How soon do you think such a question will be relatively common? We're approaching a world where food - or what we now call food - will be getting more scarce.
Last year the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization published a laudatory report about insects’ potential to help stabilize the global food supply. I'm seeing more and more articles about insects as our food. Clearly raising and shipping insects should be cheaper than dealing with cows. They take just six to eight weeks to reach maturity and, because they don’t require much food, water or land and produce low levels of greenhouse gas emissions, they have a smaller carbon footprint.
People are starting companies to produce cricket flour. Megan Miller's company, Bitty Foods, mills crickets and blends them with cassava and coconut. Then sells the flour online, along with cookies baked with the flour. The price is steep, about $16 per pound compared to $1 for today's flour. She is marketing to those follow a so-called Paleo Diet, which shuns carbohydrates and relies on meat, fruits and vegetables, and also trying to convince gluten-free eaters.
Will our children be dining out on crickets and other insects?
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