? IOTW can we not eat bugs and not eat big chem's output?

[Js1 85929]

What day do we eat bugs? 

Tuesday is already reserved for eating birds.

[Hermanator 7326]

Humans (and prehuman humanoids) ate bugs for a hundred thousand + years. It was a major nutrient source that without it humans probably don't exist today. Humans evolved to eat them so I doubt any health issues would arise from it as long as they're not tainted. 

I just can't get myself to do it. The closest I've gotten is "agave salt" with mezcal. It's ground up powdered agave worms mixed with salt and other spices. 

[DoobieWah 1477]

After inhabiting the Americas for some 15,000 years (and counting), we have found "literally" hundreds of thousands of artifacts used in the hunting, butchering and eating of game animals, AND the cultivation of certain plants, but no one, no one ever, found an artifact associated with pulling the wings off a cricket. 

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