There are lots of reasons to eat insects. Will we ever overcome the ‘yuck’ factor?The Spinoff Daily, Wednesday August 28
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Shanti Mathias: “‘I am completely certain,’ I declared to my colleagues, ‘that if people had to kill the animals they ate, there would be much less meat eaten in the world.’ Everyone nodded agreeably; no one offered to put the locusts in the work freezer on my behalf. I had wanted to write about the locusts because insects have been the “next big thing” in food for at least the last decade. It’s been pointed out, again and again and again, that insects could be an excellent, nutritious source of farmed protein. In 2019, Bex de Prospo wrote an article for The Spinoff about closing Anteater, her edible bug business: ‘Maybe in five years, New Zealand will be ready for an edible insect revolution and we’ll have delicious bug burgers on our supermarket shelves.’ Five years later, this vision hasn’t come to pass.”
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There are lots of reasons to eat insects. Will we ever overcome the ‘yuck’ factor?
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