0 the practice of humans eating insects as food:
The argument for entomophagy is compelling; we have run out of cultivable land and there is no rational reason not to eat insects.
As the world population heads towards nine billion, entomophagy could be a solution to some of the world's food issues.
Entomophagy's supporters acknowledge that Westerners will take some persuading to ingest insects.
Mealworm cookies are an excellent way to introduce people to entomophagy.
The total number of ethnic groups recorded to practice entomophagy is around 3,000.
The program investigates the nutritive and environmental aspects of entomophagy, and harvesting of weaver ants, is studied.
Several analyses have found entomophagy to be a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional animal livestocking.
Less certain, however, is the mechanism of implementing entomophagy: in general, the behavior is cited as predation, but for some species may be ectoparasitoids.
