Grub By Dana Goodyear Summary

Grub is a piece that strongly encourages the consumption of insects in our meals. Why? Because we may be facing a crisis as meat could disappear in the close future, Goodyear notes. When this happens, it will be a worldwide problem and will most certainly create conflicts among countries. “World War Three will be over control of water and food”. (39) Because of this constant threat of running out of aliments, why not replace meat with, well, meat? “The insects may be an answer”. (39) The purpose of Goodyear’s article is to convince the masses that “entomophagy” is the best way of avoiding such a crisis. Dana Goodyear opens her article with a nice visual image, the description of Florence Dunkel’s appearance and house, …show more content…
“Basically, you need to smuggle them.” (46) The things that a person trying to promote insect eating has to go through are unbelievable. The author is distressed by the fact that we, as a people, create obstacles and prevent the usage of valuable resources such as insects, even though we are aware that our current natural goods will someday disappear. The article suggests that introducing the idea of bug eating to Westerners is a really hard thing to do. “Promoters of entomophagy may face a bigger obstacle. Most Westerners view insects as inappropriate for eating – the psychological equivalent of wood or paper – or dangerous, like cleaning fluid.” Goodyear acknowledges that the best way of promoting this activity is by telling people that the dish they are about to eat is extremely rare. “Tell them it’s very