Edible Insects
Food Tank: building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters
Interview with Danielle Nierenberg, founder of Food Tank What’s Food Tank and what are its activities? Food Tank highlights stories of hope and success in the food system around the world. Our Vision: Building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Our Values: Educate. Inspire. Advocate. Change. Our Mission: Food Tank is focused on […]
BfR Symposium “Insects as food and feed – Food for the Future”
BfR Symposium “Insects as food and feed – Food for the Future” of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment will address the current state of knowledge about the market relevance, regulatory aspects, nutrients and ingredients, preparation of food and feed based on edible insects but also on acceptance by consumers and potential health risks. 24 […]
When a beetle inspires a story
Interview with M. G. Leonard, author of “Beetle Boy” Can you tell us a bit about the `Beetle Boy’s’ story? The Beetle Boy of the title is Darkus Cuttle, and at the beginning of the book, his father has mysteriously disappeared from an entomology vault at the Natural History Museum in London. He’s sent to […]
Tiny Farms: a network to re-think the edible insects farming
Interview with Daniel Situnayake, founder of Tiny Farms How did you get involved in the edible insects business? Our team was exploring the potential for controlled environment agriculture to reduce the distance between people and their food. We noticed companies starting to design products around edible insects, but the insect supply was very limited. With […]
The edible insects industry needs to meet also a “less-privileged” target
Interview with David Gorge Gordon, The Bug Chef Let’s know about your passion for using edible insects in the kitchen: how did everything start? I became interested in edible insects in the mid-1990s, while researching my book The Compleat Cockroach. Among other things, that book contained brief essays on cockroaches as food and as medicine. […]
Edible insects: how communication overcomes the yuk-factor
Interview to Fabio Verneau and Francesco La Barbera, Professors at the University of Naples You are one of the authors of the recent study “The effect of communication and the implicit associations in the consumption of insects: an experiment in Italy and Denmark.” Can you sum up its content and goals? In recent years researchers have […]