Results: Entomophagy - eating insects. Would you, or have you?
1.
1.
Would you ever eat any kind of insect/bug?
Never.
56%
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769 votes
If it were the only way to avoid starvation, maybe I would eat bugs.
23%
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320 votes
I might try it.
10%
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132 votes
I'd like to try it.
3%
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44 votes
I have tried at least one kind of insect.
8%
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109 votes
2.
2.
If you have tried eating bugs, what kind did you eat? N/A - I've never eaten bugs
79%
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1090 votes
Crickets
7%
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102 votes
Ants
6%
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88 votes
Cockroaches
3%
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38 votes
Silkworms, mealworms, or other pupae
3%
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44 votes
Some kind of beetle
3%
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37 votes
Spiders/tarantulas (not technically insects, but tend to be considered bugs anyway)
1%
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14 votes
Scorpions (also not technically insects, but tends to get lumped in with bugs)
2%
•
24 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
•
28 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| snails | 0.14% | 2 |
| na | 0.14% | 2 |
| night crawler | 0.07% | 1 |
| chocolate covered grasshopper | 0.07% | 1 |
| a mosquito while jogging! | 0.07% | 1 |
| we've all eaten them in any processed foods as they are allowed to have so many roaches, flies, ants spiders etc in them. and we all eat approximately 7 spiders every year in our sleep! ewwww! | 0.07% | 1 |
| shrimp | 0.07% | 1 |
| can't remember. kids will be kids. | 0.07% | 1 |
| choclate choverd grasshoppers | 0.07% | 1 |
| don't you know you swallow a bug at least once a week in your sleep | 0.07% | 1 |
| grasshoppers | 0.07% | 1 |
| moth | 0.07% | 1 |
| tequila worm | 0.07% | 1 |
| bee | 0.07% | 1 |
| grasshopper | 0.07% | 1 |
| some kind of warm inside a lollipop | 0.07% | 1 |
| cfhocolate covered grasshopper in high school | 0.07% | 1 |
| 0.07% | 1 | |
| wormburgers | 0.07% | 1 |
| all those delightful buggies that are used as coloring in foods! | 0.07% | 1 |
| everyone has eaten bugs before, whether they realize it or not. | 0.07% | 1 |
| none yuk | 0.07% | 1 |
| n/a | 0.07% | 1 |
| chocolate covered grasshoppers | 0.07% | 1 |
| none | 0.07% | 1 |
| g | 0.07% | 1 |
3.
3.
Would you be more comfortable eating bugs if they were hidden in the food somehow (ground up, covered in chocolate, etc.) That might make me more comfortable if I couldn't see the bug in the food.
28%
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379 votes
No, just knowing I was eating a bug would be too gross for me.
62%
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855 votes
I don't care whether or not the bug is hidden, I'd eat it either way.
10%
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140 votes
4.
4.
Did you know the FDA allows a certain amount of insects/insect "fragments" in food? It's impossible to get ALL the insects out of some things. For example, the FDA "action level" (the point at which it's considered a problem) for hops is an "average of more than 2,500 aphids per 10 grams". SERIOUSLY?! I'm grossed out now. Thanks a LOT.
45%
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624 votes
I knew this, and it's gross/bothers me.
28%
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380 votes
I didn't know that... no big deal to me, though.
16%
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213 votes
I knew that, and it doesn't bother me. Extra protein! Yum!
11%
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157 votes
5.
5.
And, finally... if you've deliberately eaten insects, did you like what you tried? N/A - I've never eaten insects.
81%
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1115 votes
I tried it, but didn't like it.
7%
•
100 votes
I tried it. It was okay, I guess?
8%
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113 votes
I tried it, and it was pretty good. I'd eat insects again.
3%
•
46 votes
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