Tag Archives: insects

I’ve gotten to know a few meal worms in my time—namely, the ones I used to feed to my son’s lizard. I was the only one in my household bold enough to take them out of their containers, pick them up and toss them in the lizard’s dish. Didn’t bother me and I loved watching the lizard happily gobble those guys up. Besides reminding me of how I left the lid of the lizard’s cage off when I went out of town for a week (so sad), all this meal worm talk brings me to a Slate article about how the UN wants us to eat more bugs—it’s the food of the future, not soylent green. The story in Slate:   Over the weekend I read a bit about Rand Paul’s efforts to fundraise off an alleged United Nations plot to confiscate your guns, but they turn out to be up to …