Eeeeeewww.

If this is “more sustainable,” then I am officially opposed to sustainability.

When it comes to eating insects, 3-year-old Josephine Crawford has a reptilian role model.

“Elliot at my school likes meal worms, too,” Josephine said, referring to the Thackston School’s bearded dragon, as she pushed one of the crunchy bugs into her mouth.

Josephine, her mother and grandmother all came out to a presentation titled “Science Cafe: Edible Bugs” at Ijams Nature Center on Tuesday evening.

Jennifer Moore, the education director at Ijams, promoted entomophagy (en-toe-moff-a-gee), or bug eating, as a more sustainable alternative to eating larger animals like cows and pigs.

According to Moore, insects provide more protein per square acre of land used to raise them than do the larger animals, and some scientists believe that in a few decades, wide-scale big-animal meat consumption may no longer be feasible.

Uh huh. Are those the same scientists who “believed” that “in a few decades” the world would be devastated by overpopulation?

Look, lady, I’ll admit: the worm-eating thing has a certain shock-entertainment value. But you start talking about “bug farming,” and I wave you off like the nutjob you are.

Pic by Saul Young, Knoxville News Sentinel. And a hat tip to Instapundit. Two TrogloLanches in a single day – don’t let it go to your head, Glenn.