If the cows have been exclusively grass fed during their whole life and born from grass fed mothers as well, then the flies eating these cowpats, would be fine...
The main problem I see is flies are fond of dog shit, and dogs are fed all kinds of junk. No wonder dog shit dreadfully stinks!
By the way, I had my first batch of bee brood yesterday. I had eaten it only once before and it was coming out from a fridge, nicely conditioned in a neat plastic box.
This time the beekeeper had just left it for me in the open on an old wooden box in front of his gate.
It looked like scrap and when I saw it I thought:
“Whoah, all those larvae, it’s so disgusting… anyway I finally got it after all these enquiries and driving, I’ve got to proceed, here, right now! Close my eyes and crunch into it!” It was not bad, and I ate the wax along. I was in a village’s street, front of houses and perhaps that’s partly why I dared not to spit the wax. Maybe I also dared not to eat the larvae without the wax and realized too late that this wax didn’t taste good. It took me some time to understand that the thing should be chewed like a chewing gum to extract all the crunched larvae, which have a juicy and sweet taste, after which the wax should be spat. That’s what I finally did.
So, if you happen to get some bee brood, you’ll know directly that the tasty stuff is the larvae and not the wax! When I came home and put the stuff in my fridge, two larvae had fallen off in the cardboard box that I used to transport it in my car. I wasn’t disgusted anymore, so I ate them. Sweet! Hopefully I’ll be able now to eat other kinds of larvae without being repulsed by an irrational disgust…
