Scientists Want You to Add More Insects to Your Diet

By 2050, there will be 9 billion people on our planet. While that number can exponentially increase, the amount of animal-yielding farmland in the world is pretty fixed.

It does not take a scientist to determine we are reaching an unsustainable demand for animal protein.

It does take a scientist, however, to develop a viable solution, which is exactly what a group of researchers did at this week’s IFT15: Where Science Feeds Innovation science of food conference.

The answer: add insects to your diet – especially generous sprinklings of cricket powder.

Replacing livestock protein with that of critters has the potential to drastically alleviate the global problem of childhood malnutrition, and can easily be incorporated into recipes for pancakes, brownies, falafel, tofu scramble and pasta sauces.

All Things Bugs, a U.S.-based online shop specializing in finely milled whole cricket powder, makes a variety of compelling entomological arguments for adjusting your diet to be more insect-rich.

Whatever your current opinion on eating bugs, it sure as hell beats drinking Soylent every meal of the day.

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