Many insect connoisseurs claim that the nutritious value of the bugs they eat makes up for the lack of social acceptance associated with their dietary practices. There could be a down-side for anyone considering using insects to make extra creepy Halloween treats, warns Reames. You would have to cook them under strict regulations. There are several companies that wholesale edible insects for food use and home preparation. One local distributer, Fluker Farms in Port Allen, sells meal worms and crickets both the live and chocolate-covered variety.
Reames suggests getting insects for cooking from a distributer.
Other edible insects include meal worms, tomato hornworms, katydids, beetle grubs, locusts, grasshoppers and a host of others. Those were the big questions addressed by University leaders at the Provost's Seminar on Oct. 6 at the Lod Cook Alumni Center. Administrators participating in the seminar were given an overview of pressing issues in the field of faculty employment by Richard Chait, professor of higher education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Chait is widely known for his publications and work in the area of academic tenure and faculty employment policies. Five factors have come together to spark a call for reform of the tenure system, Chait said.