Insect farming may mean we eat more meat, not less

Insect farming may mean we eat more meat, not less
Horrible food is such a sci-fi staple because people are fussy eaters. (Image: Bloomberg)
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By David FicklingNo dystopian picture of a climate-ruined planet is complete until you’ve been put off your lunch.Whether it’s the grubs farmed by Dave Bautista in Blade Runner: 2049 or Charlton Heston in Soylent Green yelling that food is being made from “people”, there are few things that provoke as visceral a reaction as the prospect that ecological disaster might force you to eat something gross.It’s hardly surprising, then, if we’re regularly promised a future of Blade Runner-style protein farms, where i...

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