Promoting edible insects in Japan
Interview with Shoichi Uchiyama, founder of Insect Cuisine How did you get interested in edible insects issues? I was born in Nagano Prefecture, where entomophagy is popular even now. When I was a child, insects were used to cook. In autumn, rice grasshopper is a very popular seasonal food for us. I have not had […]
A special lecture on edible insects
Wednesday 22nd of february I attended a special lecture on edible insects. It is a lecture composing an evening course organized by Wageningen University only once every two years: “Insects and Society” The course can be followed not only by the students of Wageningen, but also by external public. Is is infact, a way to […]
Norfeed: the future in animal nutrition
Interview with Sèlim El Amouri, Marketing&Communication Norfeed Can you tell us the story of the company? The Nor-Feed concept was born in Denmark, at the end of the 80’s, with the vision that synthetic growth promoters used in animal nutrition would be questioned in the future and efficient alternatives would then have to be offered […]
The reducetarian solution
Brian Kateman coined the term “Reducetarian”—a person who is deliberately reducing his or her consumption of meat—and a global movement was born. In this book, Kateman, the founder of the Reducetarian Foundation, presents more than 70 original essays from influential thinkers on how the simple act of cutting 10% or more of the meat from […]
LagunaLab: insects in an integrated farming system
Interview with Alberto Franco, founder of LagunaLab Tell us about LagunaLab and how you got involved in the edible insects world LagunaLab is a project from Cimi S.r.l., a company born in order to rear freshwater shrimps (astropotamobius pallipes). After 2014 all the production died because of the arrive of the Louisiana Red Shrimp (Procambarus […]