Published online 2019 Jul 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219303
PMCID: PMC6613697
PMID: 31283777
The prevalence of parasitic species was determined for every insect species.
Parasitic developmental forms were detected in 244 (81.33%) out of 300 (100%) examined insect farms.
....and in 91 (30.33%) cases, parasites were potentially pathogenic for humans.
During the research in individual farms, we observed unethical practices of individual breeders, such as feeding insects with animal feces from a pet shop, feeding insects with corpses of smaller animals, or feeding insects with moldy food and even raw meat.
In our study, Cryptosporidium spp. were detected in the digestive tract and other body parts of all evaluated insect species. In our opinion, insects are an underestimated vector of Cryptosporidium spp., and they significantly contribute to the spread of these parasites.
In this context, the drive to make food out of crickets is ghastly because it will transmit unknown amounts of such microorganisms. And there are already food products out that use cricket meal for which we do not know to what extent it has been sterilized.
A parasitological evaluation of edible insects and their role in the transmission of parasitic diseases to humans and animals
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6613697/
PLoS One. 2019; 14(7): e0219303.
Published online 2019 Jul 8. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219303
PMCID: PMC6613697
PMID: 31283777
In this context, the drive to make food out of crickets is ghastly because it will transmit unknown amounts of such microorganisms. And there are already food products out that use cricket meal for which we do not know to what extent it has been sterilized.
Just wait until PETA starts making secret undercover videos of how crickets get treated.