Our HuffPoster here seems to think that we need to trade in our bacon cheeseburgers for a heaping plate of possum, scraped fresh off the road, a lovely spring mix of weeds, and a side of grasshoppers in order to save the environment and more efficiently use our planet's "dwindling resources." 

The HuffPo piece was inspired by, what else, a New York Times article looking at the fact that the US doesn't have bugs in it cuisine outside of a few trendy high-end restaurants, unless you count shrimp and lobster.  The piece follows around a guy who tries to get chefs to put bugs in their menus.  Our HuffPoster quotes the guy pushing the bugs,

David Gracer, a connoisseur of bug-based cuisine, told Najame, "Insects can feed the world. Cows and pigs are the S.U.V.'s; bugs are the bicycles." Way to get us eco-weenies to board the bug-eating bandwagon; who doesn't love bicycles?

Is it time to start chowing down on some of those crawly critters we instinctively prefer to stomp on? The Feral Forager, a self-published 'zine excerpted in Sandor Katz's The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, rebrands pill bugs as "land shrimp"; grasshoppers are "surprisingly tasty and filling" and taste "something like popcorn"; crickets, "incredibly high in calcium and potassium." Roasted grubs make a fat-filled protein snack that, again, tastes "a lot like popcorn."

Suck it, Redenbacher!

Those aren't nasty bugs crawling under that rock, those are land shrimp!  May want to go back to the drawing board on that one, I don't think its gonna sell.  But this one is the best,

But the Feral Foragers don't draw the line at eating insects; some of them go so far as to cross the (yellow) line in their pursuit of alternative food sources. As members of a North Carolina collective called Wildroots, they're what Katz calls "Roadkill Radicals" -- enthusiastic advocates of peeling "dishonored victims of the petroleum age" off the pavement and converting them into "food which nourishes."

As the Feral Forger notes, "picking up roadkill is a good way to get fresh, wild, totally free-range and organic meat for absolutely free." Finally, a silver lining to our car-crazed culture.

Hey man, I ain't no redneck, I's a pro-gressive!

The only thing that I could see eating that could conceivably fall under what this guy is talking about is dandelion greens, which are kind of a PA Dutch thing I guess, even then, they're usually served with some kind of bacon dressing, so it defeats his whole purpose anyway, which is to alter human behavior and make Americans accept less prosperity, eating dandelion greens is nothing that wouldn't have been done anyway.  I haven't had dandelion greens actually, guess I'll have to find a Dutch kitchen that serves them and see if they're any good.

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