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Would You Eat Bugs?

OK, but what if they were covered in chocolate?

Would You Eat Bugs?
People eat periodical cicadas in Hyattsville, Maryland, on June 4, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Nathan Worcester
Nathan Worcester
Senior Reporter
11/1/2022|Updated: 11/7/2022
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Many of the world’s most powerful people and institutions want us to eat bugs (bite the beetle, chew the cricket, nosh on the night crawler, and so forth.) But will the American people get with the program?

An employee of the factory "L'Atelier a pates" ("The pasta shop") empties a basket with some flour of insects (locusts or crickets) to make pasta (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images)
An employee of the factory "L'Atelier a pates" ("The pasta shop") empties a basket with some flour of insects (locusts or crickets) to make pasta Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images
Nathan Worcester
Nathan Worcester
Senior Reporter
Nathan Worcester is an award-winning journalist for The Epoch Times based in Washington, D.C. He frequently covers Capitol Hill, elections, and the ideas that shape our times. He has also written about energy and the environment. Nathan can be reached at [email protected]
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