Ancient DNA indicates that humans’ ability and willingness to eat insects may have depended strongly on geography.

EU allows insects to be sold as food: Latest update on Entomophagy: Dried Yellow mealworm would now be sold as a food item in Europe. The European Commission has approved the sale of the ...

The UN Food and Agricuture Organisation has just published a report on the promotion of entomophagy - the consumption of insects as food. It is a practice that has been around for millenia. Artistotle ...

In recent years, human population growth, coupled with the climate crisis, environmental pressures, and current production and consumption patterns, has driven the search for alternative food sources.

A plate of edible fried insects as sold at a roadside stall in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Photograph: Mar Photographics / Alamy/Alamy Last year, a report from the Food and Agricultural ...

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How about crunching into some spicy food made of roasted insects? If your reaction to this is ‘Something new? Let me try it’, you could well end up being a champion evangelist in the world’s fight ...

Would you like flies with that? Like two billion people across the world, we all need to develop the insect-eating bug. At least, that's what the UN thinks. An insect diet is better for the ...