Startups selling chips or protein bars made with crickets tout the environmental advantages of insects compared to raising cows or chickens. But the market for insects as food, while growing, is still ...
In 2018, IKEA’s innovative Space10 lab introduced the Bug Burger, featuring a patty made from a mixture of beetroot, parsnips, potatoes, and mealworms (described as “larval form of a darkling beetle”) ...
ALTHOUGH TWO billion people around the world regularly eat insects, consumers in the West have historically shunned them as a food source. But concerns about the environmental impact of food ...
SINGAPORE — Imagine a day when supermarket aisles stock a large selection of cell-based or plant-based meat while maintaining a limited selection of farmed meat. Some entrepreneurs, such as the ...
Natalie Rubio pushes through the glass revolving doors of Tuft’s Science and Technology Center. Her feet take her on autopilot through the atrium and up a flight of stairs to the culture lab to check ...
The future of environmentally friendly food may rely heavily on lab-grown insect meat, according to a new scientific report. Unlike lab-grown beef, pork, and other traditional meat products, these ...
As livestock farming continues to raise complex questions about sustainability and climate change, some say the future of food is lab-grown meat or veggie burgers that “bleed." But a group of ...
Livestock farming is destroying our planet. It is a major cause of land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration, deforestation -- and of course, climate change.