Sun-Sentinel reports that the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has requested that Broward County, Florida, site of a recent insect eating contest fatality, ban eating contests and restaurants' eating challenges. update The Great Escape theme park in Queensbury, NY is holding a cockroach eating contest tomorrow.

October 19, 2012 at 10:22 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Fort Lauderdale, Health | Permalink * Comments (3)

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  1. anonymous said

    October 19, 2012 @ 1:49 pm

    guess MLE is gonna stay away from ft. lauderdale for sometime now

  2. ojrifkin said (Registered July 27, 2005)

    October 19, 2012 @ 1:54 pm

    Two MLE contests were held in Broward County in fall 2011: Pompano pickles & Martorano’s meatballs. I have not seen any news about 2012 editions of these contests.

  3. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    October 19, 2012 @ 2:02 pm

    1. I cannot understand PCRM generalizing the ill-fated insect- and worm-eating contest to all CE events in Broward County, as it appears that’s what that group has done. That seems irresponsible in itself, as well as biased against all CE.

    2. The organizers at the Great Escape theme park are demonstrating total insensitivity and under-the-carper-poor judgment with a cockroach-eating contest in the wake of the recent Broward County tragedy.

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