FOOD FOR THOUGHT

IN A DECADE, WE’LL ALL BE EATING INSECTS

There’s something missing from your diet. It’s not a rare berry native to a remote corner of the Amazon, or a recently discovered super-leaf with 60 times the antioxidants of green tea. No, it’s something far more primal. It’s a foodstuff that our ancestors have been consuming for aeons. And it represents the second largest biomass on earth. It’s insects.

Before you balk, hear me out. Almost every culture around the world has a bias against certain food groups. The Chinese view cheddar cheese the same way the UK views a scorpion on a stick – that’s to say, with revulsion. Haggis is banned in the US. In India, they won’t touch beef. What’s interesting, however, is that none of these biases are grounded in fact. They’re the result of a few generations of conditioning. What’s more, they can change. Thirty years ago, most of us thought the idea of eating raw fish was disgusting. But then a chef in LA created the California Roll, hiding the