I don’t know about y’all , but I am amassing a ton of knowledge on this “Eat your bugs” propaganda. And I can tell you with confidence that not only do these bugs cause pathogens, they also make you antibiotic resistant. I will leave the studies under this post. Leave yours also
Allergies? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…
Occurrence of selected bacterial pathogens in insect-based food products and in-depth characterisation of detected Bacillus cereus group isolates sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
This will be an ongoing thread. Should you also find studies tag me so we do not repeat studies posted. Also I will clean this post up lol
Cockroach pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33128616/
Bacteria and fungi release mycotoxins into the insects: portal.ct.gov/-/media/CAES/D…
Edible Insects as a Source of Food Allergens digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewconten…
Spore-forming bacteria in insect-based foods : sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Occurrence of selected bacterial pathogens in insect-based food products
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
This little tidbit where they are making bank Edible Insects Market Worth $7.96 Billion by 2030- globenewswire.com/news-release/2…
TOXICOLOGICAL STUDY ON THE EDIBLE LARVA OF CIRINA FORDA (WESTWOOD) semanticscholar.org/paper/TOXICOLO…
Risks related to the presence of Salmonella sp. during rearing of mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) for food or feed: Survival in the substrate and transmission to the larvae sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
A parasitological evaluation of edible insects and their role in the transmission of parasitic diseases to humans and animals journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
Thank you for the inspiration of this thread @maxigan , here’s the study that started me wondering pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19908331/
Thank you all for helping me with contributing to this thread . It has been an enlightening few days. In the meantime let’s remind people of the truth about eating bugs , please retweet the article you all made happen :
Hello again, thought y’all might want to know that our post has made it into The Exposé! Thank you all for contributing 💜 expose-news.com/2022/08/25/the…
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