Hypothetical: A Portuguese designer creates a food source from primary ingredients that are in abundant global supply. It’s a high protein powder. It’s good for you and good for the environment. Do you eat it?
Here’s the catch: this superfood is made from the paste of ground-up dung beetles and crickets.
Here’s the other catch: this isn’t a hypothetical.
A Portuguese designer, Susan Soares, is using 3D printing technology to make insects more palatable.
There is a wholly rational argument for eating creepy-crawlies. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization believes bug eating is the right strategy to adopt; as the world’s population grows, a new food source is required, and bugs are already squirming around on every continent and in every climate. It makes sense to embrace entomophagy, the practice of raising insects as food, on a global scale.
Read more: Edible Bug Treats: 3D Printer Susan Soares Cricket Candy | TIME.com http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/05/3d-printing-company-makes-edible-cricket-and-dung-beetle-treats/#ixzz2tvzZa0hJ
