Recently, there are quite a few articles in the media that call for eating insects. Every time I read them, I lose my appetite for two or three days, especially when eating real insects. The insects mentioned in these texts include ants, earthworms, cockroaches, flies, dragonflies, crickets, cicadas, locusts, beetles, caterpillars, and even caterpillars and maggots.The description of nutrition and deliciousness is so sensational that I can't bear to quote it.As for why the good guy thought of eating bugs, there is an article on a certain website that I don’t know where it was copied from, saying: “In 1999, human beings had passed their six billion population days, six billion people Stomach, ask for food from the earth! In order to open up new food sources, human beings sounded the horn to march on insects."

There are more monks than porridge, which makes sense.It was also reported last week that the number of underfed people in the world has increased to 800 million.But having said that, even if I am unfortunately one of the 800 million hungry people, I would rather starve to death than eat the above-mentioned bugs.Of course I will choose to set myself on fire and use high-grade gasoline to prevent those who eat worms from eating me. Insects are nutritious, rich in protein, and even "contain more than a dozen essential amino acids", I believe in these, but this is not a reason to persuade me to eat worms.What's so rare about protein?There are many on my contact lenses, and I have to use special potions to remove them every day before going to bed.Resist eating bugs because they make me sick, and I guess everyone agrees on this one.

Due to the limited space, there is not much research on the word "worm". In the Chinese context of the year, in addition to the general reference to "insect", the word "worm" was more used to describe a kind of wriggling and tireless insect. A person and his behavior who are good at exploiting and not without sneakiness.For example, "pornworm" and "networm".Before the formalization of the real estate secondary agency market, house rental and sales intermediaries in Beijing were called "house bugs".Professor Gu Gang said Dayu was a worm, which made Mr. Lu Xun very angry.

In short, all kinds of bugs, both physical and metaphysical, can't bring me any pleasant experience except "Zong Er". Starving to death is a small matter, but eating worms is a major matter. Most insects are said to be delicious.In order to promote this object, the New York Society of Entomologists, which has a history of 103 years, recently held an "insect luxury banquet". The menu of the "Insect Luxurious Feast" priced at US$65 per person is as follows: Appetizer: minced meat with wax worms in plum sauce, fried Thai water beetles, fried mealworm balls.

Main Course: Beef and chicken breast with fresh cricket bread. Dessert: insect cookies, chocolate cricket cookies, etc. According to the report, the entomologists dressed up for the banquet ate "with relish and feasted on it" one by one.To be honest, I have always suspected that this is an April Fool's Day news.Even if there is such a thing, it is not necessarily "authoritative" or "guidance", more like a crazy and funny party in the circle of entomologists.However, this "Insect Feast Recipe", which is suspected of being fabricated, fully exposes an important problem of eating insects: most of the insect dishes are fried or pickled.Why?I believe it was to cover up the psychological discomfort.At the same time, the main dishes of the "Insect Feast" are still chicken and cattle, which proves that the prospect of insects becoming the main non-staple food of human beings in the future is very bleak, and at best they can only be an alternative snack.As for "fresh cricket bread" and "chocolate cricket biscuit", because of the lack of details, it is impossible to guess, except that the cricket may not be the first match.

Laomei, who has a surplus of food, seems to have a little bit of "worry about the world first".At the very least, when it comes to eating insects, no one can no longer scorn it as "our country has existed in ancient times".Jin Shengtan said, "Isn't it too happy to be the first" and said: "Xia Qiyue...sweat all over the body, forming vertical and horizontal canals. Put food in front of you, don't eat it. If you want to lie on the ground, the ground will be wet like ointment. The flies came to the neck and attached to the nose again, and they couldn't drive them away. There was nothing to do. Suddenly, there was a big black axle, and the surging sound was like millions of golden drums. Sweeping, the flies will be gone, and the food will be eaten. How happy it is!"

This Mr. Jin is really a slut who doesn't know good and bad, he doesn't know how to enjoy it when he automatically sends it to his mouth, and he says "it's not so pleasant!" In the difficult and difficult living environment, the early people must have eaten insects, and they did not eat less; in the long historical process of fighting against the world, people, and insects, most of them did not stop eating insects. Makes sense.However, after thousands of years of groping in the dark, this matter has not yet become a reality, and it makes sense that insects cannot occupy a place in the human diet.

First, bugs are disgusting.But not necessarily, the shape of the snake mouse crab is even more "nucleated". Second, it is not easy to capture.But tigers are even more difficult to catch, so it's not wrong to eat them anyway. Third, the worms are too small and don't have much meat.In my opinion, this is the key point. In fact, this can be seen from the menu of the "Insect Luxurious Feast" of the New York Society of Entomologists.Even professional entomologists still have to use chicken and beef as the main course.What would a worm eat his head if he was known to be unable to eat anything even he himself was alive?It is nothing more than a layer of carapace, a pair of wings, plus a stomach full of protein, internal organs, carbohydrates, and a few extremely tiny legs.Besides, how can these poor wings and thighs compare with chickens and ducks?

As a relatively mature food among insects, ants are relatively popular all over the world.It is also known as its sweet and flat nature, beneficial qi, brightening, promoting blood circulation and removing stasis, expelling wind and cold, nourishing kidney and liver, strengthening spleen and other effects, but it is just a medicine. When it comes to food, it is mostly used as ingredients or sauces, such as Zhuang people Ant fried bitter gourd, Thai ant spicy sauce, etc.It is also used to make wine.As an independent dish, except for the giant termites that are abundant in Colombia, which is said to be an inch long and fat, and can be deep-fried in the traditional method of the Indians, how to eat these "crushed" things to be enjoyable, People like me who have never eaten real ants except for "ants climbing a tree" have no idea.Unless genetic technology can produce ants with "the thighs of locusts, the eyes of dragonflies, and the wings of butterflies".Ants, however, are fine.The question is, who would dare to eat such ants?

Even the Cantonese who dare to eat any snake are extremely cautious about insects.Outsiders are free to make bold assumptions about this, but Cantonese have always been careful to prove it when it comes to insects. Generally speaking, Cantonese only eat "Chong II": dragon lice and grass worms.Dragon lice, also known as "Hewei dragon lice" or "Hewei dragon" in Cantonese, looks similar to cockroaches, so it is also called "water cockroach", but it is excellent in water and good at flying.The cooking method of this "Cantonese version of Xiaoqiang" is very simple. It is cooked in boiling water, seasoned and air-dried to eat.Restaurants or food stalls, mostly sold as snacks.

The process of eating dragon lice is extremely ugly: first peel off a pair of hard wings on the back, then twist off its head, and carefully pinch the head in order to pull out all the dirty internal organs.Then, he stuffed it into his mouth. I ate dragon lice once when I was young, probably because I was young and ignorant and not afraid of death.But it was just baked on the gas stove, and there was a pack of oil in the mouth, and there was no special taste.As for this way of eating in Guangdong, I have never dared to try it, and I don’t even want to watch it.In fact, many Cantonese themselves don’t know where the “harmony” of “Heweilong” is. Most of the lovers of dragonflies regard it as a folk remedy for frequent urination at night. Compared with "Heweilong", more people like to eat grass insects.The scientific name of Grass Worm is Verrucus, which belongs to the class of Caterpillar Nereidaceae. It is produced in the paddy fields at the junction of brackish and fresh water in the offshore area of ​​the Pearl River Delta. It looks like a pocket-sized centipede. "Shunde County Chronicle" records: "When the grains and rice are ripe in summer and autumn, every time the tide rises or rainy nights, they rush out of the fields and float into the sea. The water surface will be purple and green, and they will become five colors. However, it will not last long until the sun rises and melts." The most common method when steaming eggs with Hechong, the taste of this local dish in the Pearl River Delta is obviously better than that of dragonflies.Luo Tianchi, a Shunde scholar in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem to prove it: "People in Cantonese are naturally addicted to raw fish, and there is no work to make a wok. The soil has always had a strange smell, and the insects are also listed in southern cooking." It is said that potting worms and garlic together can treat beriberi. Therefore, it is not surprising that worms can be served on the dining table in Guangdong, where foot is prevalent in Hong Kong. "Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy sleep to find himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic beetle." It's a cool opener.Bugs are not just the nightmare of that traveling salesman alone, they are a common fear of mankind.At the same time, insect allergy is also a high-frequency disease regardless of ethnic groups. If psychological factors are excluded and only economic accounts are considered, it is absolutely cost-effective to switch to eating bugs.According to expert calculations, human beings have to carry out large-scale breeding in order to meet the source of meat, and at the same time pay huge costs for this.Taking fresh water as an example, it takes seven kilograms of feed to produce one kilogram of beef, which in turn requires seven thousand kilograms of water to grow.A single pig farm in Utah produces more sewage than the entire Los Angeles area.Therefore, gradually turning insects into the main meat of human beings will help maintain the ecological environment of the earth. At the same time, there are many scientists and investors all over the world who want to make insects become the main dishes of human beings in the near future through large-scale artificial breeding. Of course this is not a matter of urgency.However, when I think about the possibility of having cricket bread for breakfast, ant butter sandwiches for lunch, barbecue cicadas for dinner, and worms for dinner, I feel an indescribable loss in my heart.Misfortune comes out of the mouth, this statement is not false. If we can eat less bird's nest and shark's fin, maybe we won't have the idea of ​​fighting bugs today. One look at occasions like the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and you will truly feel that human arrogance and narcissism are expanding at an out-of-control speed. Who will have the last laugh, people or bugs?Will we wake up one morning and find each other turned into beetles, or ants? Tang Xianzu tasted the words: "People look at ants, they are broken into small pieces, and they don't know what to do, and they don't know where to go. They think it's all about living and eating... People in the world presumptuously think about the images of their families, wealth and honor, and don't know the emptiness. Zhongda acupoint. Come and go, where can I go?" We are vermin.