There has been a lot of attention focused on the fact that insects are a naturel source of nutrients. In the western countries people consider eating insects disgusting and primitive, but in the south, they see it quite different - they see it as an everyday meal. The attention is caused by the fact that insects are healthy and helpful for the environment. It is not that often that you will find those two qualities side by side. Then why doesn’t the human kind take advantage of it?
Every year the world population increases with at least 70 million people. It is becoming a problem to feed everybody and that results in world hunger. But that will not be our only problem. The oceans are overfished and over 70 % of the land is already used for farming. The climate is changing and diseases are threatening the plants. The environment is getting polluted and the solution to it all are one simple thing, insects.
Who eats insects?
Everybody eats insects every day, according to FDA´s defect levels handbook, there is insect infestation in a lot grocery goods that you buy at the regular store like fruits and beer. So, if people aren’t aware about the ingredients, they will eat it without any complaints. But in the future insects might be the friendliest source to the environment, to protein, compared to other sources such as pigs, cows and sheep. There is forty tons of insects to every human, and that’s is more than enough to feed a human. In the southern parts, insects are a necessary source to minerals and protein. Some places they can´t afford to buy other kinds of meat, so insect is the cheapest and healthiest alternative to meat. By cooking it every day, they precisely know which ants and worms are good and bad ones.
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