Entomophagy 564
Italian design for domestic edible insects breeding
Francesco Faccin, designer You’ve designed and realized a terrarium for edible insects domestic breeding, how you got the idea? The project “Home breeding” was born because I was invited to participate to the exhibition “The selective affinities” in Triennale (Milan) by Aldo Colonetti; the theme was food (for Expo). For some time I’ve been interested in […]
Little Herds: the first american no-profit dedicated to edible insects
Interview with Robert Nathan Allen, Founder and Director of Little Herds Tell us about Little Herds project: when and how did you decide to start an edible insects business? In March of 2012, my mother sent me a video about eating insects, meant as a joke. It talked about the nutrition and sustainability of edible insects; […]
Italbugs announces its entry in the Feed and Pet Food market
Italbugs inaugurates 2016 with great operative changes and new international networking relationships. The ever-expanding research project now focuses also in the Feed and Pet Food market, and the team will be directed by Dr. Martina Costacurta (Animal Feed Science & Technology), Green-Biotech specialist at the Technological Pole of Pordenone.
BY-entO: a survey on acceptance of insects-based pets feed
During the PetFestival (at Piacenza Expo) the italian company BY-entO has made this really interesting survey on consumers’ acceptance of insects-based pets feed. You can download the full document here (pdf format, text in italian): BY-entO Survey
Edible insects and minilivestock: the food of the future
Here below an interview with Prof. Maurizio Guido Paoletti, Professor at the Department of Biology at the University of Padua, entomophagy expert and author of “Ecological implication of Minilivestock”, a book that analyzes the use of small animals as nutritious food. How the research of proteins from alternative sources like edible insects, frogs or rodents […]
Meeting “Edible insects: technical-scientific and regulatory aspects”
When: February, 5 – 2016 Where: Brescia, Auditorium Angelo Pecorelli Organized by: Fondazione Iniziative Zooprofilattiche e Zootecniche di Brescia With: Paul Vantomme (FAO), Goumperis Tilemachos (EFSA), Arnold Van Huis (Università di Wageninghen), Francesco Defilippo (Ist. Zooprofiltattico della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna)
Edible insects recipes? Here are some cookbooks
All these edible insects recipes cookbooks are available on Amazon
