22 Feb 2023 7:46 am
Interesting point… where did the widespread human prejudice against eating nutritious and abundant bugs come from? I expect most people would choose to die of hunger rather than eat bugs.Zeets2 » 22 Feb 2023, 8:07 am » wrote: ↑ He's channeling the 21st century reincarnation of Marie Antoinette:
"Let them eat bugs!"
An interesting story from a number of years ago - an older couple I know went out Jeeping one afternoon in an area about 20 miles from town where there are a lot of old mining roads and somehow ran up on a big rock, tipping the Jeep onto its side. They weren’t hurt, but instead of walking out on the road they came in on, they chose to follow Bear Grylls’ advice, “when lost in the wilderness, to follow the watercourses down, as civilization can always be found downstream.”
After several hours of rough hiking, they got to the river in the bottom of a generally impassible canyon (unless you have a boat). They were very thirsty by then (didn’t have any water with them) - husband had a good drink out of the river, but wife wouldn’t because she feared what bugs might be in the water. They turned around and headed back up the arroyo, getting back to the Jeep after dark. Next morning they took off in another direction (curiously still not the road they drove in on, they were only about eight miles from the highway). They came across a spring seeping from the ground, but wife still refused to drink. Eventually she couldn’t go on, due to dehydration and exhaustion, so husband left her as comfortably as he could, and continued his search for help. Some time later he was discovered by a guy on horseback out checking on his range cattle. Finding wife again, unconscious and obviously in very bad shape, the Sheriff called in the National Guard who helicoptered her to a hospital 200 miles away, where she survived, but with a bowel resection (I guess a consequence of dehydration).
In case the long story made anyone forget the point, wife chose dehydration and near death rather than risk eating bugs.