September 30, 2024

Eat This Podcast: Crunch Time

Insects are not going to save us

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If only we could get over our squeamishness, insects can save the planet, banish hunger, protect the rainforests and reduce the climate catastrophe. At least, that’s what article after article tell us as they sing the praises of feeding our food waste to insects like the larvae of the black soldier fly.

There’s just one fly in the ointment, so to speak. Most of the food that insects are fed isn’t waste at all.

Just one of the reasons why Dustin Crummett, executive director of the Insect Institute, says that eating insects will not save the planet.

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