will people eat bugs
This week, Food Dive launched a new Food Startups directory that features a wide range of innovative companies in in ingredients, packaging, processing and retail. Among them, you will notice a small niche group emerging that wants to serve up insects to a new generation of consumers.
These startups are not crazy.
A May United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report called for more edible insect farming, with estimates pointing to creepy-crawlies becoming a necessary supplement to Western diets by 2050 due to sustainability issues. Needless to say, interest in human insect consumption, known as entomophagy, has risen in recent months.