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Bühler: producing and processing larvae in China
A short talk with Andreas Baumann (Expert Protein Value Chain), Bühler AG Recently you’ve started an insect pilot-plant in China, can you tell us more about? We set up the pilot plant with a partner, who grows fly larvae. We installed equipment for processing the fully grown larvae on an industrial scale. The aim is […]
Antonio&Giuseppe Bozzaotra: Insetticommestibili.it
Interview to Bozzaotra twins – Insetticommestibili.it I interviewed Antonio and Giuseppe Bozzaotra, charismatic friulan twins that, near Padua, opened the farm “Edible Insects” in which they are raising many species of insects: crickets, bamboo larvae, silkworms, grasshoppers, beetles, wasps, scorpions and caimans. They have been engaged in this area for years and have been invited […]
Oils from insects: the research in Wageningen
The world of entomophagy isn’t just business, but research and development as well. And the main “shrine” of this research surely is the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands: here worked the main authors of the renowned dossier from FAO, where the ONU agency recommended the adoption of entomophagy to European and North American countries, and […]
Insects are not food for the poor
When we talk about food it’s not just about survival, but also about justice, social equity, distribution, and use of the planetary resources. A planet that belongs to none of us and to everyone at the same time. But once again it seems that this “everyone” is not homogeneous, that there are at least two […]
Global Insect Conference 2018
Here is the video of Global Insect Conference 2018
AFFIA (Asean Food and Feed Insects Association): the first meeting
We talked with Massimo Reverberi, founder of Bugsolutely and one of the promoters of the newborn AFFIA (Asean Food and Feed Insects Association), to get an impression on the work of the first Meeting held in Bangkok. “We had a difficult project start-up, because in Thailand it didn’t take off. So, also to “increase the […]
Entomophagy is an instrument, not only products
Who knows what an inhabitant of Palermo thought after seeing for the first time an Arab eating a qas’at? Or when he saw him combining rice and meat with his own hands to create a little ball? Maybe it was something like: “These Arabs do not even use forks, they eat on the streets with their […]
