Food of the Future

We need to eat more bugs.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations makes a compelling case that insects are key to our future food security. Insects are chock-full of protein, good fats, calcium, iron, and zinc — making them viable alternatives to chicken, pig, and cow meat. Bugs are also much easier on the environment.

Much of the world has already discovered this. Eighty percent of nations, from Southeast Asia to Latin America, already consume more than 1,900 different insect species. Fried locusts and grasshoppers, for example, are extremely popular street foods in Thailand. The Western world has been the only holdout, but that is perhaps starting to change.

Restaurants in New York and other major cities are featuring items such as grasshopper tacos. Meanwhile, Tiny Farms, Bitty Foods, and Don Bugito are three startups in San Francisco betting on bugs. Tiny Farms offers open-source farm kits encouraging individuals and businesses to raise their own insects, Bitty Foods makes baked goods using flour made of ground-up crickets, and Don Bugito sells flavorful cooked insects in snack-size packages.

These startups are leading the way in putting insects on your plate

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[TIGERZYK]

How about scaling the production of insects to feed our poultry birds (e.g. chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, quails and patridges) and certain species of edible fishes ( e.g. Salmons, Trouts, Anchiovis, Tilapias, Carps, etc.) before reaching human being's platter since they are fed a lot of grains which are a source of methane emissions.

[mushnoodle]

I'd buy more insect based foods if they weren't so expensive locally.

[neilsenouci]

like si ta prof d'anglais te fais voire ça

[angelicacoles]

ew tgis scares the shit outta me because what we are eatting now isnt even real food lkke they say too be its just processed and artifical flavored drinks

[JumpCutProYT]

DUDE, salted, baked crickets are AMAZE-BALLS. I crave them, but have no idea where to get them!! They taste like roasted peanuts, but with that tasty kinda-burnt flavor

[Slayr.]

Imagine dipping that cookie in milk.

(x.x)

[senpaichrisuwu]

everyone else had balls to try it except for the

[hgyag]

I think it is very disgusting as food where wide choices food are available for consumption alternatively.

Before kissing please check whether your loved one also loved to consume insects.

mismatch cause regret.

[austindukes]

Do you want parasites? Because that's how you get parasites

[dashin]

Put the bugs on a taco. People will eat it.

[konekasu]

Its really not that disgusting these bugs are clean. And probably the future of chips