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GIANT LOCUSTS being sold at a market in Saudi Arabia as Food

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Now THAT’S a CRUNCHY snack!Footage shows GIANT LOCUSTS being sold at a market in Saudi Arabia. They're reportedly brought from Africa via the Red Sea. One bag costs 50 Saudi riyals (US$13.50)!

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A delicacy? Not my type of snack, but to each his own I say.
 
Young ones have no wing eat meat and are Haram
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Mature ones ,have wing and eat vegetables and are halal.
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The young locusts are Haram but the mature ones are not.
What kind of meat is on a locust? My heart skips a beat when people eat batair (partridge). I have eaten ants accidently and can understand why there is ant chutney. Don judge me.
 
Prophet Muhammad saws ate them in military campaigns and encouraged Muslims to eat them as well. There are authentic hadith about it.

It also serves a practical purpose. Locusts come in plagues which devour all plant life in a given area, causing famine. Therefore, catching and eating locusts reduces famine.

Today most Arabs view them as a healthy, protein-rich food and consume them as a delicacy.
 
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