Sentence examples for insect consumption from inspiring English sources
Insect consumption is in our cultural heritage.
The negative attitude seems to be on the rise even in cultures in which eating insects used to feel natural; rates of insect consumption are falling.
Hot from the Australian sun, fat from too few ribbons cut, our celebrities waddled in waiting to revive their souls (and, ostensibly, their careers) through ritual humiliation, hunger and insect consumption.
"No other study had ever measured the effects of bats' insect consumption in a natural forest," said Dr. Kalka, who had been among the first to realize the importance of bats in controlling insects on plants, after he observed them with night vision cameras.
"One of the major, if not the major impediments to large scale increases of human insect consumption, is the strong rejection of insects as food by most of the world's population," writes Paul Rozin in a forthcoming paper, Determinants of Willingness to Eat Insects in the USA and India, to be published in the nascent Journal of Insects as Food and Feed.
Ten grams of feed produces one gram of beef or three grams of pork, but it can yield nine grams of edible insect meat, according to Arnold van Huis, an entomologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands who has been studying entomophagy, or insect consumption, since the mid-90's.
What the researchers found was that bats accounted for a large part of the insect consumptions, especially during the wet season in summer, when bats reproduce and mother bats have to eat prodigiously to nurse their offspring.
In the UK, though, we still have the idea of insect-consumption as being a grim challenge on programmes such as I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
In the long term, though, they're more interested in raising insects for human consumption.
One of the few suppliers of insects for human consumption in the UK is Paul Cook, whose business Osgrow is based in Bristol.
It is currently legal in the US to sell whole insects for human consumption if they are raised for that purpose and if the scientific name is printed on the packaging.
