Interviews 241
Goterra: insects feed made in Australia
Interview with Olympia Yarger, Goterra founder Tell us a little about you and your project Goterra Goterra is an insect farm-feed company based in Canberra Australia. We are developing commercial Black Soldier Fly farming practices. What are the products you are working on? Currently we’re focusing on artificial lighting and have developed a prototype lighting […]
The future of insects-based fishfeed industry
Interview with Dr. Sadasivam Kaushik, aquaculture and fish nutrition expert at French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) What’s the aquaculture state-of-the-art in Europe? Europe as a whole (including Norway) produces more than 2 million tons of fish. This figure does not include shellfish production which is also part of Aquaculture. Aquaculture science and sectorial […]
Tom Cooks: if a bug come to change things
Interview with Tommaso Gagliardi, aka Tom Cooks Tell us who you are and what you do I was tired of the life I had as a programmer in Amsterdam and I decided to leave everything to go to Lisbon on foot across Spain and Portugal, along the road to Santiago de Compostela and Fatima. I […]
AFFIA has its (italian) President
A short talk with Massimo Reverberi (Bugsolutely), recently elected as AFFIA President You were recently elected as AFFIA President. What are your priorities? There is a lot of work to be done. It is a new industry, and there is the need for recognition from government agencies (FDA, customs, Health Departments, Governments). Standards like the […]
Three girls fighting malnutrition in Guatemala
Interview with Gabrielle Wimer, MealFlour cofounder There’s an interesting story behind every relation between a westener and edible insects. Tell us yours All three of us co-founders are adventurous eaters and have tried insects in different places: Gabrielle ate crickets when she visited Vietnam, Elizabeth first ate insects in Arizona where she tried a scorpion […]
BugeaterFoods: insects-based protein shakes
Interview with Kelly Sturek, BugeaterFoods founder Tell us shortly about the idea behind the company and why you decided to invest in the edible insects business I think the important thing for me was that we could actually build this. We can make products, we can make them taste good and we can sell them. […]
