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The biggest problem with eating insects isn’t the “ew” factor
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2870" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22445822/insect-farming-crickets-mealworm-ethics" target="_blank"><strong>The biggest problem with eating insects isn’t the “ew” factor - Vox</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Can insects become a big part of humanity’s diet? Should they?</strong></p><p></p><p>When I was in college, a girl who lived in my dorm was an evangelist for an unlikely cause: the potential of insects as food. She was really, really passionate about bugs as an ethical, environmentally friendly source of protein, in the way that driven undergrads can be really, really passionate about quixotic causes.</p><p></p><p>At the time I laughed it off. They’re bugs! No one will want to eat bugs, right? The joke was on me: A few years later, she and her business partner <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2izWyNnKSg" target="_blank">went on <em>Shark Tank</em></a> and received a $100,000 investment from Mark Cuban, and now her company, <a href="https://eatchirps.com/" target="_blank">Chirps Chips</a>, sells cricket-based chips around the world.</p><p></p><p>My classmate was ahead of the curve. As humans gradually realize we need to cut back on traditional meat consumption for the sake of the planet, <a href="https://time.com/5942290/eat-insects-save-planet/" target="_blank">eating bugs</a> — primarily crickets and mealworms — has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/eating-insects-entomophagy.html" target="_blank">become a buzzy, green</a> alternative.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2870, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22445822/insect-farming-crickets-mealworm-ethics'][B]The biggest problem with eating insects isn’t the “ew” factor - Vox[/B][/URL] [B] Can insects become a big part of humanity’s diet? Should they?[/B] When I was in college, a girl who lived in my dorm was an evangelist for an unlikely cause: the potential of insects as food. She was really, really passionate about bugs as an ethical, environmentally friendly source of protein, in the way that driven undergrads can be really, really passionate about quixotic causes. At the time I laughed it off. They’re bugs! No one will want to eat bugs, right? The joke was on me: A few years later, she and her business partner [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2izWyNnKSg']went on [I]Shark Tank[/I][/URL] and received a $100,000 investment from Mark Cuban, and now her company, [URL='https://eatchirps.com/']Chirps Chips[/URL], sells cricket-based chips around the world. My classmate was ahead of the curve. As humans gradually realize we need to cut back on traditional meat consumption for the sake of the planet, [URL='https://time.com/5942290/eat-insects-save-planet/']eating bugs[/URL] — primarily crickets and mealworms — has [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/science/eating-insects-entomophagy.html']become a buzzy, green[/URL] alternative. [/QUOTE]
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