Entomophagy: Why Don T We Eat Bags?

Research Experience For my research paper about entomophagy, I found it interesting how there were many people on the internet asking about the same question as I was, which is why don’t people in western cultures normally eat bugs? As one author writes, “Why don’t we eat bugs?”. Reading through the online articles, most of the authors agreed that bugs could potentially be beneficial to our economy, our body (nutritional wise), and the environment. However, I did come across a source that made an argument against the shift towards making bugs our “food norm”. He explains, that because there are numerous amounts of deaths and illnesses due to people eating bugs in lower developed countries, society should not focus too much attention on eating bugs in the future. Even though, I disagreed with his beliefs because of reasons I will explain on my research paper, it was good to know the other side of the story to keep my paper from being too biased. …show more content…
I tried searching up insects, food, and eastern cultures through the search bar, but I could find any sources that was going to be beneficial to my paper. However, after going to office hours, I realized the term I needed to search up was actually entomophagy, the practice of eating insects, especially with human. Once I entered entomophagy on to the catalog, there was a book called Edibles by Martin, Daniella. Reading the summary, I felt that this book would be useful for my research paper and decided to check it out of the library as my primary source of