I disagree wholeheartedly with that. Chard isn't my favorite green, and I haven't grown it for years, but we are growing it this year. I planted fava beans a few years in a row trying to persuade my wife they were limas, as she loves lima beans. We can't grow limas here, or okra, as the season is too cool, so I was trying a substitute that did grow here. I was never a fan of limas as I had only ever eaten them from a can, but when we grew our own in North Carolina, they were wonderful! It was like an entirely different vegetable. Watermelon doesn't really grow here for the same reason, but I occasionally try to do it for the novelty. Even cantaloupes/muskmelons are difficult to get to grow in this environment, but I have managed that a couple times. If that lady is going to grow only okra and watermelons, she couldn't live here.
I don't eat either. Personal preference, like not eating dandelions or raccoons. Just enjoyed her approach to veggies she didn't like.
We do wild food dinners and one time, several years ago, a woman brought a cake that was about 1/3 cricket flour. It did not taste bad once you got past the knowledge of the ingredients and tried it. But... The price of cattle is getting insane. Of course burning them up in 'wild fires', selling packing plants and farms to Chinese...meat will be unaffordable to normal people in short order.
I had a friend who would dry earthworms in her oven and break them into small pieces for the crunch in chocolate chip cookies. Her children and guests enjoyed her cookies, many never realizing they were eating worms. Our sons at a Scout jamboree in Yukon Territory caught grasshoppers, toasted them,and dipped them in melted Hershey bars. Soon all the Scout groups were doing it, knowing full well what the were eating. I really don't have a trouble with bugs as food as long as it is my idea not someone else's.
As said before- not new, we have been eating them for long time. Try not to think about it .. I read article today that confirms this -again and They intend to start adding more. Yummy? We wonder why things do not taste like they use to...um