I literally have a wheat allergy. Should we ban all wheat products or slap big warning labels on everything? Or is it enough for those allergic to make sure they don't eat what triggers their allergy? Like with every other allergy?
Sure, include "chitin" in the list of allergens on the ingredients section, like we do with all other allergens. More than that's unnecessary.
You've never eaten wild-caught fish? Hell, the
entire meat industry, going back to the beginning of agriculture, exists so that livestock can eat the things we
won't or
can't eat and turn that material into something we
can eat (meat, in short). Why should it matter what the insects ate? What
matters is if they're edible themselves, now, and whether they carry any particular diseases or toxins, which we'd have determined in figuring out whether they're edible.
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Seriously, wheat's a frickin' allergen, dude. And most non-gluten-free pasta and breads
are made from wheat.
This is why, here in Canada at least, all food labels have too look like this;
It's either gotta list it in the ingredients directly or in a "Contains:" list at the end. Legal requirement. Trivial to implement. I have no idea if the USA has a similar requirement, but even if they didn't, a ton of these companies ship to both so they're already meeting Canadian standards on this.