Insects as food is making headlines again. An article released by The Daily Mail in late January discussed how the European Union is spending 3 million Euro to explore insect protein as a food supplements, as well as using insects to combat food shortages. We decided to re-post our podcast about entomophagy (the eating of insects) in order to start the discussion here on Talking Science!

Listen now:

Entomophagy is a growing trend here in the U.S. but let’s face it – for the majority, the “ick” factor prevails. In this episode of Bug Bytes, we take a bite out of the main reason people aren’t cool with bugs as food and highlight some of the people working to change their minds. (original post Friday 2011)

Cool Links:

David George Gordon, The Bug Chef: http://davidgeorgegordon.com/
Daniella Martin: http://girlmeetsbug.com/
Rosanna Yau: http://minilivestock.org/

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Bug Bytes is a collaboration between Solpugid Productions and Texas A&M University's Department of Entomology.You can subscribe to the Bug Bytes podcast on iTunes.