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Insects did it first
Dr. Gregory Paulson co-author of the book “Insects did it first” (co-authored by entomologist Eric Eaton),shares with us all kinds of mind blowing insects did it first facts. Dr. Paulson tells us stories of how insects were first to do things like bungee jumping, chemical warfare, parasailing, home air conditioning systems, scuba, vampires and more. […]
Edible insects and human evolution
Interview with Julie Lesnik, authoress of “Edible insects and human evolution” Hi Julie, tell us a little about yourself and your interest in edible insects I am a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA. I totally stumbled into studying edible insects! While working on my PhD […]
Farming crickets in Italy
Interview with Davide Storino and Luca Costamagna founders of DL Novel Food Tell us how did you get in the field of edible bugs and what is the project for your business? We began to be interest toward field of edible bugs one years ago, we was surprised by wide capability and solutions that this […]
Future Proteins Summit
Concern over future food and nutritional security is rapidly rising on the global agenda amidst studies showing crop yields are far from increasing at the rates needed to meet projected demands for 2050. It is estimated 60% more food will be required by mid-century to feed a projected 9.6 or so billion people, assuming a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Paul Vantomme: il mio pensionamento? La FAO non ha rinnovato il mio incarico
Intervista a Paul Vantomme Quale era la percezione media del mondo occidentale nei confronti degli insetti commestibili quando ha iniziato a lavorare con la FAO? Quando ho iniziato a lavorare sugli insetti commestibili presso la FAO dal 2000 in poi (Studio sul ruolo di bruchi commestibili in Africa Centrale), la reazione mondo occidentale era di […]
