Insects for humans are not more nutritious...they do have nutrition but definitely in the long run, not a complete solution. Besides, it wouldn't be cost effective to change our beef/chicken diets to crickets and hornworms.



In cultures that do eat insects as part of their diet, most are very large compared to typical feeder insects. Also many are rather seasonal and eaten when plentiful.



Humans do eat far too much in volume and far too poor in quality for the most part in North America. It also doesn't help that so much crap is added to food, such as excess salt and sugar, to the point even a proper portion of food would already have far too much sodium than we need. We also eat far too much convenience foods, like fast food, processed meats, 'ready in 5 minutes' type foods, etc. which often are not nutritionally sound and contain high levels of sodium.



We would be far healthier if we eat the greens commonly fed to bearded dragons and iguanas supplemented with some meat which has no salt added. A little salt can be added as seasoning when cooked, but I really don't think all the salt added in the meat when it leaves the packaging plant is necessary. Seasoned chicken breasts just means soaked in very salty water for a period of time.
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