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guave06 t1_j6kfoza wrote

I’m not eating cockroaches no matter what and I sure as hell hope my descendants don’t have to resort to that.

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Grand-Mix-870 t1_j6lncn4 wrote

If you eat bread or anything with flour you are eating roaches/flour beetles/grain beetles/meal moths/and more. They are ground up (milled) bleached, and shipped.

Most mills fumigate their facility twice a year. Some of them are over 100 years old and still have wooden parts.

You're already eating them. You're just ignorant to it.

Every insect type has a maximum number of heads/parts/eggs allowed per kg of packaged product. It is not just concentration of insect contamination.

For example you can have up to 33 drosophila eggs, 88 heads, and a percentage of parts I currently don't recall per kg of raisins. Since the eggs are fumigated they are food safe as they will not hatch. That is one species. There are similar numbers per pest.

That being said, a single rodent striated hair will fail an entire pallet. That pallet gets opened and redistributed to the line and repackaged, just like the product shoveled off the floor.

Your food is clean and safe. Obviously. You've been eating it a long time. Being grossed out about eating bugs is just silky since you've been doing it your whole life.

Technically, you have a bunch living in your eyebrows and pores.

Buy a usb microscope and look!

If you really want a treat use it to look at your tap water!

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guave06 t1_j6o2feq wrote

Lol I’m not freaking out about some cross contamination. Chewing into a cockroach corpse is just out of the question for me but to each their own

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