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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)!

Courtesy: Instagram@tmeis55

 
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A delicacy? Not my type of snack, but to each his own I say.
 
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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.
 
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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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