Do people eat 1 pound of insects a year without knowing it?
People in America consume about 2 pounds (for us Brits 4.4 kilograms) of what is so called as “dirt” by the processing food industries. “dirt” can be anything that is not considered edible-actual dirt, bugs, insects, and rats even. There is a story from someone i know that told me that they worked in a company that made lemon pies. A rat got into one of the big tanks of lemon filling. He called his boss asking if he should remove the creature but his boss told him to leave it in because they were allowed to have 2 pounds of dirt a year. So that rat was ground up and mixed into the lemon pie filling…”very appetizing”.
