Will your next burger be ground-up mealworms?
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/20/will-your-next-burger-be-ground-up-mealworms/
Having watched Survivorman a lot (I have been interested in survival since a kid, though seldom put any of my knowledge to test/use) I believe that the right bugs might actually be quite tasty when prepared properly. Still, I figure I have to be in a position of eat bugs or starve to death before I give it a try, so it is only of academic interest to me at this point. My father told me when he was taking a survival course (he was a Naval officer being sent to Vietnam) he found a cricket on the first day, but wasn’t hungry enough to eat it, so stuck it in his pocket. A couple of days later when he got that hungry it seems the bug managed to escape, so he never got to see what it tasted like.
I wonder at the food conversion efficiency of the bugs and if they are any better than fish. Fish, according to my research for aquaponics, can routinely turn 1.5 lbs of food into 1 lbs of fish (there are reports of some people able to get 1.1 lb of food to produce 1 lb of fish, so the above should be considered highly feasible). Eating fish is widely acceptable and, as has been proven extensively, fish can be grown in very high density, so unless these bugs are able to be more efficient than fish I really think this article is more about sensationalism than anything else.
