Edible Crickets - Eat Grub (20g)

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It ought to be obvious to anyone with an appetite that the way we eat is not sustainable – and that something fundamental will have to shift if we do not want to end up with half the world obese and the other half under water. “Civilisation is in crisis,” was the verdict of the EAT-Lancet international commission into the global food chain in 2019, which contained a dire warning of 200,000 years of human history culminating in ecological disaster. Modern industrial agriculture, extractive capitalism, the profit motive, governments cowering before Big Food and our own greedy western appetites all must take a share of the blame. Raheem, D.; Carrascosa, C.; Oluwole, O.B.; Nieuwland, M.; Saraiva, A.; Millán, R.; Raposo, A. Traditional consumption of and rearing edible insects in Africa, Asia and Europe. Crit. Rev. Food Sci. Nutr. 2019, 59, 2169–2188. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Mekuria, S.A.; Kinyuru, J.N.; Mokua, B.K.; Tenagashaw, M.W. Nutritional quality and safety of complementary foods developed from blends of staple grains and honey bee larvae ( Apis mellifera). Int. J. Food Sci. 2021, 2021, 5581585. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] van Huis/Tomberlin (2017). Insects As Food and Feed: From Production to Consumption. Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-9086862962. EU Commission (2 June 2021): Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/882 of 1 June 2021 authorising the placing on the market of dried Tenebrio molitor larva as a novel food under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470.

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