Heather Looy and John R. Wood’s article “Save the planet; Eat bugs: Why it’s time for the West to embrace edible insects” (CC, Sept. 20) inspired this column. I agree that the Biblical story about Peter and Cornelius and the vision of the lowered sheet is not about clean or unclean foods: it is, as…
“Ugh, waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!” This classic joke turns on a universally acknowledged truth in the Western world – that insects are disgusting. And that anything they touch is likewise contaminated. If insects in our food are a problem, imagine our reaction if insects were the food. Would you eat a grasshopper…
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