To be more precise, many non-vegetarians eat a few bugs (worms in tequila in the US, chocolate ants are popular some parts of Latin America, etc).
Let's take chocolate covered ants. They can be bought in wafers for $2 a wafer, some web sites list them for ten cents an ant. So it can't be that they are out of price range for people. My hunch is that prestige is associated with eating some kinds of animals (an evolutionary byproduct of successful hunting in ancient Africa?) and that poor cultures frequently eat bugs cause they plentiful, while livestock is expensive. Fabio > Does anybody suppose that there might be an economic > reason why we don't eat bugs? Or is it just a case of > there being no accounting for taste? > > Curiously yours, > jsh
