First things first, I am not even going to get into a Bear Grilles vs. Les Stroud.  WWIII would break out!    Both guys do a pretty good job of shedding some much needed light on survival skills.  And even though Les Stroud prefers bugs over wild game, he’s showing the audience that food is available — even if it has 6 legs. 

The guy cannot even catch a fish. He makes survival look grudgingly painful as he feeds on insects surrounded by a landscape that everyone knows provides plenty of small game, fish, even larger game… Instead of showing people how to make deadfalls, or how to track game, and survive he feeds on bugs, his survival advice would leave the average joe dead in a week. Most times Les cant wait to get out of the bush after a few days, what sort of message does that send to would be survivors who may not have that option?

Bear Grilles is far superior ;D

As unappealing as it sounds, in a survival situation, those ants may mean the difference between life and death.  Boil the ants first to remove the poisons. 

In Les Stoud’s book: Survive! Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere — Alive, he discusses how he almost exclusively lived off of scorpions the entire time (he pulled the stinger off of course) he was in the desert.  The point is, in a life or death situation we must get rid of our plate frights and do what is needed to keep us healthy enough to find other means of food.

Chris if you are interested, here is some nutritional data on some different edible insects.  Unfortunately, ants were not mentioned in this post, but the protein amounts in the mentioned insects is off the charts!