Novel Food 520
Edible insects: home-growing or big industries?
Interview with Katharina Unger, founder of LivinFarms The idea of a domestic edible insects breeding object suggests that you have a very clear vision about the future of human entomophagy. Could you share that idea with us? From the very beginning of this project, my goal was to empower people to grow their own food, […]
Vegetarians, by Roger McGough
Vegetarians are cruel, unthinking people. Everybody knows that a carrot screams when grated. That a peach bleeds when torn apart. Do you believe an orange insensitive to thumbs gouging out its flesh? The tomatoes spill their brains painlessly? Potatoes, skinned alive and boiled, the soil’s little lobsters. Don’t tell me it doesn’t hurt when peas […]
Spacefood, edible insects, italian-style
When you say food you say Italy. It’s inevitable. When talking about spacefood, you’re talking about Italy, again. And it’s italian Argotec, the company chosen by European Space Agency to develop -in the SpaceFood Lab- the food supply program for European astronauts in the ISS (International Space Station). This kind of special food (called “bonus-food”) […]
Store&Restaurants offering edible insects around the world
The Directory of Store&Restaurants offering edible insects around the world is available on BUGSfeed site.
The edible insects companies database
The Maggott Master Blog by Ilkka Taponen offers a database containing the worldwide edible insects companies details.
The multi million dollars destiny of the edible insects industry
Interview with Jason Drew, co-founder of Agriprotein What’s the”vision for the future” behind AgriProtein project? We started our research and pilot production in the tractor shed of my farm in 2009. We then developed partnerships with major foundations as well as universities in seveal countries to further our research into insect meal as a protein […]
Woven: exciting times for edible insects industry in UK
Interview with Matt Anderson, Director of Woven Tell us about Woven Network The idea behind Woven was formulated by Nick Rousseau, now the Managing Director, after having seen in the media the potential insects have as a food of the future. After getting in touch with some of the then current stakeholders in the sector, […]
