Maybe do some reading about anti nutrients 🤷

Kinda related to the topic of this video: Do you have any resources on foraging and eating clams? Specifically, the invasive Asian clams that clog up our creeks and rivers. I've foraged some before, but it's been a long time, and I didn't really know what I was doing anyway. If you don't have anything, that's alright. I appreciate it anyway, and I will keep trying to learn.

Disgusting.

@@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617 wuss. Jk you do what you want.

But their sad little eyes? How could you? 😢

Finally, someone with some sense

​@@Huntress_Raven its pretty common sense that you shouldnt eat something you are allgeric to.

Finally I have an excuse for my aversion to crickets. They just gross me tf out. I refuse to feed them to my reptiles but have no problem with Dubia

Thank you for sharing this!

​@LGrian so you'll feed literal roaches to your reptiles but not krickets? gee your soooo smart Dubia roaches totally don't carry more diseases than krickets😒

👍👍. Cool mart Dad! 👃✌️🇨🇦. (smart) oops.... 🥰

We've lost so many oral traditions, always ask your elders questions

​@@gracequalls9770You need to thank your mother, that because of her oral traditions, you didn’t have as many siblings as you might have had to share your sh@t with😂

From the same people who put it on the internet

Exactly. Only crabs and shrimp and lobsters are bottom feeders eating stuff that they are there to clean up. Cicadas are feeding on nice clean tree root sap.

But don't eat if you have a shellfish allergy.

​@@anyascelticcreations great point!

Bro, that was *EXACTLY* what I was thinking.

Basically. You can actually eat the more mature ones it's just more preparation.

The shells are an important ingredient in Chinese medicine, you can use them as herbal tea.

Good idea just don't move them too far from where you get them please.

​@@joey3291 that makes sense. They always smelled weirdly sweet.

Would love to have had you as my teacher. Probably wouldn't have eaten the grubs though. Lol.

My 9th grade biology teacher also had a bug day. There was a cicada brood that came out that year and she brought in a tray for us all to try. I'm glad for the exposure

As a kid, I made some other kids eats bugs on playground. I can only imagine that they have similarly fond memories

@@mirzamay bet I could have gotten you to taste them.

@@zeroisnine lol

I don't get it 💀

@@DarkShadow_2013 cats like eating bugs...

actually in ancient China, cats were also named as "the cicada eater"

@@joey3291 ik but the joke is a bit rubbish if you ask me 💀

Yes more entymophogy(?) videos please!!!!!!!!

​@@rachellestringer entomophagy!

yup. both considered trash poor ppl food until the rich learned they were delicious and now they ruined the market for us. don't let the rich get cicadas too

Lots of poor people ate lobster, and they soon became rarer and rarer. This brought the price of lobster up, making the aristocrats suddenly love this poor man's fish.

When I was growing up on the Gulf coast of Texas in the 1960s, if you wanted to feed a big crowd you got shrimp, 'cause they were so cheap. Or you caught a whole lotta crawdads.

I hate shrimp. Dont think id like it lol

The reason people hated them was because they rot in like two days and you have to remove the poop tube at their back with a knife before cooking. No one had a way to freeze them 300 years ago

Sounds like W.E.F. support to me

@@TherubbersluggchannelOh stop 🙄

@@mrjgilbertand who the f are you to tell me what to do?

@@Therubbersluggchannel you sound like you watch fox news

@@dr_spwewps you sound like a beta

Thank you so much! Yes, it was a labor of love from beginning to end!

Yum 😋

"Tree shrimp" is wild

Tree shrimps haha 😂 You’re not wrong, people are flipping out over something people have eaten for a long time

Idk I think just frying them is best

Coming to your house for dinner. Your fault. 😂

But why was a bb gun needed for gathering bugs

@@sloane4222 stop other kids from gathering your cicadas

😂​@@speakp4ngolin

I raise crickets for that purpose on my property. I don't eat a lot of regular meats, a texture thing, but if crickets are dehydrated and ground down, they don't taste bad and it adds a lot of protein to dishes. My crickets are mostly fed table scraps (onions peels, potato peels, occasional carrot tops, stuff like that).

Locust are eaten across the world. Taste like shrimp from what I hear

Different continents. They were talking about locust. Eating locust used to be extremely common worldwide and there's even a species that disappeared from excessive harvest though some people speculate it changed its behavior based on environmental factors rather than straight up going extinct, that's a question we probably won't be able to answer. That said locust are more labor-intensive to prepare than cicadas.

Yeah the “government wants to force us to eat bugs so anything related to the topic must be part of their psy-op” crowd is here lol. It’s hard to express how silly this is on so many fronts. But hopefully folks can appreciate Jesse providing awesome foraging content!

Because of Klaus Schwab and the WEF

Latest attempt to distract credulous right wingers from the actual issues.

It probably is political for some people. For me though I don't think of insects as food. I get a deeply uncomfortable repulsive reaction to the though of chewing on bugs. Very different from just not enjoying certain foods. I can't help it and honestly I don't want to change that. I am fascinated that a lot of people don't seem to feel this way though.

Since Western society stopped eating bugs, it's become thought of as "primitive", "poor", "foreign" in the US. Also note the converse: red meat is conceived as masculine and American. As the climate crisis intensifies, there's pressure to change the status quo (Americans consuming ridiculous amounts of meat) as the ecological impacts of animal agriculture are obvious. Many right-wing people feel threatened by this. Over time, internet discourse (largely on 4chan) evolved from "the leftists want us to eat bugs, I'm never giving up my steak" to a full-blown conspiracy theory that "global elites" want to enslave the masses and make them eat bugs. Hence the phrase "I will not eat the bugs" actually containing more meaning, being coded speech expressing support of this concept without saying it explicitly (similar to "let's go Brandon") TL;DR: it's highly political due to a right-wing narrative that "the other" (leftists/shadow government/whoever) wants to force them to eat insects

Because these don't bite.

@@Agustina-ko4um exactly! 😊

I fed one to a praying mantis once

​@@Cheese-is-its-own-food-groupwhat do you mean they don't bite one of them stuck that little mouth part into my arm and it hurt

​@@SonofHermes7 same! 🤭🤪

How was that gutter oil 😂

Fresh and China is an oxymoron lol. Did you try the spit oil or the pee beer? How about the formaldehyde veggies or lymph node pork, mmmhmmm tasty.

Not even close. Exact opposite.

​@eugenetswong When I was vegan, for 6 years, and bought products online, I'd always see questions involving bugs in food from vegans. It's funny how now vegans seem to be okay with bugs being on the menu, if only as a replacement for meat... Funny how things change. Best wishes!

@@HeroBComplex We don't want it for ourselves. It's very logical. At 1 time, they might have been concerned about bits in grains, but many don't care anymore, since it means less suffering. A few thousand accidental bugs vs. millions of deliberate mammals, right?

@@eugenetswong Insects are alive just as much as any other animal. Accidental insect deaths are fine, but more insect deaths for the purpose of consumption isn't better than eating a cow or a chicken. Why? Because you'd be killing way more animals in order to sustain people at the same level of calories. Knowingly eating a bug or a cow is the same in terms of 1 life = 1 life, neither one's more moral than the other, but you'd have to kill a lot of bugs to equal a cow. I was vegan for over 6 years and ate as balanced and clean as possible, but as time went on I had way less energy and found myself being way too sensitive to everything. I'm okay with veganity, obviously I was one, it just wasn't something my body could handle. Best wishes all the same on your path ahead!

@@HeroBComplexI wasn't advocating before you on the goal of eating insects. Eating insects causes less harm in the environment. They definitely suffer less, when you can kill them easily. You have a interesting point about less lives per calorie, but it's not good enough. Some lives do have more value. Maybe you should try the vegan diets that competitive vegan athletes use.

Exactly. 100% agree with what you’ve said here. I used to live in Latin America and have tried crickets before, and I’m honestly not bothered by the taste. And I also don’t mind the idea of willingly supplementing with bugs to get protein. What I absolutely do mind, is that certain elites are pushing for a two-tier system where rich people can eat whatever they want, and poor people have to be deprived of heme-iron rich foods like beef, while they sneak bugs into our products and pretend that’s not what they’re doing when they’ve already been caught. I also have to question whether said bugs are the same natural bugs you and I can get in our yards, or GMO bugs that they’re using to force something else on us like they tried to do a few years ago. Something really strange and creepy is happening on the societal level. I don’t have a weird superiority complex about bug eating, I’ve had it before, but I don’t like the direction things are going in the world.

100% agree with you here, on both matters

They're not tricking anybody. They've been using insect and insect products in our food for decades

Ditto on John the Baptist as I always wondered if he ate them raw or prepared, either in honey or cooked.

Just recently found out it was the locust Bean that grew in that region, not an actual insect. 🤯 I always wondered about that too, how wild honey and bugs would be enough to sustain a grown man all year long:)

I have heard that about the locust tree. I don’t know which is correct. Either or both would make an interesting video.

One of the most important food sources for bears in some areas is moth larvae. Apparently it's essential for their ability to put on enough weight for the winter. If I remember correctly those same bears will rip apart bee hives to get the larvea and the honey, too. If that kind of thing is so important to bears I would think it could sustain a human too. ​@@Di17227

​@steelmote Grasshoppers and locusts are 2 very different things. They do not transform nor shapeshift.

Should we eat cats and dogs like some people do, too??

Totally agree! We really need to catch up on what a lot of people already know: Insects are a delicious, nutritious, sustainable, and ethical source of food!

There's indigenous tribes that would eat people after they passed away as part of their rituals. I think many of us are just so far down the line of "don't eat bugs, don't eat people, etc" that it would be a pretty big mental hang up to get over. I love meat but if it came down to it I'd go vegan and just stick to plants if necessary.

​@@katie7748 ah yes, an insect is just as sentient as a mammal

@@katie7748 How much thought did you put into the connection between cicadas and cats and dogs? Just wondering, like, how much time you spent, because I really hope it was under 5 seconds.

Get rid of big farm, bring back local meat

Lobster and crabs are grosser Since they eat shit and rotting flesh but the cicadas are eating like roots and plants and shit

@@FriendOrFoe. True enough, doesn't mean you can just waver any negatives of bugs though. And is anyone forcing you to eat crab and lobster, and saying you can't eat cicadas?

@@elijahsanders3547 nobody is forcing people to eat bugs I first ate bugs when I went camping with my dad we got roasted crickets covered in cheese powerd to me they were just weird chips not bad at all lobster and crab was considered gross poor people food back in the day now its considered fancy rich people food just saying things change you can still eat steak and shit like that humans have been eating bugs for thousands of years - leviticus 11 "you may eat any kind of locust Katy did or grasshopper" John the Baptist was known to eat locust and honey

@@FriendOrFoe. I'm ok with people eating bugs if they want to, and yes, John The Baptist did eat wild locasts. But based on my understanding, globalists do want people to eat bugs, and don't want them eating beef (and quite honestly, it's none of their business, and their agendas seem to usually do more harm than good in my opinion). I'm not sure, but it could be being used as an additive as well. And farmers have been being targeted over the last few years with government overreach.

Me neither! All these people who insist it's a cOnSpiRacY ThEorY (some of which sound actually eager 😳 ) can have my share.

​@@katie7748 you do realize that people can just, like, enjoy how they taste, yes? not everything is about some guy nobody knows about saying people should eat bugs

Yeah normally I’m all for telling the WEF to go to hell, but I think there is a notable difference between a foraging KZfaqr saying “here’s a great source of protein you can exploit” and a massive international organization with ambitions to be a governing body saying “you will live in the pod, eat zee bugs, and own nothing and be happy”

The WEF doesn't just want you eating bugs, they want you eating their bugs to make them millions. I would imagine they hate the idea of you going out and harvesting your own, since they hate anything that makes you self sufficient.

​@@katie7748Conspiracy theory? ~scratching my head~

Too late. He was arrested at his home in Switzerland. Delta squad got him while he was in bed hooked up to a machine giving him an IV drip of that "A" word. The darkness will come to light ✨️

My thoughts exactly!

🐛 eat ze bugz 🐛

Klaus was removed from his home in Switzerland, in which a gun fight broke out. Klaus had around 30 body guards too. Delta squad took at least one casualty but completed the job. When they got to him, he was in bed hooked up to a machine with an IV drip of that "A" word. The darkness will come to light ✨️ Salem 💚💙💜

@@EL-Ki-Yanas we can't stop here.~ this is bat country

Haha!!! I thought it was Bill

I'm in Missouri. They're driving ppl crazy. Super loud!

This is have they cook them in Mexico

Imagine being this angry and announcing your unsubbing over this, that doesn't even affect you. I'm seeing all these dudes being squeamish, so far none of them women. Just dudes throwing tantrums.

seems like a ton of them are weird conservatives who believe in some weird conspiracy theory

@@WobblesandBean Agreed

Kooks? Conspiracy theories? 😂 grow up

​@@dr_spwewpsWEF is not a conspiracy theory

also who the hell is Klause Schabb?

​@@dr_spwewpsI suggest you start researching The World Economic Forum.

also you should try deep fried turantula. it tastes like soft shell crab

It’s best to ignore these people but here’s the background: Krause Schwab is the president of The World Economic Forum. The WEF made sustainable protein sources a part of their goals. The group is big on combatting climate change and world hunger (as they fly private and eat steaks). I totally understand disliking these rich, pretentious hypocrites BUT it’s super silly that so many people suddenly think ANY reference to eating bugs is some paid propaganda campaign. I hope most normal people can just appreciate the great info in the video.

​@dr_spwewps yeah i gotta hear this. Someone said he was straight up Raided and 💀ed

Let's hope natural selection takes care of the conspiracy theorists...

@@jesusthugmusic, I think you mean the 'conspirators'

@@Joe_C. I dont...

@@jesusthugmusic, so what you're saying is that we currently live in a utopia where people have and have had humanities best interests always at the forefront... Eschewing personal, political, financial, deviant, and megalomaniacal interests

@Joe_C. what I'm say8ng is trash brained people are trash. To think there is some conspiracy to get you to eat bugs shows you shouldn't be free.

😂😂😂💎

Do you eat lobster, shrimp, or crawfish? Genetically they are as close to cockroaches as you can get. They are water roaches.

Then don't eat them, and just move on when other people do

⁠​⁠@@sloane4222excuse me? Are you assuming I don’t eat them? I NEVER said I don’t eat them. So before you attack my comment, get your facts straight first.

Bugs are people too

😂😂😂​@@thschnick

That's funny...I don't eat plants...nope! LOL..I'd eat weird stuff too if nothing else. We are overdue for a massive CME...no power grid! We may sample a bug or two before it's over! But I do LOVE ANIMALS (some taste really good too) If no one has your back...bug out with jerky and kraut.

You've been sick more times than you can count the last 5 years haven't you?

​@@michaelhart8288You might very well be right because while I was vegan, 6 years, I'd convince myself over and over that I was healthier than when I ate meat. I was wrong, even though I ate a balanced diet I got weaker and weaker. I finally caved and am in better shape than I ever was as a vegan. It may work for some but not for me... Best wishes!

Try freezing them

@@looknailittlechannel I don't have that much freezer space. 😪

​@@cynthiacollins2668I wonder if after boiling they could be dried?

These are things you'll need to know if Trump gets back in office and we live like Russia

My Cherokee mother said they taste kind of nutty.

But he explained why you should.

​@@anonymousthesneaky220let's not and say we did 😂

@@jennifercubone2571 Now that's an idea.

What are you scared of?

Insects are not healthy meal for humans, let them talk whatever they want.

You may have to

I would eat an insect over an animal any day.

Do you know that if you eat any Wheat products you are already eating a certain percentage of bugs. For this is allowed by the Food and Drug Administration

🤔 Ever watch a chicken lay an egg? 🤔🤣🤣👃✌️🇨🇦

Of course you wouldn't. Because you've never been hungry, really hungry, have you?

Very interesting theory! The larvae feed off of plant roots, while the adults feed off of tree trunks. While you can't guarantee that the ones you're gathering have been feeding off of the roots of the trees they're climbing on, I'm very curious to see if ones gathered from one area tastes different from another.

I'm definitely going to play with the idea. I'm pretty big into beneficial bacteria and just read they have several very unique strains in them.

And that's just as it should be!

Real reality. Bugs are not food for human kind. If some choose to eat bugs, does absolutely not mean I have to. Common sense. Besides that, what about any food allergies, now that cricket powder is being added to food under the guise of some other name. Best cook and bake at home, from simple one ingredient items.

And your point is ? Skip the chicken?

Birds are able to digest Chitin... humans, not so much...

​@@joaquinmurrieta8912 this is false and disproven years ago human gastric juices contain chitinase the enzyme that dissolves chitin. If there was a problem with eating insect we would already have seen it happening within the current existing cultures that eat insects regularly.

interesting

Can you back this up? I am very curious.

​@@ohsnapitsgenevaLook it up online. The info is there, especially since the new push by TPTB for us to eat insects.

I just googled it and 70-90% IS digestible after the exoskeleton so this is some misinformation