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Bugs finding their way to American diet─── 10:47 Sun, 19 Apr 2015
Boston - They hop. They crawl. They squirm. And they're crawling onto American dinner plates.
Associated Press reports an increasing number of "entopreneurs" are launching businesses to feed a growing appetite for crickets, mealworms and other edible insects.
These upstarts are trying to persuade more Americans to eat bugs, which can be produced with less land, food and water than other sources of animal protein.
The United Nations has been promoting edible insects as a way to improve nutrition, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and create jobs in insect production.
At least 2 billion people worldwide already eat insects as part of their diet, according to the 2013 report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
But it could be a tough sell for Westerners who are more likely to squash bugs than savor them.
Associated Press
