I recently read 'Hugh Fearlessly Eats It All', an anthology of mr Whittingstalls' newspaper articles over the years. He mentions a meeting with an entrepreneur in the south of England with dead serious plans to cultivate maggots as a form of cheap edible protein for the food processing industry. Taking the view that once separated from the rotten meat the maggots will become 'clean', he is said to have gone on top demonstrate his faith in the venture by whizzing a jug of maggots up in a blender and frying them up like an omelette, which he proceeded to eat.
It makes logical sense I suppose, and if true would possibly prove valuable in a survival situation, but to me that speaks volumes about the awful commercialisation of the 'food' 'we' are now sold by the profiteers and the gulf that has appeared between good, honest enjoyable food and what marketing would have us believe.
