Our friend Anders Engstrom over at Bug Burger in Sweden ran a great interview with Peter de Batist, who has been advocating entomophagy (the human practice of eating insects) for decades. He also believes that insects are a natural part of the human diet, and there are 6 things that we added to our diet over the millennia which are not good.
Find out what those 6 things are (one of them is dairy and another is refined sugar) and more in this fascinating interview…
I realized very soon that composing such a thing as an ‘Australopithecus diet’, was not finding things that would be no longer available, but rather eliminating the ‘modern’ industrialized foods that were added during the last 15.000 years. What I try to explain is that food is a matter of instinct. And there are six types of food that were added to the natural food which the hominid species was designed for by instinct. Our better ‘neocortex’ taught us that we can do such things. They permitted our species to grow to uncountable numbers and we were told that these new foods were very beneficial for our health.
In my Australopithecus diet I used them (insects) on a nearly daily basis. A problem was also that this type of food was considered to be a raw- diet. So, in that year I myself learned that raw insects tasted even better than the cooked ones. But such an idea is surely harder to sell!
