Insect farming could be the future of the meat industryInsects offer farmers an appetizing, cheaper alternative for their animals to traditional animal feedBy David Fickling / Bloomberg OpinionNo dystopian picture of a climate-ruined planet is complete until you have been put off your lunch. It Is hardly surprising, then, if we are regularly promised a future of Blade Runner-style protein farms, where insect larvae are bred en masse for human consumption. If anything, the most likely future for insect farming is one where it accelerates humanity’s growing appetite for poultry and mammal flesh, rather than reducing it. Indeed, insect farming would be having a much easier time of things right now if previous attempts to solve the protein deficit had not led to disaster. Horrible food is such a sci-fi staple because people are fussy eaters — one reason that insect farming so far is mostly serving the needs of grub-eating pets, as Bloomberg News reported last month.

Source: Taipei Times March 08, 2024 17:06 UTC