AFK42

He's still at the register arguing. Stand by.

So, here's my problem with cricket flour, maybe you can assuage my fears.

I've had a Bearded Dragon as a pet in the past, and part of having a Bearded Dragon is maintaining a cricket colony for feeding. My time at maintaining a cricket colony has taught me that crickets are some of the most disgusting and messy creatures on the planet. The sheer volume of excrement in a cricket colony is enough to drive one to drink.

So while the thought of eating crickets ground up into flour is something I think I would try, the level of disgusting grossness a cricket colony contains just puts me off of ever trying one. That is all I would be able to think of while eating anything made of cricket powder.

So, my questions is this, what percentage of cricket flour is cricket shit? Because I'm guessing it's pretty high.

I hope he was talking about soil farming in his reply, and not Agents of SHIELD...

You take them both and there you have the Facts of Life.

I get it. There is much more excrement from these animals. And I (obviously) do not disagree.

But my main point was the level of excrement these creatures will be covered in at the time of processing. When you are preparing a cow or a chicken for consumption, the entire animal does not get ground up in the process. The goal is (usually) to remove just the edible parts (i.e. the muscle) from the inedible parts (i.e. the digestive system, or other innards).

Plus, the cricket colony is usually contained within one's house when you're using them to feel a reptile. Cows and chickens usually have their own accommodations outside the home.