Eh, there’s some things that carry a stigma. Roaches are garbage dwellers, and it’s hard to shake that, even if the ones used to make the “milk” are rigidly contained and fed.

People tend to think of insect foods as “free range”, where someone just scoops a bunch up, even though that’s far from the truth. Any of the insects used for human consumption can’t be free range because they just don’t stay that close together in the wild. You can’t farm bugs the way you can chickens, letting them roam and taking what you need.

You have to farm them in containers, feeding them with something that’s generally going to be at least as clean as chicken feed. Not necessarily because doing otherwise is gross, but because you can’t risk losing your entire stock because you let a pathogen into them via bad food practices. And that’s true even when you’re farming the bugs as pet food of fish bait.

That being said, I’d pass on roach anything. I’ve smelled roaches that were being raised as pet food. No way am I putting that in my mouth. Even crickets smell better, and they tend to be funky. Strangely, mealworms smell less, but taste worse than crickets. But the smell of roaches is bad, not just strong the way crickets are. Well, bad to me at least, that’s a subjective thing. Smell is usually a very big part of perceived taste, and nothing that bad smelling is going to taste good.