>Greetings!
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>> I never ate them [termites] cooked only raw.
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>With the widespread use of pesticides and the insect-world developping
>tolerances to them, is it safe to eat wild bugs in industrial-farming
>communities? You don't know where they've been flying around!


Insects don't live in isolation from the rest of the web of life ,so what
affect them affect the whole . what you say is true for every possible food
source and eating a  species is the best mean we have to makes sure it's
environment is protected  and to insure it a future .
Unless we are actively promoting healthy diversified ecosystems , there is
no safety to hope anymore from anywhere..
I am priviliged here for living on a border of a park and in a communauty
that use little chemicals . Our farmer's market is essentially an organic
one , mostly because the fertility of the land is still at an acceptable
level since the 1rst settlers established themselve only 100 years ago.
Using chemicals makes sense only when the natural fertility of the land have
been depleted for a long time overwise it is just wasted money.
The fact that i am priviliged is a given but i don't take it  for granted .
in the contrary  it even   help  me  , to feel more deeply the devastation
that is happenning thru the world and to be there as a witness of what was
once there and could be there again.
Coming from Europe where the land have been exploited for centuries ( the
roman started the logging in France ) i have been made aware of the
fondamental difference  in fertility between what i considered the wildest
remnant of west EUrope  ( pyrennees) with the wild west coast of canada
 exploited only, and  reasonably ,  by the the natives until the end of the
last century).
So the "danger" of eating the wrong thing is becoming in my eyes one more
opportunity to want and work for the best.
jean-claude