In just 120 years our global population has grown fivefold, from 1.5 billion in 1900 to 7.5 billion today. By 2050, we’re on track to exceed nine billion people. It’s no secret that our food resources are under massive pressure with demand for meat at an all-time high – worldwide production has tripled in the last 40 years.
Whether it’s the colossal volumes of energy and water used for rearing and processing livestock, or the acres of rainforest cleared to generate cattle pasture (40 per cent of Central America’s jungle – so far), the harmful effects on the natural world are becoming irreversible.
The solution? Insects, apparently. Reviled as vermin by much of the West, they’ve been part of human diets for millennia (the practice is mentioned in the Bible as well…
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Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2018