Man Dies After Live Roach-Eating Contest: Is Eating Insects Dangerous?

All of that to win a freaking python? How sad.. in many ways.

Imagine being in heaven:

Person A: How did you all die???????
Person B: Heart failure.
Person C: Sky diving.
Person D: Making love to my hubby.
(aaaaaw)
Person E: Kidneys.
Person F: Car accident.
Person G: Eating cockroaches so I can win a snake.

Africans ate bugs for centuries

No. It depends what insects what you eat though, just like you don't eat poisonous fish, you don't eat poisonous insects. Many many people of the world eat insects.

Good for him. That was plain stupid. How can you feel sorry for a fool like that?

Apparently, yes.

Cockroaches are very filthy creatures. No telling what kinds of bacteria and germs he ingested when he ate those things.

On a side note, and I'm not making light or fun of this man's death because any untimely death is unfortunate. But you don't see Black people dying like this. Bungee jumping, Rock and mountain climbing, messing bears, lions, tigers, snakes, and all kinds of exotic wild animals, sky diving, etc... I mean you just don't see Black people senselessly testing fate with their lives over some cheap thrill or adrenaline rush. As LL Cool J said in the movie Deep Blue Sea... "We got enough ways to die".

Uh, crack...
Google Harlem tiger in apartment
White people just have more resources and need for adventure, adventure that a day in any hood might offer and black people die all the time there. So lay off whitey thrills and foolish deaths, im a cracker, won't catch me on a mountain, jumping off a bridge or living with some killer creature snake whatever, just goes to show there's stupid on both sides of the fence. A dream fulfilled that man may be stupid by their character and not by the color of their skin ha

No, dude really. Now I'm not saying people tempting fate for no apparent reason other than seeking a thrill doesn't happen all around the rainbow. But it's just fact! I'm Jewish, and pretty much like Black people we've got too many other ways to die than to push the envelope for fun. For every one "Harlem Tiger" there are hundreds of "Travis the Chimpanzee" or person dies while rock or mountain climbing, bungee jumping, sky diving, roof surfing, etc... Now don't get me wrong pal, our differences including skin color is what I love about my human race. Like my wife, I had no idea she'd be a future Ivy league'er and financial guru. It was her voluptuous frame, dark skin, beautiful face, full lips... (I'm sure you get it) is what initially attracted me to her. There were many differences as well as similarities we appreciated. If it was taken as a put down, I apologize if it came off that way, but it wasn't.

There is a reason why we cook meat and fish. If it was cooked, then I don't think it's so dangerous, but I still wouldn't eat one.

Edward Archbold (rest his soul) was an idiot, plain and simple...who, just WHO eats cockroaches? What irony...'Cockroach Dies of Cockroach Overdose'

Depends on what actually killed him.

I will take a guess and say that it was due to the fact that he was overextending his gut. People have died from other eating contests as well, not just roaches.

And it's also disgusting as heck!!!

Poeople all over the world have eaten insects to survive for centuries.

Now there's a contest with no winners...

To much of of anything will kill you. Water , milk, hot dogs.

Many culture eat insects to survive.

Willing eating live roaches when not facing starvation is just plain dumb.

Darwin!

Very silly. The roach could have been full of raid, with a raid proof immune system. what a waste of life.

Not even a cat knows when a mouse has been poisoned.......

I may be wrong but I think this one is a no-brainer!

I say yes.
And as evidence to support this opinion, I offer Edward Archbold.
Archbold eats dozens of roaches.
Archbold drops dead moments later.

It was either that or the tremendous amount of crack he had to smoke so he could eat dozens of cockroaches.

yes who doesnt know that

but I've heard theyr good protein...

Legumes contain about one half the amino acids necessary to form protein...rice about the other half...combine the two and you get, pound-for-pound, more protein potential than a pound of hamburger; I'll go with a plate of beans and rice before I would a bowl of cockroaches.

...there's a reason there are things that are not considered food. It's called POISON. Roaches carry disease and toxins, just like some plants. Sorry for his family, but at 32yo he should have known better...

and stupid

Not cleaned, raw ............don't think I would want to eat any ?? Other cultures ate them and still do !! What made the roaches. Kill him?? Did he one he get pesticide poisoning of some sort ?? Maybe it was just his time to go. ??

and dumb,stupid,and brainless.

it's kinda cruel to the insect actually, to be torn apart like that maybe still alive by the time it hits your stomach acid.....that would suck

I have no sympathy for a cockroach. I seriously believe they have no value to our ecology and the whole world should be dipped in Gentrol to make the species extinct. That should be our goal as human beings on this Earth: eliminate the cockroach.

Nukes won't do it, but we're smarter than that. Except for guys like Edward Archbold.

I bury those cockroaches!!
F a roach, they do this stuff on fear factor too so the suits must have cleared it but still, I'll bury those cockroaches!

You have to remember that whatever an animal eats will remain a part of it. We are what we eat.
Insects eat a wide variety of things ranging from defecate to decayed meat, other insects, poisonous plants, and more. They are adapted to eating those things for their survival, and they also carry parasites.
Furthermore, we subject insect to all kinds of poisons constantly which makes them even more toxic to consume.
Putting all that aside insects can be raised in a sterile habitat to be used for specific purposes related to consumption if a person truly feels the need to (I wouldn't). Flies are raised in sterile environments so that their larvae may be used to consume dead matter off of peoples wounds, so it's not completely unheard of.
In this instance a cockroach is one of the vilest, foul and filthy creatures in the animal kingdom, and humans are not designed with the ability to consume them or fight off the many bacteria they carry. Furthermore, the heartiness of the cockroach allows it to live on in spite of being crushed decapitated, and ripped apart. Their flailing, gnawing limbs would not be very kind to a humans stomach.
There are too many reasons not to eat insects, and roaches would probably be at the top of that list of least edible insects of all.

AND stupid. Everyone knows you have to cook them first!!!

And the part I like next is pulling off the legs and sucking the meat out. Mmmmm. Yummy!

AND save the wishbone for later!!!!

Entire cultures around the world eat insects as a staple of their diet. It's not the bugs.....

However, worldwide, being stupid can win you a Darwin award.

Many cultures eat insects as a regular part of their diets, including large beetles, roaches, flies, ants, and really anything that is slower than you can run. All in all people will eat almost anything, even the deadly poisonous pufferfish, if they get the chance.

and moronic unless required for protein in your diet.....so is goldfish swallowing (some of whom I'm sure died during it's hay day in the 20's on college campus)...so if it cleans up the gene pool a little perhaps it's not all bad..

How funny, I posted this same question, (no photo tho) about a week or so ago...
Cockroaches are not toxic I guess, but other enzymes in their bodies to digest their food, don't agree with us...and the crazy pet store was giving a python as the grand prize...in a state that is having a debilitating eco system snake problem in the everglades and waterways...how dumb is that...