Shrimps of the Sky?

(Brussels, Belgium) To save the environment and remedy food shortages, the European Union is offering €3 million ($4 million) research grant for promoting the eating of insects. The EU seeks research on the safety of eating bugs.

Professor Marcel Dicke, leading a team at Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, which is applying for the research grant, said: ''By 2020, you will be buying insects in supermarkets. We will be amazed that in 2011 people didn't think it was going to happen.



Bugs and cukes
''We have already seen the introduction of eggplants, sushi, things people never ate here. I think it will start with ground-up insects in sauces and burgers. Grinding them up will make them look more palatable.''

He said bugs were biologically similar to shellfish and that flying insects should be regarded as ''shrimps of the sky''.

Just think, if the geniuses at the European Union get their way, roach coaches may soon be selling actual roaches.