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		Ygor on Aug 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? Depends on the definition of the term vegetarian. You can go with the "no meat, but fish and bugs allowed" definiton? I wonder why do we, as humans, consider eating bugs strange, and why haven't they evolved as a regular part of the modern human diet? Is it only for historical reasons, social, or is it something physical or biological?

kristofferR on Aug 10, 2011 [–]

"Humans" doesn't consider eating bugs strange, just us westerners do. The only reason for it is cultural.

Eating bugs is very common around most of the world actually:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomophagy

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