foxnews.com/science/2012/12/ … mealworms/
See? I told you so… 
Yuum, it could be worse. Meal worms are healthy to eat, they did not make my kid sick, ee had no fish bait but, he was 2 year old happy.
Dear tent and Kris, May I kiss you both? You’ve both been very kind to me.
I realize what I eat is full of insect, grub, whatever, parts. My thing is my reluctance to experience/view the death of anything. And yet I eat meat, fish, vegetables.
We don’t hunt. When we fish, we use barb-less hooks and throw what we’ve caught back into the water.
This may have started–this aversion to viewing death–when I was expected to pay homage to my dead grandmother during her wake–or ‘viewing.’ What I ‘viewed’ wasn’t my Goggie, it didn’t even look like my Goggie!
I know my food and my life is full of death, but do I have to look at it?
Well, first, every living thing dies, so don’t be pre-occupied with the obvious. There are those who say that death isn’t the end, but the beginning.
No, you don’t have to look at it. Do you really want to know what is in that hotdog? How about those “chicken” nuggets? The point is that we are rapidly running out of resources and space to produce “traditional” sources of protein and are moving toward “parts is parts”. And given our options, why not insects? I understand the squeamish factor, but as the article mentioned, the insects can be reduced to a protein powder which can be added to almost any food. If we look at biological mass, Insects are a greater source than any of the animal world. It isn’t really a question of what, but when.
Perhaps insects can be the feed stock for the lab-grown meats industry or some combination of the two. It just might be that the locust swarms in Africa will be a blessing instead of a curse. With another 2 billion people to feed within a hundred years, we’d better come up with an ingenius way to have that sirloin steak. That it might have started out as mealy worms will be irrelevent.
You aren’t alone, lizbeth. Very few people are comfortable with physically having to dispatch and prepare any animal as food. But if that is true, then we have to begin addressing the ways to provide humanity with adequate sources of protein. I find such articles as in the link fascinating because there are actually people attempting to address these issues before a crisis occurs. Today, we go to the grocery for all our meat resources, but that is becoming more tenuous as time passes.
Don’t worry. You won’t have to eat mealy worm anything. You and I will be gone before it becomes a common reality. So enjoy that steak, the bacon, and the wild-caught sockeye salmon. mmmmmm… bacon… 
Hey if it looks like steak, tastes like steak, it is steak. My stomach and tastebuds count not
my ears if someone tells me what I am actually eating. A worm in any other shape is food.
Going vegetarian is easier then you would think…