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 […]
Farming crickets in Canada
Interview to Jarrod Goldin, Co-founder of Entomo Farms Yours is a family business. What inspired you and made you start this very particular activity? My two brothers, Darren and Ryan, have been farming insects for the reptile trade for 10 years; I was a chiropractor with a big interest in health. I’ve also always wanted […]
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 […]
Alimentazione del futuro: possiamo pensare agli insetti?
Sorry, this entry is available in italian only Oct 13, 2016Entomofago
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 Oct 7, 2016Entomofago
