>aloha!
>	rawmyn & rawwimmin',
>			    anyone know of a purveyor of glandular
>products that purports a permaculture/biodynamic/range-fed/organic life
>for the animals? [any single or combination of the above]  preferably
>freeze-dried, wouldn't you say?

Best raise your own insects, Om. Then dry em and pulverize em and eat em if
they taste good. :?

>	setting aside what appears as the industry standard source (cows)
>-- how about eating glands of an insect?  not in isolation, but as part
>of merging the whole body of the little being into my larger being.
>maybe insect glands can help explain why bruno comby finds the critters
>10 times as satisfying as meat.  isolated meat muscle vs. whole insect.

Also fish fillets vs shellfish, though I am not above picking the good
stuff out of a mussel sometimes or eating scallops w/o the orange (which is
almost always how we get them in markets in the USA). Stefannason, the
Eskimo-diet explorer guy, has plenty of anecdotes about preferring (and
doing better on) organs over meat (esp fresh). But still, show me someone
who prefers the intestine over the roe in a fish gut and I'll watch
transfixed.

(It is such a pearl-like surprise to be rewarded with roe sacks in a
relatively clean mackerel gut which was my fate three times this morning.
Do the fish stop eating once they start producing eggs? Instead of the mess
one usually encounters in a less than just-out-of-the-water fresh fish, it
seems that when they have roe that it is tidier in there, more like an
anatomy diagram, so to speak...)

>	when will whole foods feature crawling insects behind their meat
>counter?  {intentionally, i mean!}  and when will bread & circus add live
>animals to their show?  time will tell.

Bait shops and the Food Insect Newsleter will have to do until Bruno's
insect book is translated, eh? BTW, Om, take it easy on the ants. God's
plan is for them to lick your fish drying mesh free of it's Omega-3
drippings and other hard to remove tidbits... ;)

Ombodhi in another post:
>	should i eat any insect that crawls within reach, trusting my
>taste?  this question goes out to france, europe, san marcos, everywhere!

Yes, you should. And if you drop dead, then we'll all know not to eat. ;)
Seriously, you've probably tasted a larger variety of insects than I have
it sounds like! Keep us all posted...<wink wink, nudge nudge>

Cheers,
Kirt (ignorant in San Marcos)