As many are making New Year's resolutions to eat healthier, would you try adding bugs to your diet?
In many cultures, eating insects is a part of their diet. In Asia, bugs are invading street food markets in Thailand and Vietnam. From cricket soup to worms you can get fried, battered, or sauteed with peppers, edible bugs are crawling into a popular nightcap snack.In Colombia, one region has a species of ant called Atta laevigata, and one of the local names of the ant in Spanish roughly translates to “big-butt ant.
But is this political motivation enough to make this trend mainstream in countries that don’t normally have such a high appetite for insects and arachnids? Of course, if you could convince an entirely new part of the population to ingest insects, there would be a market to make money. So will the Microsoft founder's next place to score big bucks be with bugs?
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