Insect farming means we are going to eat more meat, not less

Not everyone sees this future as a grim one – indeed, for some, it looks more like a utopia. 

The most likely future for insect farming is one where it accelerates humanity’s growing appetite for poultry and mammal flesh, says the writer. PHOTO: ST FILE
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No dystopian picture of a climate-ruined planet is complete until you have been put off your lunch.

Whether it is 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.

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