There’s also been research into using insect protein as a meat substitute that’s a lot less “weighty” than plant protein. Insects, pound for pound, require a lot less land, a lot less feed, and there’s been some success in recombining them into other forms of meat, like Beyond Meat has been doing for plant proteins.
EU approved few insects for consumption as a novelty food and will need to pass defined standards and inspections.
But conservatives, even in US used that as an argument that they will make us feed bugs.
There’s also been research into using insect protein as a meat substitute that’s a lot less “weighty” than plant protein. Insects, pound for pound, require a lot less land, a lot less feed, and there’s been some success in recombining them into other forms of meat, like Beyond Meat has been doing for plant proteins.