The Good Life – May-June 2018

ON THE COVER // DONALD CAREY
Indian walking sticks for a display. I
fed them romaine lettuce. I’d take
out the outer leaves, wash it and feed
them. It would kill my walking sticks.
It didn’t matter how well I washed
the lettuce or what brand I bought.
Once I chose organic, they were fine.
That was over a six-month period, so
it wasn’t an isolated incident. There’s
something in that lettuce they didn’t
like. I had to go organic.”
When Carey compares how most
Americans and his international
friends purchase produce, there is a
definite contrast in what they choose
to take home.
“I have friends from Europe, and
they’ll pick up an apple out of the
grocery store that’s blemished or
has a hole or a worm in it. They
cut the hole out and eat the apple.
In the United States, we have zero
tolerance for that,” Carey said. “I
once worked in a private industry,
and some of the chemicals used to
control insects on apples are very
nasty. It’s kind of scary. You’re killing
a living organism. It’s much smaller,
but I also am a living organism.”
Hidden Protein
Scorpions, like spiders, are
arachnids. Scorpions have two
venom glands that produce venom
used in hunting and self defense.
Scorpions do not have bones
instead they have an exoskeleton
made of chitin, which is similar to
the shell of a shrimp.
As flour replacements continue to
become more unusual, insects like
crickets are being touted as proteinpacked
gifts of nature. However, there
are plenty of other insects to choose
from, too, such as cockroaches, and
they’re undoubtedly in the type of
flour you already buy. In fact, you
get an extra bit of protein in your
packaged foods every day.
“We eat insects all the time,” Carey
said. “If you take a pound of ground
coffee, put it in a gallon of water and
add a cup of sugar (sugar makes
things float), shake it up and let it
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