Oftentimes people look for local organically grown meat, fruits, and vegetables to lower their footprint on our planet. If the United Nations advice is taken to heart we might be seeing insects show up at our local groceries. Why would anyone want to eat insects? Insects have supplemented the diets of people from Latin America, Asia, and Africa for ages and like many things can be considered a delicacy. With a rapidly increasing population we need to address how we will feed the masses nutritionally sound food while not compromising our environment. Could insects help accomplish this goal? Insects are rich in minerals and protein and when comparing Pigs to meal worms we see that pigs produce 10-100 times the amount of greenhouse gas as meal worms per kilogram. So if you are cruising down the aisles of the grocery and see a dried bag of crickets, I hope to have saved you from the question of “Why would anyone eat that?”
More information can be found at http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44886#.U3qIdfldWSo
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