Bugs as food
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Bugs as food is a push by Leftist environmentalists and globalists to replace traditional food with a human diet based on bugs instead.
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Foodborne Diseases in the Edible Insect Industry
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlights possible food safety issues with edible insects, Food and Safety News website, 2021
- Foodborne Diseases in the Edible Insect Industry in Europe—New Challenges and Old Problems, Foods 2023, 12(4), 770; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12040770
John the Baptist ate a diet of locusts and honey
See also: John the Baptist
"Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey." (Matthew 3:4 NASB)
The Bible commentator Matthew Henry wrote of John the Baptist's diet:
| “ | His diet was plain; his meat was locusts and wild honey; not as if he never ate any thing else; but these he frequently fed upon, and made many meals of them, when he retired into solitary places, and continued long there for contemplation. Locusts were a sort of flying insect, very good for food, and allowed as clean (Lev. 11:22); they required little dressing, and were light, and easy of digestion, whence it is reckoned among the infirmities of old age, that the grasshopper, or locust, is then a burden to the stomach, Eccl. 12:5. Wild honey was that which Canaan flowed with, 1 Sa. 14:26. Either it was gathered immediately, as it fell in the dew, or rather, as it was found in the hollows of trees and rocks, where bees built, that were not, like those in hives, under the care and inspection of men. This intimates that he ate sparingly, a little served his turn; a man would be long ere he filled his belly with locusts and wild honey: John Baptist came neither eating nor drinking (ch. 11:18)—not with the curiosity, formality, and familiarity that other people do. He was so entirely taken up with spiritual things, that he could seldom find time for a set meal. Now, (1.) This agreed with the doctrine he preached of repentance, and fruits meet for repentance. Note, Those whose business it is to call others to mourn for sin, and to mortify it, ought themselves to live a serious life, a life of self-denial, mortification, and contempt of the world. John Baptist thus showed the deep sense he had of the badness of the time and place he lived in, which made the preaching of repentance needful; every day was a fast-day with him. (2.) This agreed with his office as Christ's forerunner; by this practice he showed that he knew what the kingdom of heaven was, and had experienced the powers of it. Note, Those that are acquainted with divine and spiritual pleasures, cannot but look upon all the delights and ornaments of sense with a holy indifference; they know better things. By giving others this example he made way for Christ. Note, A conviction of the vanity of the world, and everything in it, is the best preparative for the entertainment of the kingdom of heaven in the heart. Blessed are the poor in spirit.[1] | ” |
