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(Yahoo)   The Huffington Post knows how to solve overpopulation, global warming and world hunger all at once: We should all start eating grubs, larvae, roadkill and weeds. Bonus: No, really. They're serious   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-02-13 11:48:03 AM  
There are many parts of rural America where eating roadkill is a time-honored tradition. Some states even have laws regulating what you can and cannot take home with you.
 
UberDave [OhFark]
2008-02-13 12:36:56 PM  
Pocket Ninja: There are many parts of rural America where eating roadkill is a time-honored tradition. Some states even have laws regulating what you can and cannot take home with you.


I visited England a couple of years ago. Some guy from my client site was driving me from Newcastle to Whitehaven in a company BMW. About halfway there, and going about 75 MPH, we clipped this massive pheasant that wandered out into the road. The thing must have went 80 feet before hitting the ground. We keep going and I turned to the driver and said, "You're not going back to get that bird?" He simply laughed. I sat there for a couple of minutes then said, "You know...if we were in Texas, we would be going back for that pheasant." He just laughed for the next few miles...


/Mmmmm....tasty road kill.
 
oldebayer
2008-02-13 12:41:36 PM  
I will if they will.

/90% of the roadkill around these parts is dead skunks in the middle of the road.
 
exick
2008-02-13 12:53:27 PM  
Maybe you should look up the definition of the word serious, submitter.
 
Snarfangel
2008-02-13 1:11:23 PM  
I didn't realize roadkill was an effective contraceptive.

/I guess it depends on how you use it, though.
 
MasterThief
2008-02-13 1:51:04 PM  
I ate a chocolate-covered Cicada during the last Brood X appearance. One was enough for me.
 
Headso
2008-02-13 1:59:45 PM  
another solution would be to use our giant military to kill everyone else on the planet...
 
LoneStarJustin
2008-02-13 2:00:43 PM  
mmmmmmmm......taste like chicken
 
carmody
2008-02-13 2:01:04 PM  
So submitter is saying we couldn't feed more people by diversifying our diet to include things that occur naturally in abundance?

We really could feed the world on mealworms. Roast them and grind them into a protein-rich flour additive and you'd never know your bread and pizza was made with them. They taste kind of nutty, actually.
 
eatit
2008-02-13 2:01:07 PM  
I couldnt finish the article. I was gagging on the authors clever humor.
 
Siamese Bream
2008-02-13 2:01:16 PM  
Beats McDonalds, I suppose
 
burndtdan
2008-02-13 2:01:20 PM  
eating grubs, larvae, roadkill and weeds

one kid tried to accomplish this by cooking a weed hamburger, but the farking cop went and freaked out...
 
Satanic_Hamster
2008-02-13 2:01:38 PM  
I've eaten roadkill. However, my dad was the one who hit it.

Mmmmm, fresh quail.

(the first one was accidental. then 50' down the road, he ran off the road to get the second one)

--------------------
Currently listening to Yousei Teikoku's Gothic Lolita Propaganda
 
fuelvolts
2008-02-13 2:01:49 PM  
I ate a grasshopper once, but I was 3.
 
ban_sidhe [TotalFark]
2008-02-13 2:01:50 PM  
I'll bet that strategy would also go a long way toward solving the obesity problem, too.

/Not eating bugs or roadkill.
//Vegetarian.
///(Thank goodness.)
 
Savage Belief
2008-02-13 2:02:05 PM  
Is this the editor?

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jshove1
2008-02-13 2:02:11 PM  
Are the grubs wrapped in bacon?

/would eat it.
 
Zarkin Frood
2008-02-13 2:02:55 PM  
Fark user image World hunger does not exist because people are picky eaters.
 
tampaflacouple
2008-02-13 2:03:12 PM  
I am sure in some countries fried bugs are a staple of the diet, with that said I live in the farkin' good old U.S of A. and unless I am marooned somewhere and death is knocking on my door, no bugs for me. Now a cow? Thats a different subject.
 
savage_world
2008-02-13 2:03:50 PM  
Lobster == Big Damn Bug.
 
littlett's
2008-02-13 2:04:00 PM  
Where is that worm infested chocolate?
 
Munchausen
2008-02-13 2:04:03 PM  
Headso
"another solution would be to use our giant military to kill everyone else on the planet..."

Replace "our giant military" with "radical Islamists" and you've got a point.
 
Freddie the Talking Flute
2008-02-13 2:04:39 PM  
They can have my cow when they pull it from my cold, dead fingers.
 
katghoti
2008-02-13 2:05:13 PM  
Okay, YOU eat the bugs, and I'll eat meat. There solved, stupid earth muffins.
 
Donnchadha
2008-02-13 2:06:43 PM  
I think we can solve world hunger and overpopulation at the same time, with a fairly Modest Proposal...

Not sure how that'll help global warming though. I'll need to keep thinking on that one.
 
Nestea Plunge
2008-02-13 2:06:48 PM  
There used to be a restaurant in Bellingham, MA called Grubrunners. No they didn't serve grubs, they employed them in the kitchen.
 
rbaron71
2008-02-13 2:07:24 PM  
This does not diminish my crush on Arianna Huffington in any way.
 
BlorfMaster
2008-02-13 2:07:41 PM  
Bugs arent kosher
 
pennysdeuce
2008-02-13 2:07:54 PM  
Wait, how does eating roadkill stop global warming? We still have to have cars in order to run these beasts over right?

/I R Confused.
 
Siamese Bream
2008-02-13 2:07:59 PM  
Zarkin Frood

World hunger does not exist because people are picky eaters.

Yes it does. All those brown people in Africastan would be chubby and jolly if they'd just man up and stop being so damned choosy.
 
robisfunky
2008-02-13 2:08:12 PM  
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Gairloch
2008-02-13 2:08:44 PM  
I'd like to make a modest proposal to The Huffington Post.
 
Propain_az
2008-02-13 2:08:53 PM  
I've been eating bugs for years, so, as usual, I am elite.
 
gorgor
2008-02-13 2:08:53 PM  
Try a McAfrica (new window)
 
GoBadgers
2008-02-13 2:09:23 PM  
grubs, larvae, roadkill and weeds

Now THAT'S a hearty stew!
 
HomeGrownCone
2008-02-13 2:09:29 PM  
more like (Gas) Huffington.
 
DrForrester
2008-02-13 2:09:54 PM  
Possum, the other other white meat.
 
Nightsweat
2008-02-13 2:10:32 PM  
Bug farms. "Yeah, I gots me something like 42 billion head of vermin here. And then in my other underwear drawer..."
 
borist
2008-02-13 2:10:59 PM  
Well good. I won't have to change my diet.
 
imgod2u
2008-02-13 2:13:38 PM  
Compared to a lot of the stuff (McDonalds) people eat daily, this might be a step up.
 
Headso
2008-02-13 2:14:12 PM  
Munchausen: Replace "our giant military" with "radical Islamists" and you've got a point.

and what point would that be?
 
Englebert Slaptyback
2008-02-13 2:14:12 PM  

tampaflacouple

unless I am marooned somewhere and death is knocking on my door, no bugs for me. Now a cow? Thats a different subject.


So if a cow were knocking on your door...
 
cyber_slacker
2008-02-13 2:14:16 PM  
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zombies eat them raw
 
Terryg999
2008-02-13 2:15:01 PM  
This is what it is to be Progressive.

With progressives we have; Wiccians, Kwanzaa Celebrations, Voodoo ceremonies, Everyone will get an 'A' in school, We will eat bugs instead of actual food ,everyone will be equally poor with equally poor health care, and we all live in mud huts.

Yeaaaaaa, Ridiculous Liberals!
 
cyber_slacker
2008-02-13 2:15:46 PM  
BlorfMaster: Bugs arent kosher

You know what else isn't kosher?
 
Mr.Insightful
2008-02-13 2:15:50 PM  
If we don't solve global warming and overpopulation, it's pretty clear that we will be eating grubs, weeds, and long dead roadkill.
 
Jeffrey.Rodriguez
2008-02-13 2:16:01 PM  
savage_world: Lobster == Big Delicious Damn Bug.

FTFY

I'm not strictly opposed to eating bugs. If food tastes good, it's nutritious, and it's not worse for me than say, sweet sweet cow flesh, I'm all for it.

I need to take a trip to Pismo again soon.
 
Incredulous
2008-02-13 2:16:21 PM  
Submitter The Huffington Post knows ....

Actually, Subby, a writer whose blog gets published on HuffPost posits the idea. Just like Fark, the site is really nothing more than a news aggregator. Beyond Arianna Huffington's own blog, it can't really be said what the site knows or thinks.
 
Ruca
2008-02-13 2:16:25 PM  
I might consider eating bugs if they were killed and cooked properly first. I am a steak and chicken lover, but I wouldn't just take a bite out of a live, moving cow or chicken, which is perhaps why the thought of live bugs crawling in my food freaks me out.

/When people think of eating bugs, they usually think "live" bugs
//ew
 
Bhasayate
2008-02-13 2:16:29 PM  
I'm surprised they didn't put "drink your pee pee" on the list, too.
 
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