eating insects could help fight world
hunger so why don't Americans eat bugs
two billion people worldwide regularly
eat books that's more than a quarter of
the entire population of Earth and while
there are a certain amount of insect
parts legally allowed in our processed
foods not many Americans are eating them
on purpose but a handful of people are
trying to change that including jarred
golden his company in Tomo farms started
selling insects for human consumption
after the UN released a paper on the
individual and global benefits of eating
bugs they sell things like cricket
protein powder and flour whole roasted
crickets and even seasoned cricket
snacks so to produce the same amount of
protein crickets take way less water
than it does to produce that protein
from beef much less land and there's a
lot less methane gas produced from the
crickets than other traditional forms of
livestock pound-for-pound crickets have
almost twice as much protein as beef and
some edible insects have even more there
is a way for us to provide our
population with a safe and eventually
cost-effective method of getting protein
and protein is key by 2050 there will be
9 billion hungry mouths on earth and the
already high demand for livestock
products is expected to double from what
it was 20 years ago but not only is beef
expensive cows couldn't care less about
the environment manure contaminates
water supplies and emits ammonia that
harms ecosystems and 70% of previously
forested land in the Amazon is now
pasture bugs don't contaminate or
require nearly as much water or use that
much land so what's the problem
Americans don't eat bugs because
Americans don't eat bugs
do you like Lobster I do I love Lobster
years ago that was the garbage the
cockroaches of the ocean and all of a
sudden that hidden but not little food
the key to transforming lobster into a
low
food was rebranding it so who says
insects are any different we tried to
change minds on a smaller scale by
feeding crickets to our team we got our
hands on some of these bags of cricket
powder we're gonna add it to muffins and
pancakes see how that tastes
see if this really is a superfood how
many forgets there on the bag I think
one of these small bags is about a
thousand a thousand crickets yet for
four ounces yeah that's a lot of I'm
just trying to be right which what is
the least grow oh they're all foods
they're all like edible pieces of food
people around the world eat crickets all
the time we've actually eaten a lot of
bugs whether it was like traveling we
tried out this entire tasting menu and
every single dish had a bug from ants to
it giant Japanese Hornet we don't ever
see a day that insect protein will
completely replace meat protein that's
not the goal here the goal is to give
people a choice that is healthy and
nutritious as well as sustainable
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