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An Ohio businessman thinks he’s found a way to get America to eat bugs.
It’s an unlikely IDEA slated to get FDA approval by next year.
Erin Burnett reports.
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And the $1 million Hult Prize for the best start-up idea that secures food for undernourished slum-dwellers goes to… a group of five students from Montreal, Canada, who want to grow, process and sell edible insects.
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The MBA team remains embroiled in a dispute with Jakub Dzamba over ownership of the idea to help improve access to cheap, nutritious food
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President Clinton challenged business students to solve the global food crisis for $1 million in seed money. The winner? A startup working to get insects into slums. Here are the finalists for the Hult Prize.
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The 6th Protein Summit 2013, which starts tomorrow in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, will address the current food market with a focus on proteins.
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One of the really big challenges facing our world is how to grow more food without using up the globe’s land and water. One company in Ohio says we’ve been ignoring one solution: insects.
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In the fifth video of a five-part series, Rick Berke, a senior editor at The Times, speaks with the restaurant critics about reviewing foods that give them pause.
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Increasing humanization of pets around the world — even in China, a small (but rapidly growing) pet market, 90% of pet owners say their pets are part of the family, according to Mars Petcare China — means rising numbers of pet owners who want and…
"This was seconded by an article in the September issue of Pets International magazine, which says FAO is "encouraging the large-scale raising of insects" and gives pros and cons for their use in petfood. Benefits include a new protein source that could be non-allergenic to dogs and cats, plus the fact that insect protein is already used in foods for birds, fish and reptiles (of course, the natural diets of those animals include insects). Lack of regulation, research on nutritional value and methods for large-scale "farming" of insects comprise potential obstacles to their use as petfood ingredients.
One of the people commenting on the LinkedIn discussion provided a link to an article by Trevor Baker of TheGuardian.com, which focuses on the fact that, while 2 billion people around the world regularly eat insects, one of the main challenges to widespread use ofinsects as food — especially in developed markets — is getting past the "ick" factor; in other words, many people remain squeamish about eating bugs. (Count me in that category.) In most cases, companies promoting insect-based food products in developed markets are going for novelty, not nutrition.
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BETWEEN 15,000 and 20,000 kilograms of barramundi a year and 129,000 herb plants every 28 days are set be produced at a new glasshouse horticulture facility on Sydney’s south west outskirts.
“One aim we have is to produce sustainable food and we are now working with Sydney University to produce a sustainable option by converting food waste into insect protein and then processed into fish food,” Mr Bodlovich said.
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