Should we make room for worms on our dinner plate?

(Lisa Brown for NPR)
In southern Venezuela, the Ye’kuana people gather them from the mud around streams or dig them up from the floor of the highland forest. They’re gutted and boiled and eaten — or smoked and sold at prices three times that of other smoked meats.
What is this lucrative, forageable fare?
Earthworms.
“These edible worms are as much a part of the food supply as chicken is [in the U.S.],” says Darna Dufour, a professor of anthropology at the University