Edible bugs confirmed to be a public health risk due to parasites.
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No, this is a massive fallacy and frankly irrational thought. The difference in disease per capita per bug eating countries and non bug eating countries is insurmountable factually. China is the most prevalent case of this, most se Asia follows as well as Africa. Bugs carry more disease per population versus any other wild protein species period. They also have no nutrient density, when you look at what a bug is the protein is junk protein.
This is a good argument but this still falls under domesticated versus non domesticated. The more variables you can control in your protein and fat source the less likely disease will occur. Bugs even as a last resort don’t have the nutrients necessary to sustain humans. The reason milk became necessary was because of the whey and fat. Bugs provide neither.
The problems with the diseases in bugs is the volume of bugs needed to feed someone. A single cow can feed several people, but it takes a ton of bugs to feed one person. The number of bugs needed drastically increases the chances of one of those bugs having a disease that taints the entire thing.
This is another good point against it. It's the same when they talk about plant based fake meat. They'll talk up all about how it allegedly tastes the same, but I have yet to hear any of them claim it has the same nutritional value.
That's an extremely poor comparison.
1 cow if infected can and will have thousands if not millions of parasites/bacterium/viral loads because of the increased mass present. The size comparison actually works in favour of entomophagy because it can take weeks at most to raise a batch of grasshoppers from egg to full grown adult when compared to cattle that have much longer gestation periods and growth times to reach market value. That increase in time required to reach market value works against arguing diseases in small turnover projects because diseases "want" more time in order to infect more hosts.
How many will you need to raise to feed one person? How many bugs will be needed to feed many people? Then the most important question, how do you deal with the fact that bugs are a terrible source of nutrients?
That's one hell of an emotional response. You're also completely ignoring the fact that a single tainted bug can effectively poison what ever batch it's put into. A single diseased cow can also be easily identified, and then separated from the herd and put down.