His stupid T-shirts fulled with a lot of insects must be a token of his love for them. Anyway, Marcel Dicke , a professor of Entomology highly recommends us to eat insects instead of mammals. Some of the reasons are below.
1.Mammals are quiet like us, so we can easily share some diseases with them. On the other hand, insects are so distantly related from us that this doesn't happen. I think they are safer than mammals.
2.Growing up mammals costs a lot. For instance, getting 1 kg beef requires us almost 10 kg of feed. By contrast, with same amount of feed, we can get 9 kilograms of locust meat. It sounds really reasonable.
1.Mammals are quiet like us, so we can easily share some diseases with them. On the other hand, insects are so distantly related from us that this doesn't happen. I think they are safer than mammals.
2.Growing up mammals costs a lot. For instance, getting 1 kg beef requires us almost 10 kg of feed. By contrast, with same amount of feed, we can get 9 kilograms of locust meat. It sounds really reasonable.
3.Most of the waste is manure, which emit ammonia and greenhouse gas. Needless to say, it is not kind to our environment. Meanwhile, when it comes to producing insects, the amount of muck out of them is much less. Furthermore insects' muck gives out much less ammonia and fewer greenhouse gases.
4.Insects meet is full of nutrition. Where calorie is concerned, 1 kilogram of grasshoppers has the same amount of calories as 10 hot dogs, or six Big Macs.
In the midst of fear for food crisis, this idea sounds truly helpful. However how can we solve the problem ---severe prejudice against insects? Almost all of us have common mind-sets like that insects are dirty and gross and they can't be food for civilized people. Then it would be tough to change them. Hence I think it might not be until we severely suffer from shortage of food that we earnestly start to try them.
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