Sainsbury's Selling Bug Grub

[naomi24]

//Crickets are set to hit the shelves as Sainsbury’s becomes the first supermarket to sell edible bugs.

Customers will be able to fill their shopping baskets with Eat Grub’s Smoky BBQ Crunchy Roasted Crickets in 250 of the supermarket giant’s stores from Sunday.

The house crickets, also known as acheta domesticus, are farmed in Europe will come in packets of about 50 and sell for £1.50 per bag.

Anyone brave enough to try the snack is promised to get a “crunchy texture with a rich, smoky flavour”......The global edible insect market is set to exceed $500m by 2023.//

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sainsburys-first-uk-supermarket-sell-edible-bugs-insects-crickets-a8638581.html

Well? Would you?

[bainbrig]

No. No sentient being is the rule.

[ummmm]

What about slugs, fleas, rats and mice?

[AuntLydia]

Ummmm look up the word sentient......

[bainbrig]

Sentient beings. Their wants, their desires, might be simple, but it is all they have. One life, one chance, one go at what passes for contentment. What right have I got to deny them their life?

[dannyk13]

Are they Halal?

[ummmm]

Gosh...I've only just woke up :-)

[bainbrig]

In Buddhism, nothing is clean or unclean. It is possible to live a good life, and one of the precepts is Ahimsa, or the principle of causing no injury to other beings.

[retrocop]

//or the principle of causing no injury to other beings.//

I would suggest not possible.

[bainbrig]

Wouldn't disagree, retro, but it's worth a try!

[hereIam]

The post at 10:06 makes a lot of sense.

[hc4361]

bainbrig, are you referring to those Buddhists that wear face masks so they don't accidentally inhale and swallow insects; and sweep the ground in front of them as they walk so they don't step on any insect or small creature?
I saw a documentary about them and they were fascinating.

My daughter is a vegan Buddhist but doesn't do those things although she does try to do no harm to any living critter

[naomi24]

Never let it be said that bainbrig has no sense of humour. ;o)

[Eleena]

No thank you.

[237SJ]

No, I was offered fried grasshoppers in Mexico which is pretty much the same thing and I refused so I`m certainly not going to go to Sainsburys and pay for them.

[spathiphyllum]

"I feel sorry for the carrots and potatoes. They scream their heads off when they're pulled out of their cosy beds in the ground you know. ;o)"

It's actually been proven that vegetation sends out distress signals when it is tampered with. For example, cutting grass, sends out pheromones to bugs to come and protect it, pulling a carrot out of the ground will cause the entire plant to send distress signals.. worst of all, people smell them and say "Ahh, smells so fresh".. What they're smelling is the tiny screams.. horrific. lol

[andres]

How do they kill the crickets? By all means feed them to the starving people in famine riddled countries. Save them from dying from malnutrition. Personally I couldn't eat one let alone a bagful.

[ummmm]

Spath - read the book 'a secret life of plants'

Fascinating.